It's hot. Its summer. Let's ease into the night with some hard bop & soul jazz from the classic era—Lee Morgan, Ray Bryant, Bunky Green, Leo Wright and the Freedom Sounds. We'll then electrify the ...

Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of neo soul, a genre born in the 1990s that blends elements of the 1970s soul genre and funk, jazz, hip-hop and other musical traditions. The music feels both ...

As a jazz subgenre, soul-jazz began to flourish in the early 1960s. A groove-oriented style built from the bottom up, soul-jazz usually begins with the bass player: You take a strong bass line, ...