Long before it became connected with Asian food, razors or fruit drinks, Jeff Lorber brought fusion to jazz listeners in the late 1970s. There wasn't a grand scheme to it, he said in an interview from ...

There is just more of a sense of urgency to the east coast vibe. There's a fire, a reckless abandonment sort of thing. You need look no further than his record Rolajafufu (Self Produced, 2016) to hear ...

Ahhh, the 80s. Big hair, big synthesizer sounds and programmed beats. That didn't just happen with pop and rock, some of these trends seeped into contemporary jazz, too. This was the decade when much ...

Chuck Mangione, whose limpid flugelhorn ruled the upper reaches of Billboard's adult contemporary charts in the 1970s and '80s with a culture-permeating lilt that helped create the genre known as ...