Reissues from Herbie Hancock's jazz-funk catalogue are always welcome, and few more so than Be With Records's vinyl-only edition of this long-neglected beauty. Recorded in Tokyo in 1979, it is ...

Robert Glasper, shown here at the DC Jazz Festival, features on a number of tracks on Kendrick Lamar’s new album. Photo by EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images Robert Glasper may not be a big name in pop ...

Flora Purim may be one of the most unfortunate stories in jazz of the past 35 years. First coming to light with Duke Pearson and Gil Evans, it was the one-two punch of pianist Chick Corea's Return to ...

Billboard speaks with Kamasi Washington, Ambrose Akinmusire, Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin at length about the close-knit community of jazz players and hip-hop operators in Los Angeles, their… By ...

So when the conscious Compton criminal came back with a bitches brew of spoken word, jazz, and funk on follow-up album To Pimp a Butterfly, K-Dot shocked critics, fans, bandwagon riders, lovers, and ...

If you were looking to find jazz music’s latest renaissance, a good place to start would be the liner notes to Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-award-winning 2015 album, To Pimp a Butterfly. In what was a ...