The first weekend of the 2025 edition of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is underway, with one historic moment for the festival and the city set to take place during the first Saturday. New ...

Albums like To Pimp a Butterfly and 1999 blend jazz harmonies with sharp lyricism, proving the genre’s deep connection. Hip-hop may keep evolving, but funk and jazz remain its heartbeat, fueling its ...

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Listen to an interview with Brandon Meeks, an Indianapolis–based jazz bassist, bandleader and hip-hop producer, widely ...

This virtuoso trumpeter bridged jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul on his own records and in collaborations with D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and the Roots. Listen to 13 selections. Credit...Illustration by Dante ...

Sunday morning cleaning playlists vary from person to person, and for rapper Killer Mike, Jazz is the weekend’s closing act. “When my wife and I get up on Sundays, we’re like our grandparents,” Mike ...

Kahlil Childs remembers the moment he fell in love with jazz. Although he was surrounded by the sounds of jazz, soul, blues, funk, reggae, Afro-Latin music, and old school hip-hop from the ’80s and ...