Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1970, DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight was a 16-year-old guitar wunderkind with stars in his eyes. He had the chops; all he needed ...

Three-time Grammy winner and Tony Award-winning performer Dee Dee Bridgewater has turned 76, continuing a music career that has lasted for more than five decades across jazz, funk, R&B, theater and ...

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Vibraphonist and vocalist Roy Ayers to Newark on Thursday, November 16, 2023. Roy Ayers was put on this earth to bring music to the people. The ...

The latest installment in Craft Recordings’ vaunted Jazz Dispensary series puts a special focus on ’70s jazz-funk when fusion and soul/R’n’B broke open how jazz would sound from that point forward and ...