From watching his father perform with jazz luminaries as a child to producing for hip-hop royalty, Karriem Riggins has spent his life at the intersection of musical worlds. The Detroit native, who ...

Jazz thrives in cities with history: New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago. These cities are also places where you’d expect a new festival to pop up and have success, taking full advantage of a ...

I should’ve known that something was in the air when the first songs I heard at the biggest jazz music festival in the world were by Outkast, Arrested Development, Common, and A Tribe Called Quest. As ...

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 ...

Can we talk about hip-hop? Can we talk about jazz? Modern jazz musicians who came up during the ‘90s are not only versed in Coltrane, Miles and Monk, but are also influenced by producers like Pete ...

Hip-Hop's birthday has been officially identified as August 11, 1973 and many initiatives marking its fiftieth anniversary are already under way. Should you catch yourself wondering—as a jazz ...

From its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jazz was considered the only true American art form. Its sound is a melting pot of musical influences, incorporating remnants of ragtime, ...

The Beast plays Casbah Thursday, July 14, at 8 p.m. LiLa, Aden, Carlitta Durand and Jocelyn Ellis open, and tickets are $7 in advance and $9 at the door. The Beast emcee Pierce Freelon remembers a ...

Jazz and hip-hop are technically different genres of music, but for bassist and composer Giulio Xavier Cetto, the connection between the two is indivisible. “My main goal is to support as a bass ...

Separated by decades but bound by spirit, both Black-American art forms thrive on improvisation. Their fusion is conversation, intergenerational and unforced. There’s a scene in The Get Down, ...

As two-time Grammy Award winner Fantastic Negrito continues to work his acclaimed record, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?, his latest offering finds the celebrated contemporary blues artist collaborating ...

The year 2000 had its fair share of pivotal Hip-Hop releases with the likes of Ghostface Killah, Beanie Sigel, Madlib as Quasiomoto, Dilated Peoples, Eminem, Planet Asia and Rasco as the Cali Agents ...