Alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson returns to Jazz at the Bistro on Wednesday, November 30 for 4 nights of funky blues and bop. The ageless marvel, now in his mid-70s, has been thrilling audiences since ...

ALTON – The Funky Butt Brass Band will perform at the Alton Godfrey Rotary Park, 110 E 3rd St., from 7-9 p.m. Friday, July 14. Funky Butt Brass Band is a group of six performers formed in 2008 who ...

YPSILANTI, MI -- Funkiness is coming to downtown Ypsilanti with a week full of live, original music. Funky Rivertown Fest is 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, through Friday, March 22, and 2 to 11 ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

This is FRESH AIR. In the 1970s, influential musicians such as Ornette Coleman began combining free jazz and electric funk. Three notable vets of free funk bands periodically team up to get ...

It’s not often you have the opportunity to see a virtuoso in the flesh. I still kick myself for not taking the opportunity to see Luciano Pavarotti when he was still alive. Now, I’m not saying ...