The Jazz and Soul Club plays a new tune for Loyola’s campus. The Loyola extracurricular scene has just been jazzed up. After ...
When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the ...
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, ...
The Hammond B3 organ weighs over 400 pounds. At the height of their popularity, the Spice Girls combined probably weighed less than that but unlike 400 pounds of manufactured girl power, 400 pounds of ...
Dial Records initiated the “tenor battle" concept in 1947 when the label brought bebop saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray into the studio to record Gordon's composition The Chase. Prestige ...
Soul Jazz's Jamaican rocksteady comp Studio One Rocksteady highlights songs that demonstrate tremendously tight vocal arrangements and exude the ease of a growing music industry. Throughout Bradley’s ...
With the end of World War II, in 1945, there was great rejoicing and celebrating a triumph over evil, as the United States ushered in a new era. But with segregation still the norm, in the shadows of ...
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Music lovers can look forward to an unforgettable evening as the 'Gauteng Soul and Jazz Concert' returns to SunBet Arena on June 13, promising another world-class showcase of soul, jazz and Afro-pop ...