This election year, CapRadio is here to help you gain a deeper understanding of the issues that matter to you so that you can vote with clarity. But sometimes, getting up the motivation to fill in ...
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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 ...
It’s an opening lyric so universal, tucked in a groove so essential, that the song seems to glow as it beams from the speakers. My life, my life, my life, my life in the sunshine Everybody loves the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Last summer, an online-only big band called The Sages of Future Soul recorded their arrangement of Moonchild's "The List," featuring reeds wunderkind Alexa Tarantino. What strikes you on listening to ...
*Garry Percell, the Billboard-charting smooth jazz guitarist, has released his official music video for “Love Ballad” as of ...
An exhibit based on one of Disney-Pixar's newest movies is coming to Kansas City Friday. "The Soul of Jazz: An American Adventure" based on Disney-Pixar's hit movie "Soul" will open at Kansas City's ...
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 ...
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Sylvie’s Love” and “Soul” understand the music and its place in African-American life, a welcome break with Hollywood history. By Giovanni Russonello Midway through “Ma ...