The Jazz Crusaders, whose classic work has just been collected in a new box set from Mosaic Records, were major players in the debates that dominated the jazz community in the 1960s. At a time when ...

With the esteemed jazz/funk/fusion band the Crusaders as a guide, one could trace the rise and fall of commercial jazz in all in many of its permutations. The core group that is the most recognized ...

Finally, tonight we say goodbye to a legend of the keyboard, Joe Sample. He died last night in his hometown of Houston, Texas. In the late 1950s, Sample was one of the founding members of a group ...

Nesbert “Stix” Hooper returns home this week for the first time in maybe 20 years. He thinks the last time he was here was for a class reunion at Phillis Wheatley High School. The legendary drummer ...

File- This July 2, 2006, file photo shows jazz pianist Joe Sample performing during the special event “Hommage to Nesuhi Ertegun” of the 40th Montreux Jazz Festival at the Stravinski hall in Montreux, ...

In 1943, the country was coping with a recording ban launched by the American Federation of Musicians in mid-1942. With live music under assault by new technology ranging from records and radio to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pops Robert Popwell playing the guitar, 1977. During his peak powers, from the late ’60s to the mid ’80s, the late Robert “Pops” ...

In most cities, finding the hottest jazz is a matter of knowing which club to go to. But it’s not so simple in Cape Town. Although this city boasts its own jazz genre (the lilting, highly ...

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ST. LOUIS • If the Jazz Crusaders had only gone through the motions Saturday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, its fans would likely have been satisfied. But the popular combo ...