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Lonnie Liston Smith is a jazz legend. He's a pianist and keyboard player. He's worked with Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis and Marvin Gaye. Smith is a master of…

The cosmic keyboard man teams up with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaeed Muhammad to give his take on the perennial question of what jazz is

The Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer recorded the eight-track album with US label Jazz Is Dead founder Adrian Younge back in April 2018, two years before his death

He has worked with Miles Davis, been sampled by Jay-Z, and has now made his first album in 25 years. He explains how going on TikTok helped him rediscover his cosmic keyboard sound

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The legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen died in 2020, at the age of 79, and he kept working right up until the end. Allen was most famous for playing with Fela Kuti for many years, but he never stopped collaborating with other artists. Since Allen’s death, a whole lot of music has come out, including tracks with Gorillaz, Skepta, and Sampa The Great, as well as a whole album with Joan As Police Woman and Dave Okumu. Now, there’s another posthumous Tony Allen album coming out, and w...

Shaquille O'Neal's new song "King Talk" is coming soon, and will celebrate this year's NBA playoffs. Get the release date.

Shaquille O’Neal, who released rap albums in the ‘90s, is returning to hip-hop with a song called “King Talk” in celebration of the NBA Playoffs.

LONNIE LISTON SMITH, who hasn’t released a studio record in 25 years, joins a growing line of veterans whose careers have been spectacularly revived via