Included in Karl Ackermann's Best Releases of 2019. Portraits featuring Adalia Tara was born in a coffeehouse in Sedona, Arizona, on a sultry summer evening in 2016. An impromptu coming together of ...

After joining forces as Loyola University jazz studies students seven years ago, the members of Naughty Professor realized they wrote music far more proficiently than words. Thus, they have presented ...

Naughty Professor, the jazz-funk sextet formed by Loyola University jazz studies students in 2010, recently notched a major professional milestone: Their first tour of Europe. After island-hopping in ...

The Birchmere will host an unforgettable evening of smooth, soulful and funky rhythms on Aug. 15, when it welcomes Jazz Funk Soul, featuring three of today’s most influential and accomplished ...

Fusebox Funk is a different band than when it formed in 2001. After years as a jazz/funk instrumental combo, the lineup changed in 2007-08 and its music went in a new direction - rap. The horns and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died. He was 75. Sample died of ...

Ironically, fusion was, on the one hand, largely a concern for jazz participants and observers even though they largely denied its value or any valid connection to "real jazz." On the other hand, ...