Albums like To Pimp a Butterfly and 1999 blend jazz ... hip-hop has enjoyed decades of mainstream success, largely due to groundbreaking artists who have continually pushed the boundaries of music ...

So the Parks photograph was an homage, charged with rivalry, to that earlier art form and a response to the idea that hip-hop was not only “the new jazz,” as the critic Harry Allen had written ...

They did it all with hip-hop as the touchstone for all of the music and art that they create. And this year at Montreal Jazz Festival, they embodied the inescapable force that hip-hop wields in ...

But how is it that hip-hop, an art form that has helped influence so ... Black American music — jazz, blues, rock n’ roll, rhythm & blues, funk — long preceded what would come to be known ...

as the jazz, rock and hip-hop industries had done in generations past. “There’s some people who are just about money and clout. But for a lot of us in this space, it is about community, art ...

James seemed to have a problem with Hip-Hop artists sampling his music since day one. He even got into it with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince over his song “Westchester Lady” for their ...

Hip hop and jazz singer Crystal Clyne Mastosavvas is better known by her stage name, as “Lady Lash.” Both a Kokatha and a Greek woman living in Australia, she was influenced by the two ancient ...

From watching his father perform with jazz luminaries as a child to producing for hip-hop royalty ... Growing up in Detroit where Black art, Black voice are the muscle, the knowledge of self ...

“some hip hop artists are like having another horn in a jazz band. They’re really able to be in the moment and be able to really empathize with you, but using words, and go wherever you want to go.