1:15 p.m. March 7, 2025: A previous version of this story said Roy Ayers died Wednesday. He died Tuesday. Roy Ayers, the “King of Neo Soul” who was born and raised on Vernon Avenue just south of ...

When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Jazz lovers, mark your calendars! The City of West Palm Beach is bringing a little jazz into the summer season. Every third Wednesday of the month, the city is hosting, ...

Bassist, singer and composer Esperanza Spalding is a jazz wunderkind. After initially proving her chops with scat vocals and walking bass line, she steadily added punctuations of voices on top of ...

The two-day festival in June will feature performances by Grace Jones, The Isley Brothers, Willow, De La Soul and more.

*“We each are responsible for three songs,” said Grammy nominated Everette Harp (Luther Vandross, Patti Labelle, George Duke), the legendary Contemporary Jazz saxophonist from Houston, Texas, about ...

WELCOME BACK. AND COVERING YOUR COMMUNITY. WEST PALM BEACH’S SOUL IN THE CITY IS RETURNING FOR JAZZ ENTHUSIASTS IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY. HERE TO TELL US ABOUT IT ALL IS ANGELA POLKA. THE MARKETING AND ...

Following a hugely successful 2025 programme, the Royal Albert Hall has unveiled the line-up for its first season of the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - “They” said it would never happen, but it boy-howdy did it. To paraphrase Soul Coughing’s anti-hit “Screenwriter’s Blues,” it was 9 p.m. and we were “lis-ten-ing to Los Angeles” by ...

STEVENS POINT − Jazz Coterie is bringing Los Angeles-based singer and composer Michael Mayo to Wisconsin for a concert in Stevens Point. Mayo, known for his blend of jazz, neo-soul and R&B, will ...

North Sea Jazz Festival 2025 article by Giovanni Guadalupi, published on January 16, 2026 at All About Jazz. Find more Live Review articles ...