Jazz also had a hand in shaping hip-hop to what the genre has become today, though its impact wasn’t fully realized until the 80s, when artists began rapping over jazz melodies. Drawing ...

PARIS and WASHINGTON and ABU DHABI, UAE, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 edition of International Jazz Day will be ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Roy Ayers, a legendary jazz vibraphonist, keyboardist, composer and vocalist known for his spacy ... 9 on what has become the Top R&B/Hip-hop chart in 1977 and contained the hit ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — Roy Ayers, a legendary jazz vibraphonist ... 9 on what has become the Top R&B/Hip-hop chart in 1977 and contained the hit “Running Away,” which peaked at No.

Roy Ayers, a Jazz Legend Who Influenced Hip-Hop and R&B Musicians, Dies at 84 NEW YORK (AP) — Roy Ayers, a legendary jazz vibraphonist, keyboardist, composer and vocalist known for his spacy ...

FILE - Roy Ayers performs at the 2Pac 40th Birthday Concert Celebration on Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File) ...

Ayers and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest in 2020 on the second album in the “Jazz Is Dead” series, which showcases frequently sampled jazz musicians ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Roy Ayers, a legendary jazz vibraphonist, keyboardist, composer and vocalist known for his spacy, funky 1976 hit “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” that has been sampled by such ...

Brighton Dome will host three nights of live music from March 27–29, featuring jazz, funk, hip-hop, and electronic performances by artists ...