As a jazz subgenre, soul-jazz began to flourish in the early 1960s. A groove-oriented style built from the bottom up, soul-jazz usually begins with the bass player: You take a strong bass line, ...

A thematic sequel to his 2007 release, Song and Dance, Bobby Broom's Soul Fingers is a deep-pile take on late 1960s—early 1970s pop, with Broom in his best Wes Montgomery vein, giving new soul-jazz ...

The Nash, a downtown Phoenix jazz club, will present a three-day anniversary weekend featuring THE NASH COLLECTIVE, the soul jazz supergroup ...

Since 2018, the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective has made waves in town by resurrecting the stylish grooves of the postbop era, which began in the late 1950s—nationally, the sound was shaped by the likes ...

When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the ...

What, exactly, is "soul?" This word is used so often in discussions and writings about music, but I wonder if anybody can actually define its very essence and place in the musical universe? The ...

Jazz is more than a musical genre. It’s an entire universe of sound. From its inception in early 20th-century New Orleans, jazz shifted in form and complexity, making it a tough nut to crack for some ...

Pixar Animation’s next movie, Soul, follows Joe Gardner, a New York City elementary school music teacher who has long aspired to be a professional jazz pianist. When an accident on the eve of his big ...