DJ Jazzy Jeff says the Grammys' Hip-Hop celebration was one 'for the culture,' and he talks about his new Command Central course.

On “The Sweet Unknown,” James Apollo sets a scene of desert hot days cooled by nights at hole-in-the-wall bars filled with cigarette smoke and femme fatales. This piquant imagery is fashioned from ...

Beloved drummer & band leader Andrew Griffith presents music he heard from his childhood and songs from his father. The Andrew Griffith Ensemble features Andrew Griffith on drums, vocalist Andrea ...

In terms of price, the three-piece Urban Beats kit comes in at a mere £289 at the time of writing. An extremely low price for a brand new drum kit, no doubt, but do bear in mind (especially if ...

OBITUARY Morabo Morojele: The social and political drum beats of the Lesotho jazz musician The jazz drummer, novelist and development scholar died on May 20.

DJ Takuro Yanase’s Ramen Break Beats turned up the volume further with the August 2024 opening of this second offshoot, tucked away under the railway tracks in Nakameguro. At Jazzy Beats, the ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Jazz aficionados in Philadelphia and its suburbs are in for a treat this November as The Jazz Sanctuary presents a series of captivating live performances. This esteemed … ...

Exiled for much of his career, he was acknowledged universally as a pioneer and a leading light of the international free jazz scene.

Mumbai’s jazz enthusiasts are in for a treat as "When Jazz Meets Broken Beats" takes center stage at the NCPA, bringing together some of the finest musicians for an evening of soulful ...

Now a greying 49, Buddy Rich is still the Drum Wonder, still hanging on by the seat of his pants. Only this time around he may have a real grip on something.

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was a defiantly straight talker with a deep grasp of the politics of the music work he devoted his ...