Fela Kuti is renowned as the innovator of Afrobeat, a creative blend of his native West African music, James Brown funk, and big horn jazz rhythms that were meant for more than just jump up dance and ...

Time for a Spring Road Trip! Night Train heads west for some classic and contemporary, hot and cool sounds from the Left Coast. Among the artists featured tonight are Charles Brown, Art Pepper, the ...

“Our theme will be Ode to Funk and we’ll be paying tribute to the legendary jazz musician Horace Silver. “His work with the Jazz Messengers, co-led by Art Blakey, brought a new era to jaz ...

Seared into modern memory, modern art, the music presented on the gloriously massive ... From his early days with Horace Silver and Dreams to the epochal Bitches Brew sessions with Miles Davis to the ...

Kuumbwa’s Spirit of ’75 Series marks the milestone by presenting local artists with longstanding ties to the venue, like San ...

The most perfect of time machines, with no errant destinations and no abrupt landings, The Carnegie Hall Concert transports one to a time when artists took their art seriously ... seminal recording ...

TARPON SPRINGS — O Som Do Jazz will perform in support of Jazz Appreciation Month. The concert will take place on Thursday, ...

The architects of hard bop included pianist Horace Silver and drummer Art Blakey, who co-founded The Jazz Messengers in 1954. When Silver left to pursue a solo career, Blakey took over leadership ...

Chico Hamilton's saxman reacted to Roland Kirk, Charlie Parker, Pee Wee Russell and more, and worried that the modal style ...

This hard bop classic features Art Blakey’s thunderous drumming and a stellar lineup ... This album features some of Horace Silver’s most memorable compositions, blending hard bop with elements of ...

Horace celebrated her defeat before it had occurred ... fluent in nine languages, silver-tongued and charismatic, she has dissolved into a joint creation of the Roman propagandists and the ...