Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

Iconic New Orleans funk pioneers The Meters will reunite for their first show in nearly a decade during Jazz Fest 2026.

When SETI X—the San Francisco-based emcee and recipient of the Pharrell Williams-backed J Dilla Music Tech Grant—told me about a small brick-and-mortar he co-owned with Delrokz, a turntablist and ...

Jazz, blues, classical, funk, pop, soul, bossa nova, gospel, rock, Afrobeat, disco and country. These are just some of the styles of music that tenor saxophone great Houston Person has performed in ...

The Detroitwich Funk Machine brings 70s and 80s funk, jazz-funk and fusion classics to Worcester’s Marr’s Bar, January 22.

“It’s gonna be unapologetic funk. And it’s gonna be energetic. And it’s gonna be a wild ride, lots of high-energy solos and cool ensemble work.” That’s how percussionist Nate Worth describes funk-jazz ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — With a roster of 22 musical groups, headlined by Gary Clark Jr. and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, the Annual Saratoga Jazz Festival will return to the Saratoga Performing ...

North Sea Jazz Festival 2025 article by Giovanni Guadalupi, published on January 16, 2026 at All About Jazz. Find more Live Review articles ...