From watching his father perform with jazz luminaries as a child to producing for hip-hop royalty, Karriem Riggins has spent his life at the intersection of musical worlds. The Detroit native, who ...

In the early 1990s, bass drummer Derrick Moss, snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc and other members of the Young Olympia Brass Band decided to split off to form a new brass band: The Soul Rebels. They wanted ...

Members of The Soul Rebels still get people in New Orleans bringing up their show with Nas at the 2017 Jazz Fest, says trumpeter Marcus Hubbard. That year, the New Orleans band collaborated with the ...

From its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jazz was considered the only true American art form. Its sound is a melting pot of musical influences, incorporating remnants of ragtime, ...

When SETI X—the San Francisco-based emcee and recipient of the Pharrell Williams-backed J Dilla Music Tech Grant—told me about a small brick-and-mortar he co-owned with Delrokz, a turntablist and ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- "Our America: Hidden Stories" is a six-part series that explores America's history of slavery and its impact on society today. One such story is that of De La Soul, the Long ...

lack music is a big house with a lot of rooms,” says pianist, composer, and producer Robert Glasper. A musical unicorn who has crystallized multiple genres into his own distinct brand, Glasper’s ...

The future of the BET Hip Hop Awards and Soul Train Music Awards is in limbo. In a recent interview with Billboard, BET CEO Scott Mills confirmed that the two staple awards ceremonies will not return ...

CBUS Soul Fest is returning Downtown to Genoa Park this summer, bringing with it a day of good food, good music and a whole lot of soul. Now in its third year, the festival, hosted by the Columbus ...

Public Enemy's Chuck D and DJ Doctor Dré talk to Newsday's Rafer Guzman about LI's hip-hop scene. Credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams, Jr., Chris Ware, Jeffrey L. Williams, Andy Edelstein; Run-DMC, ...