Few artists have had the same cultural impact as jazz master Miles Davis, but if anyone could rival his revolutionary power, it was pianist Duke Ellington.

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

Primarily through direct sampling, hip-hop music provides a blatant tapestry of historical information that the listener can ...

A one-time-only performance of the George Gray/Sharif Kales Quintet called Jazz: A Music of the Spirit is on Sunday, November 9 at 4:40 p.m. at the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn.

This weekend, that rhythm will find its pulse at Kat & Kin Coffee Roasters, where Maarten Visser and Aravind Murali bring ...

Fifty years of hip-hop were celebrated Friday as the 2023 Funk Fest returned for a fifth year to downtown Louisville. The first act of the night, Big Daddy Kane, had just taken the stage as music ...

Many of music’s most visionary and uncompromising artists end up working in shadow; disillusioned with the systems of selling and the mundanity of the mainstream, disciples instead to the evolution of ...

There aren't many musicians whose sound is so distinctive and influential that the music industry invents a whole new genre to describe it. But D'Angelo, who has died at the age of 51, was seen as a ...

D’Angelo asks that question — worries it, caresses it, plumbs its unseen depths — no fewer than two dozen times in what might have been his signature hit. A meticulous, slow-to-boil ballad from the ...

D'Angelo, the soul and R&B legend whose influence helped usher in the neo-soul movement of the 1990s, has died after a private battle with cancer. He was 51. The singer's family confirmed his death in ...

D'Angelo, the R&B singer whose glistening torso in the "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" music video catapulted him into the mainstream, has died. He was 51 years old. The news comes "after a prolonged ...

With hits like “Brown Sugar” and “Untitled (How Does It Feel),” D’Angelo left a lasting mark on neo-soul. Here are 10 unforgettable tracks that showcase his genius. D’Angelo, the four-time Grammy ...