Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground was quite a fan of jazz. In fact, he enjoyed the unique perspective of jazz and its freedom. Free-form jazz, specifically, could have easily inspired unique (and ...

The Byrds weren’t attempting to sound jazzy. Instead, they wanted to incorporate some of Coltrane’s approaches into their music. Like any other genre of music, rock is constantly developing. In the ...

There’s a reason Miles Davis recorded “My Funny Valentine” and John Coltrane “My Favorite Things.” Jazz musicians work via a strategy of theme-and-variation. They plant a melodic/rhythmic motif in the ...

From yacht rock to blues to jazz to a debut of an Aussie DJ, San Diego has a list of great shows to catch this holiday week.

The emergence of jazz-rock fusion in American music in the late 1960s was controversial. To some, those who played it were traitors to the cause of jazz. Others thought it has saved jazz from ...

Hermetic Science was founded in January 1996 as rock’s first vibes/marimba power trio. In the band’s early days, California’s ...

The NY Times recently published an op-ed on the aging of rock music as a genre and of its first generation of musicians (specifically the ones who played “Oldchella”). It included the following claim: ...

Founding member of the jazz-rock band Chicago, Walter Parazaider, passed away this morning, June 17, in hospice. His daughter, Felicia Helen Parazaider, announced his death on Facebook, writing, "I ...

Varanasi, Dec 24 (PTI) Mystic poet Kabir's couplets, sakhis, and hymns have for centuries been part of Indian thought through a rich oral tradition and strains of classical and folk music. Now, a new ...