Announcing Smoke Jazz Club’s April Line-up Featuring A Special Jim Rotondi Tribute Concert, The Return Of Legendary Artists George Cables, Vincent Herring, And More. Posted in “Performance / Tour” ...

The February gig at the Plas Hotel saw the band dive into a collection of classics, each piece reimagined with a modern touch. Opening with "After You've Gone," the band set the t ...

Bob Thiele had already spent three decades in the music business recording legendary jazz and pop artists when he started a ...

The 27th edition of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, launching on April 3, will feature a lineup of 34 feature ...

Beyond elated to get to share our notes and comments about Jam Cruise 21, the conjunction of love, friendship, music, cooperation, and joy.

From longtime rocker Adam Sherman finding his “Gratitude” to producer MO the Great inviting us for “Drinks of Hope” to Naomi Westwater's journey of "Cycle & Change," WBUR music writer Noah Schaffer ...

and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown’s dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton’s Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group ...

By the 30s, she was working as a freelance arranger, writing charts for Earl Hines, Benny Goodman, and, later, Duke ... funk and fusion in the 70s. A classically-trained pianist, Lewis fused jazz ...

Cultivating a smooth signature sound that wove lush soul, elastic jazz, and tight funk, Ayers emphasized rhythm and texture, a combination that gave him a handful of crossover R&B hits ...

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk vibraphonist, record producer and composer, whose warm grooves and sun-drenched melodies shaped generations of musicians, has died at the age of 84 following a ...