The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from ...

Larry Carlton has built his career by performing on countless hit records in the 1970s and 1980s and becoming a Grammy winner as a solo act.

Greep’s characters don’t seem so well. One of them rambles about his fantasies of being a brutal military leader to impress a love interest. Another builds a museum of human suffering. They’re almost ...

Ahhh, the 80s. Big hair, big synthesizer sounds and programmed beats. That didn't just happen with pop and rock, some of these trends seeped into contemporary jazz, too. This was the decade when much ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few artists in modern music embody the spirit of innovation quite like Herbie Hancock. From his formative years with Miles Davis to his own trailblazing solo career, Hancock has ...

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*Larry & Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell enjoyed an out-of-nowhere run in the `70s as producers of loosely arranged musical nuggets that felt good, painted in broad strokes lyrically, and became bedrock ...

Fans of Joe Pass, Larry Carlton and John Scofield would do well to check out the Pete Roth Trio with Bill Bruford the next ...

The ambient, Jazz-fusion artist opens up about his musical journey, wellness practices, and how healing was the impetus for ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Veteran saxophonist Rolly Smith acknowledges that when he first started playing in fellow saxman Joe Uzarski’s “avant-fusion” band Space Bar, he found the music really “weird.” ...

He also was a voice actor on 'King of the Hill,' playing a commercial spokesman for Mega Lo Mart, where “shopping feels so good.” By The Associated Press Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck ...

Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by multiple ...