The all-Swedish funk sextet Beat Funktion pays homage to instrumental early 70s funk, groove, soul, disco and afro-beat jazz by playing fresh yet retro-style original compositions. They add a unique ...

Chicago drummer Luke Titus and New York rapper-singer Cisco Swank unite jazz, R&B, and hip-hop on their new album, Some Things Take Time (Sooper). Brief but stimulating, the record feels like a walk ...

This article was originally featured on WXPN's The Key on May 20. In recent years, the beat-making community has grown into a global movement. Once a small, insular guild of folks with specialized ...

UK-based Jazz band with varying line-ups, playing original compositions and covers. Influences include bebop, jazz fusion, free jazz, also Jaco Pastorius, Bird, Coltrane, Art Pepper. This band has ...

Musicians call it "spang-a-lang," for obvious phonetic reasons, and it's so synonymous with jazz, it no longer occurs to us that someone had to invent it. But someone did: a drummer named Kenny Clarke ...