Jazz legends Grant Green and Herbie Hancock took out The Man in Blaxploitation films The Final Comedown and The Spook Who Sat ...

While it is generally agreed that the birthplace of jazz is New Orleans and that it was first performed there in the early 1900s, it’s not the only music style to come out of the Crescent City.

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 ...

*Donald Harrison has spent decades proving that music does not have to stay inside traditional boundaries. The ...