Last week, I posted on top Japanese big bands that accompanied touring American singers in the early 1960s as well as a couple of top ones today. Your response was huge, so I decided to feature ...

Members of Waseda University's jazz club march down the Honch during the annual jazz and rock festival in Yokosuka, Japan, on Nov. 4, 2024. (Alex Wilson/Stars and Stripes) On the QT ...

Just before disco reached mainstream status in 1974 with the Hues Corporation’s “Rock the Boat,” live funk bands dominated at clubs in many urban markets. The bump was a dance rage, and Kool ...

Ricky ‘Sugarfoot’ Wellman, 57, drummer with funk, jazz bands By Terence McArdle Washington Post, December 2, 2013, 12:00 a.m.

In September 2023, vintage columnist Eric Pye (@audioloveyyc) spent three weeks in Japan pursuing audio perfection in all forms. In this episode of the eCoustics podcast, he and podcast producer Mitch ...

But nobody in those funk bands was playing (John Coltrane’s jazz classic) ‘Giant Steps’ because nobody knew what that was.” Marsalis left the Creators when he was 16 to focus on jazz.

As one of the better jazz-funk bands of the last two decades, The New Mastersounds keep up a relentless schedule, stopping through the area at least once a year. They formed in Leeds, in the ...

In some cases it was cheaper. In other situations, countries had regulations that insisted their own musicians were hired for the job. Like Australia, Japan had top-notch big-band players and still do ...