Lawrence instrumental funk-jazz outfit The Yards celebrate their upcoming release Crooked Road Sessions with an exclusive ...
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 ...
Lee Ritenour is a musical talent who approaches jazz as an artist does a canvas. He takes time to explore colorful arrangements within each song he records mixing various degrees of fusion, rock, ...
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 ...
As a Lafayette teenager in the early 1970s, visual artist Francis X. Pavy fell under the spell of pioneering New Orleans funk band the Meters. While still in high school, he saw multiple performances, ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 37 th annual Tri-C JazzFest gets under way on Thursday, June 23, with Tommy LiPuma's Big Birthday Bash at Connor Palace in Playhouse Square. The JazzFest runs Thursday, June 23, ...
FEATURES 25 UNRELEASED AND RARE TRACKS AND MORE THAN THREE AND A HALF HOURS OF NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD COMPOSITIONS, COVERS, AND JAMS FROM 1970 WITH CORE GROUP OF AYNSLEY DUNBAR, DON “SUGARCANE” HARRIS, ...
Saturday night’s Beastie Boys show at the Rosemont Horizon was an exercise in contradiction, much like the band itself. Hurricane, their deejay, opened by doing vocals for a hip-hop project called ...
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