(ThyBlackMan.com) Roy Ayers, the vibraphonist, composer, and all-around musical genius, left an indelible mark on the world of jazz-funk, soul, and R&B. His music, with its hypnotic grooves and rich ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When discussing the great architects of modern R&B, funk, and soul, The Commodores deserve a place near the top of the conversation. Emerging in the early 1970s from Tuskegee, ...

Funk and jazz fusion band Ghost-Note plays the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Saturday, Dec. 20. The band released their ...

Many of the most prominent exponents of melding jazz with soul, funk and hip-hop have been trumpeters. Even in the late 1970s, Chuck Mangione was already taking soul-jazz and moving it further into an ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

Pleasure will be headlining the 52nd Annual Oregon Juneteenth Festival on Saturday, June 15, 2024, at Lillis-Alvin’s Park. This show will be the band’s first performance this year and will also mark ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...