Walking a Harlem block with Dr. Lonnie Smith was always—like his stage show—a predictably unpredictable cadenza of zigs and zags, a herky-jerky check-in with the pulse of the people. Particularly if ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all ...

If you head into Normal Heights' long-time watering hole Rosie O'Grady's on an upcoming Tuesday night, chances are excellent that you'll have a funky good time. A few of San Diego's most-wanted ...

Cory Henry, a three-time Grammy Award winner as a member of jazz-fusion band Snarky Puppy, is embracing a new era with a group billed as Cory Henry & the Funk Apostles. The Indy Jazz Fest performer ...

Few are the folks who could cast a literal shadow over the iconic Hammond B-3 organ, nicknamed "the Beast" by many of the jazz musicians who have helmed the hefty 425-pound instrument. But Reuben ...

Locally-based Hammond organist Kris Yunker will host the second installment in his series of "Funk Nights" at the Stone Church in Brattleboro Wednesday at 8 p.m. Yunker, who has played in various ...

Johnny "Hammond" Smith will always be tagged as the other Smith on the B-3, grouped together with a host of other organists who never managed to break free from the club circuit into the realm of true ...