Roy Ayers, the jazz-funk pioneer and “Godfather of Neo Soul,” leaves behind a timeless musical legacy that continues to inspire generations. Roy Ayers, the legendary jazz vibraphonist and revered ...

Neo Soul is a genre that is hard to escape from; it’s everywhere from Instagram and Tik Tok to mainstream pop, bringing guitar talent and inspiring chord playing to new audiences. Neo Soul is a style ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Channeling the swing and scat stylings of jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald with a neo-soul edge, Bilal comes to the Conga Room at L.A. Live tonight (Aug. 7). The 9 p.m. show is ...

Even before the completion this summer of her first CD, Washington, DC native Akua (pronounced a KWEE a) Allrich was electrifying audiences in and around the nation's capital. She repeatedly sold out ...

Neo Soul/Jazz singer Kea releases new single ‘We Made It Thru.’ *“It’s called ‘We Made It Thru’ because we’ve come through some of the worst of life’s experiences,” said Neo-Soul/Jazz ...

Pittsburgh vocalist KELS is looking forward to her 26th birthday later this month. On that date, the Pine-Richland graduate will release her first three-song EP, “Slow Ryde,” after performances this ...

The source code of neo-soul is scattered across a number of genre-defiant projects that pushed, and eventually broke, boundaries in the first half of the 1990s. Neo-soul wasn't always such a nebulous ...

The great Roy Ayers, the vibraphone master who pioneered neo-soul in the 1970s, died on Tuesday at age 84. The news was shared by his family: “It is with great sadness that the family of legendary ...

KeiyaA sounds like amorphous autonomy. Spoken word reclamations of her precious time as a Black woman can flow from a bed of spacey computer beeps and bellowing chants into “conflicts centered on ...