Twelve-year-old bass virtuoso Ellen Alaverdyan (better known as @ellenplaysbass on Instagram and YouTube) looks nervous as ...

Berkeley Festival of Choro will be held April 17-20 and offers concerts featuring special guest musicians, three community ...

The UpFront Exhibition Space presents the latest installment of its Groove Port music series on Saturday, April 26, at 7 p.m.

When the Soul Queen of New Orleans, Irma Thomas, first recorded with the funk outfit Galactic in 2010, the resulting single “Heart of Steel” became a ...

L arkspur Stand was born on a front porch in the east Bend neighborhood known as Larkspur, the band's namesake. What started as a few friends casually jamming out together eventually grew as more ...

The Once and Future Music article by Adam Beaudoin, published on April 9, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Live Review articles ...

Funk music has been around since the 1960s, developing out of gospel, R&B and soul, with a distinct emphasis on “syncopated ...

Vinyl is a limited run of 100, cut and mastered pristine, with a 12” x 12” lyric insert on which White also details the album ...

A new documentary examines the golden age of funk music, when large, often interracial bands lay down syncopated grooves that packed dance floors. John Blake says that today’s pop music, largely ...

The University of Connecticut Jazz Combos took to the stage at von der Mehden Recital Hall on Sunday, April 7 for an afternoon performance featuring the talents of small jazz groups.

It could groove L.A. It could groove London ... and let me ride ♪ ♪ Hell, yeah ♪ Sampled the bass, sampled the drum. Parliament sample: ♪ Let me ride ♪ Dre: ♪ What all my homies saying? ♪ ♪ Swing down ...

A casual observer of Ellen Alaverdyan might be fooled by her cute smile or sweet peals of laughter. After all, she looks like ...