Kendrick Lamar’s music often blends contemporary hip-hop with elements drawn from jazz tradition, especially on projects like ...

An intimate engagement with Pete Rock, a living legend who traces the direct lineage of Black excellence from jazz to rap with devotion and brilliance.

I should’ve known that something was in the air when the first songs I heard at the biggest jazz music festival in the world were by Outkast, Arrested Development, Common, and A Tribe Called Quest. As ...

This week, alt hip-hop group D igable Planets celebrated the anniversary of their 1993 debut album, Reachin' (A New ...

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, ...

But long before this resurgence, one of the earliest jazz-infused Hip-Hop albums, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The landscape of hip-hop was rapidly changing by 1993, as its commercial ...

Linda Diaz and LA Buckner work together to break down how these two genres cross-pollinate Hip hop’s foundation and evolution owe itself to jazz. And it’s reciprocal. Jazz has borrowed from all facets ...

Every year, people from around the world pilgrimage to a leafy Harlem brownstone on E. 126th Street in hopes of conjuring history. It was there in 1958 that 57 jazz icons, from Thelonious Monk to ...

“Syracuse Playlist” is a quarterly feature on syracuse.com highlighting music from local artists. If you’re a Syracuse-area musician, email gherbert@syracuse.com to share your music, including your ...