Jazz and hip-hop share the same cultural lineage in the music culture. Jazz emerged out of many different types of black music such as slave songs, ragtime and the blues. And much like jazz, hip-hop - ...
When fans attend a performance by the Chicago rap stars Common or Kanye West (or, for that matter, the hip-hop princess Beyoncé or the neo-soul crooner Maxwell), they expect certain things: powerful ...
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 ...
From the looks of them, you probably wouldn't peg the four dudes in Toronto-based BadBadNotGood as the group leading a new generation of jazz-drunk hip-hop. But since the band's inception, BBNG have ...
Lo-fi stands for low fidelity. Music that's considered lo-fi falls somewhere along the definition of distorted beats and technical flaws being looped that create a pretty cool unique sound people can ...
Twenty-five years after its release, hindsight reveals one now-dated aspect of Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Volume 1: The front cover refers to its fusion of hip-hop and jazz as “experimental.” In 1993, the ...
Every year, people from around the world pilgrimage to a leafy Harlem brownstone on E. 126th Street in hopes of conjuring history. It was there in 1958 that 57 jazz icons, from Thelonious Monk to ...
Collaborators include Endea Owens, Black Thought, and Cory Henry, to name a few. Juicy J describes the project as his “true art and emotions,” reflecting a personal creative shift. Juicy J is inviting ...
DENVER (CBS4)- Live music returned to Denver's Five Points neighborhood Friday. Several people came to Sonny Lawson Park for First Friday Jazz Hop. The event had to cut its run short in 2020 due to ...