Funk’s influence is deeply embedded in hip ... as jazz musicians began collaborating with hip-hop artists. In the early ’80s, jazz legend Max Roach worked with hip-hop musicians, and in ...

Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia, offers 15 '80s-era songs ... loads of funk and Moroder-adjacent ...

Guitarists would use complex jazz chords, as well as fast ... effectively disappeared in the technological era of the 80s, funk managed to embrace the synthetic elements, or at least work ...

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk vibraphonist, record producer and composer ... Ayers continued to perform with passion and a smile on his face well into his early 80s. If like many you're mourning ...

Jazz funk is a style of music that grew out of jazz, but brings in elements of soul music and rhythm and blues. While jazz often features a swing beat, jazz funk is backed by a groove rhythm that ...