The Vilar Performing Arts Center’s main stage transforms into a club-like setting on Tuesday night, with audience members sitting on stage around reserved, two-top tables for a night of jazz, which ...

In the week leading up to this year’s Iowa City Jazz Fest, The Daily Iowan spoke with Damani Phillips, a local jazz saxophonist and associate professor of African-American studies at the University of ...

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 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Billy Paul was a powerful and distinctive voice in the golden era of 1970s soul and R&B. While most remember him for his iconic hit “Me and Mrs. Jones,” his body of work reveals a ...

It’s hard to know the history of any musician unless you’ve started at the beginning with them and studied all of their records. Or, the other soul. You know what I mean—their music's soul. And it is ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Al Jarreau had a voice unlike any other—playful, unpredictable, and full of soul. He moved effortlessly between jazz, R&B, and pop, turning every song into a conversation between ...

Jstop Latin Soul formed in 2018 when trombonist Joel Stopka and bassist/guitarist Brian Mesko united to pursue their passion for Afro-Cuban music and jazz. The duo assembled a collective of the area's ...