From watching his father perform with jazz luminaries as a child to producing for hip-hop royalty, Karriem Riggins has spent his life at the intersection of musical worlds. The Detroit native, who ...

The producer, who helped create and expand the sound of countless pioneering hip-hop albums, discusses his technique and place in history in a lost interview ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. D’Angelo on stage at the Brixton Academy in London in 2000 - Independent/Alamy D’Angelo, the American musician who has died of ...

From its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jazz was considered the only true American art form. Its sound is a melting pot of musical influences, incorporating remnants of ragtime, ...

Shadowplay For well over a decade, nine-piece groove machine Nubiyan Twist have been electrifying the UK music scene with their dance inducing combinations of Afrobeat, jazz, hip-hop, soul ...

Last year, the festival earned New Times ’ Best Music Festival award for 2025, a title that naturally raises expectations. Jazz in the Garden still offers one of the most joyful large-scale music ...

Hip-hop artist Akua Naru explores the myriad experiences of Black women through jazz and soul. She is also Harvard University’s Nasir Jones fellow at the Hutchin Center for African and African ...

The Black Radio Experience, an offshoot of the Blue Note Jazz Festival, runs Friday through Sunday at the Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa. Now in its fourth year, the festival highlights Black ...

The final day of Music at the Intersection 2025 wasn’t just a concert, it was a definitive statement. With hip hop serving as the heartbeat of the festival’s closing moments, De La Soul commanded the ...

Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After ...