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 ...

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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 ...

The annual Playboy Jazz Festival concerts at the Old Pasadena Summer Fest have always been among the summer’s most appealing events. The price -- free -- is just right. The music -- a blend of smooth ...

Brian Culbertson has scored hit singles on just about every Billboard chart there is. Culbertson, an Illinois-born pianist, bandleader and songwriter who performs at the Charleston Music Hall on Oct.

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 ...