City Park Jazz, an annual series of free jazz concerts that turns Denver’s marquis green space into the biggest and best ...

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 ...

Roy Ayers, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer of jazz-funk in the 1970s, the uplifting groove and messages of his music exemplified by his best-known track, Everybody Loves the Sunshine; although ...

Cultivating a smooth signature sound that wove lush soul, elastic jazz, and tight funk, Ayers emphasized rhythm and texture, a combination that gave him a handful of crossover R&B hits ...

When Josh Ferrell of MOTHER.FUNK asked Chad Stokes of DISPATCH the best piece of advice he could offer, Chad simply said, "Just give your music out for free to anybody that will listen." And that's ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A weekend of jazz, funk, and electronic music is set to begin. Brighton Dome's venues will host a series of performances featuring UK jazz ...

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk vibraphonist, record producer and composer, whose warm grooves and sun-drenched melodies shaped generations of musicians, has died at the age of 84 following a ...

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk composer, producer, and vibraphonist, died Tuesday, March 4, in New York after a long illness, his family said in a post from his Facebook account.

Vibraphonist Roy Ayers, an influential band leader and pioneering composer and producer of jazz, funk, soul and R&B, has died. Ayers, who is known for the celebrated song “Everybody Loves the ...