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 ...

In the first half of the ’90s, the Bay Area nurtured a burgeoning acid jazz scene, a creative cauldron fueled by vinylphiles rediscovering 1960s organ-driven jazz funk. One of its key players, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz and hip-hop are technically different genres of music ... where we talked to some well-known Bay Area based jazz artists and practitioners about their art and the current state of jazz in this ...

Attending a Jazz Is Dead show is a retrograde blast into a modern music lover’s most resonant corners of nostalgia. You enter a brand new world where art reigns ... jazz and hip-hop and its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The two classically-trained prodigies are well-versed in the finer points of jazz, as much as they are dexterous hip-hop instrumentalists ... and check out the album art and tracklist for Not ...

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 ...