Jazz fusion emerged in the late 1960s and ’70s as musicians began blending jazz improvisation with the rhythms, textures, and ...

TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters” album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from the big name fusion bands of the time. In 1969, Miles Davis released his ...

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, ...

Brian Culbertson has scored hit singles on just about every Billboard chart there is. Culbertson, an Illinois-born pianist, bandleader and songwriter who performs at the Charleston Music Hall on Oct.

For years, it was the subgenre that dare not speak its name. Once considered the cutting edge of modern jazz, fusion brought a new sense of commercial vitality to the music. As epitomized by such ...

If you look up "funk" in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, you get the following definition: "A style of black American popular music which developed in the mid-1960s out of soul music. It is ...

Stop if you’ve heard this before. Some refugees from bands join together to form an ad hoc “super group” that sounds pretty much like the outfits they came from. OK, so WRD’s model is as clichéd as ...

NOLA Funk Fest presents special local music collaborations, including Master P backed by the Soul Rebels, Galactic joined by ...

It’s a huge week for live music in New Orleans, with shows at the Caesars Superdome and Smoothie King Center, a funk festival ...

Jazz trumpeter and band leader Donald Byrd, whose clean, elegant phrasing made his reputation in the 1950s and ‘60s before he began experimenting in the ‘70s and ‘80s with jazz-funk-R&B fusions on ...

St. Philip’s Friends of Music is wrapping up its concert series, “Summer Sizzlers: Cool Hot Jazz for the Summer,” over the next few weeks. First up on Sunday, Aug. 20, is the high-octane fusion of ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...