Jazz and rock are always borrowing and always inspiring each other. Here are a few rock songs shaped by jazz, where ...

Steely Dan is a perfect example of how jazz shapes rock music. From the 1970s onward, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker infused ...

The Baby Boomer era, a time of profound societal shifts, gifted the world an extraordinary legacy of rock music that ...

Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground was quite a fan of jazz. In fact, he enjoyed the unique perspective of jazz and its freedom. Free-form jazz, specifically, could have easily inspired unique (and ...

The miniresidency “Ms. Ezra Furman Doing What She Wants” returns to The Rockwell on Wednesday and Ja. 8. The obvious question ...

The three musicians who call themselves the Bad Plus don’t look like revolutionaries. Pianist Ethan Iverson, with his carefully trimmed goatee and rectangular-shaped glasses, could easily pass for a ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

Vinyl fans, especially those who love classic rock, jazz and folk, will especially rejoice this year as, in addition to some ...

America in 1969 was nearly as weird as it is today. A seemingly endless war in Southeast Asia, the horrific assassinations of political progressives and creepy Richard Nixon’s presidency cast shadows ...

Rock music is still the most popular music in America — just not among young people. While it is the clear favorite among Americans overall, adults under the age of 30 rank it third, behind hip hop ...

Our guide to pop and rock shows and the best of live jazz happening this weekend and in the week ahead. COLONIZED DREAMS: A MIPSTERZ EVENT at the Knockdown Center (March 9, 6:30 p.m.). Mipsterz, a ...