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 ...

Jazz musician Funky Butt Brass Band's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

If you look up "funk" in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, you get the following definition: "A style of black American popular music which developed in the mid-1960s out of soul music. It is ...

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"The Lounge Lizards and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in a Japanese brothel," is how acclaimed U.K. DJ and record-label owner Gilles Peterson has described funky jazz sextuplet Soil & "Pimp" ...

Want wine, live jazz, and plates that hit the spot? Funky Tiger Lagos brings a rustic New York–style bar vibe to Lekki with cocktails, smoky jollof, and nights that stretch till mama calls. Lagos is a ...