After a six-month wait, the Smooth Jazz Festival is ready for a spring show at Riverwalk Amphitheater this weekend.

Columbia's jazz scene is thriving, per those with ColaJazz, Chayz Lounge and SC Jazz Masterworks, but threats to venues could ...

He went on to record three albums with jazz flautist Herbie Mann before forming Roy Ayers Ubiquity and landing the hit ...

With over 20 more artists still to be unveiled, including some surprise international acts that are sure to leave ...

The Montgomery Smooth Jazz Festival will take place on March 14-15 at Riverwalk Amphitheater. The festival will feature national jazz and R&B artists, including Boney James, Leela James, and ...

From a pair of shows by the reigning “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” to a pack of animatronic dinosaurs and a tribute to a San ...

Roy Ayers, the trailblazer of jazz, funk and neo-soul whose "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" proved a hugely popular hip-hop sample, has died. He was 84 years old. The artist's family shared the ...

Influential soul, jazz and funk producer and composer Roy Ayers ... More recently, Calvin Harris told BBC Radio 2 that Ayers "just stood out, his music is amazing and just so intricate ...

His 2003 disc "2:35 P.M." entered the Billboard 200 chart ... It went to 53 on Billboard's hip-hop/R&B charts. A Soul and Jazz and Funk reviewer compared him to Womack, R. Kelly and Johnnie ...

Roy Ayers, who died March 4 at 84 after a long illness, understood this perhaps better than any other vibraphonist. He had the chops to run rings around many of his peers, and he did just that as a ...