The CD you are holding in your hands is a very special compilation. It's the celebration of CTI as one of the most "sampled" labels on Earth! For the past ten years, many CTI tracks have been cut up, ...

Celebrating 30 years to the date since the release of their pivotal debut album Cool And Steady And Easy, cult acid-jazz ensemble Brooklyn Funk Essentials are back today with the release of a new ...

THE James Taylor Quartet have made over 20 albums, played a sell-out gig at the Brixton Academy and toured all over the world. The acid jazz/funk jazz foursome have become renowned for their energetic ...

The rhythm was funky, which meant it was danceable. In a few years Incognito would be identified with acid jazz — a wordplay on the “acid house” style of dance music and the Acid Jazz record label ...

Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. This is FRESH AIR. In the ...

Roy Ayers, the jazz vibraphonist whose smooth fusion planted the seeds of acid jazz and neo soul, died Wednesday at the age of 84. Ayers’ family confirmed his death on the musician’s Facebook page: ...

For Eddie Piller, the arrival this week in Leeds of a touring exhibition celebrating 35 years of the Acid Jazz movement offers a welcome return to familiar parts.Back in the 1990s he regularly ...

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 ...