Highly-acclaimed jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson passed away on Mon. (Aug 15) at the age of 75, reports The New York Times. Hutcherson rose to fame in the '60s and is most known for bringing the ...

The road from Kentucky to Switzerland is as long as it is unlikely. We’re speaking of two countries with an ocean of culture vastly greater than the waters of the Atlantic separating them. But in 1969 ...

WhoSampled, based on the popular website of the same name, helps you connect the musical present to the past by displaying the songs that are used as parts of other songs. You can search for samples ...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950s who collaborated on dozens of albums with top artists of his time and later enjoyed commercial success with hit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soulful jazz great Les McCann, whose work was sampled by hundreds of hip-hop artists including Notorious B.I.G. and Dr. Dre, died ...

Ahmad Jamal, whose music was sampled by Nas, Jay-Z, De La Soul and many other Hip-Hop artists, died at the age of 92. Jazz legend Ahmad Jamal passed away in Massachusetts on Sunday (April 16). The ...

Even if you don’t know psychedelic French jazz-funk legends Cortex by name, you have probably know have probably heard elements of their 1975 album Troupeau Bleu. Tracks from it have been sampled by ...

Les McCann stood only 5 foot 7, but he was a towering figure when he sang and played piano. The rousing brand of soul-jazz he helped pioneer in the 1950s and ’60s inspired several generations of ...

The acclaimed musician released more than 60 albums but is arguably best known for his 1969 Montreaux Jazz Festival performance of the protest song "Compared to What." By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, ...