The Syracuse International Jazz Fest returns in 2025 with a lineup featuring a host of jazz artists from all over the world.

French Quarter Fest 2025 expands to all 21 stages on Saturday, April 12. Here are Gambit's picks for musicians and bands to ...

Filmmakers Stanley Nelson Jr. and Nicole London didn’t want to do a typical documentary on funk music. What they made is a ...

God Bless the Child.” “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And of course, “Strange Fruit.” Ten writers and musicians share what they love ...

Michael Veal: What Brown took out of gospel music was the vamp ... Miller: And then Fred Wesley played the funkiest trombone solo that ever got recorded. I don't think anybody's gonna argue with me. ♪ ...

Fred Wesley [who played trombone in James Brown’s band] was happy to play. But he’s like, ‘You know, I don’t really go for that solo anymore ... down with [gospel star] Kirk Franklin ...

HAIR, the latest American Stage in the Park venture, isn’t quite Woodstock but there was certainly a Woodstockian vibe to the ...