The six-piece ensemble Audio Angel & Her Good Intentions play a blend of original songs and re-imagined classics with a style that she has dubbed “the live mixtape.” ...

Included in Karl Ackermann's Best Releases of 2019. Portraits featuring Adalia Tara was born in a coffeehouse in Sedona, Arizona, on a sultry summer evening in 2016. An impromptu coming together of ...

After joining forces as Loyola University jazz studies students seven years ago, the members of Naughty Professor realized they wrote music far more proficiently than words. Thus, they have presented ...

Jazz-funk supergroup Nitecap has released its debut album, Things of That Nature, a 10-track set of original compositions that harkens on the contemporary synth-laden soul with jazz-funk and fusion ...

Naughty Professor, the jazz-funk sextet formed by Loyola University jazz studies students in 2010, recently notched a major professional milestone: Their first tour of Europe. After island-hopping in ...

Fusebox Funk is a different band than when it formed in 2001. After years as a jazz/funk instrumental combo, the lineup changed in 2007-08 and its music went in a new direction - rap. The horns and ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died. He was 75. Sample died of ...