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 ...

If you look up "funk" in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, you get the following definition: "A style of black American popular music which developed in the mid-1960s out of soul music. It is ...

The 40th edition of the Syracuse International Jazz Festival is much like the past 39 editions: Fun, free and with a ...

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The unmistakable sounds of New Orleans will resonate in Mexico City this month as the acclaimed documentary Make It Funky! takes center stage at a special screening hosted by Mexico’s Horizonte 107.9 ...

Somewhere between funk, rock, and R&B, acid jazz is a one-of-a-kind genre that can transport any listener within sound itself. It’s an intoxicating groove, an entangling world that honors and uplifts ...

Fridays will be filled with folk, funk, jazz and more as the Kenan Center presents its free weekly Music In The Gardens ...

If you are looking for Reading’s best kept secret you need go no further than the Railway Arches on Caversham Road. Situated under the arches of the uninspiring railway bridge is The Funky Jazz Club, ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

There have been a lot of words to describe good funk music. Dirty. Gritty. Grimy. When done right, funk should make your face scrunch up, your head nod and your body move in ways even you might not ...