The historical celebration includes a capsule that will also feature contributions from Mitchell & Ness. How do you feel about the appropriation of your music by the hip-hop generation? I think it’s a ...

Next July, the Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival will return for its 17 th annual edition to Moseley Park and Pool, an idyllic setting located just a couple of miles south of Birmingham city centre.

Idris Muhammad, whose drumming crossed over several musical styles including funk, jazz, and rhythm and blues, died Tuesday (July 29). He was 74. Muhammad's death was confirmed by close friend Dan ...

Kendrick Lamar’s much-praised 2012 major label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, is a shotgun ride through the gang-, gun-, and drug-infested city of fallen angels alongside Denzel Washington’s ...

Albums like To Pimp a Butterfly and 1999 blend jazz harmonies with sharp lyricism, proving the genre’s deep connection. Hip-hop may keep evolving, but funk and jazz remain its heartbeat, fueling its ...

Mike Clark gained worldwide recognition as one of America’s foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock in the early seventies. His incisive playing on Hancock’s “Actual Proof” ...