Kendrick Lamar’s much-praised 2012 major label debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, is a shotgun ride through the gang-, gun-, and drug-infested city of fallen angels alongside Denzel Washington’s ...

The Montclair Jazz Fest brought community resources and nearly 12 hours of non-stop music to North Jersey audiences.

Each June, just as the marine layer gives way to early summer sun, a different kind of tide rolls into downtown San Diego, not waves, but the warm, rhythm-soaked tones of smooth jazz. The San Diego ...

Performers such as Frankie Beverly and the Rev. Al Green had fans clapping and dancing. A rainy Sunday couldn’t dampen the spirits of the Hampton Jazz Festival crowd on the closing day of this year’s ...

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 ...

Guitarist David Rogers. Photo by Christopher Briscoe. Listen to a night full of smooth jazz, Brazilian choro and Baroque music played on a keyboard, double bass and guitar. Choro is an instrumental ...

Over the years, Washingtonians have been fortunate to witness with pride the extraordinary number of outstanding jazz groups that have sprung forth from our area. We have another bright star to get ...

Around 8 p.m. on Friday night a respectable crowd had Butler Park, the temporary location for this year’s Urban Music Festival at roughly half capacity. Folk were still making their way in for Kool & ...

Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...