When SETI X—the San Francisco-based emcee and recipient of the Pharrell Williams-backed J Dilla Music Tech Grant—told me about a small brick-and-mortar he co-owned with Delrokz, a turntablist and ...

In the ’60s, Manhattan hosted some of the greatest jazz music ever performed: Count Basie at Birdland, Thad Jones at the Village Vanguard, Miles Davis anywhere and everywhere. But back then Brian ...

Few are the folks who could cast a literal shadow over the iconic Hammond B-3 organ, nicknamed “the Beast” by many of the jazz musicians who have helmed the hefty 425-pound instrument. But Reuben ...

Nestled under the tree canopy of downtown Sacramento, Delta Breeze Records is the janky little used record store for the heads who collect classic rock, soul, modern funk and disco, and jazz. While ...

Blue Moods' Force & Grace is the third in a series of Posi-Tone releases in which music of under-recognized jazz composers is given a fair shake by bands comprised of some of the label's leading ...

In the early 1970s, Alvin Batiste, the cherished jazz clarinetist, composer and music educator who founded the Jazz Institute at Southern University, spearheaded the production of two albums that ...

Roy Ayers, the “King of Neo Soul” who was born and raised on Vernon Avenue just south of downtown Los Angeles and saw more than 60 of his songs sampled by a who’s who of hip-hop and soul artists, died ...

It was a crisis in domestic diplomacy for Turkey’s Ambassador to the U.S., Mehmet Munir Ertegun. His sons Nesuhi and Ahmet had conceived a most un-Turkish enthusiasm for caz and yaniturku — Turkish ...

Shaw's daughter, Marla Bradshaw, announced the news on Friday Michael Putland/Getty Marlena Shaw, best known for her 1969 hit “California Soul,” died on Friday Jan. 19. Shaw’s daughter, Marla Bradshaw ...