“Two thousand miles I roam, just to make Madison my home.” —Clyde Stubblefield I never saw James Brown dance across the stage to Clyde Stubblefield’s funky beat, but I danced many times to that beat ...

When siblings Dean and Melody Workman opened Funky Beat 14 years ago, they brought the reggae scene and surf style to the suburbs of Hampton Roads. The brother-sister team established themselves as ...

The first set in three years from Southern California’s premier producer/DJ Andreas Stevens marks a decade since his Freestylin’ debut helped establish acid jazz as a modern musical force. Soul Mosaic ...

And now it's time to get down, get down. In our studios, we have our friends Jasmine Garsd and Felix Contreras from NPRMusic's Alt.Latino, a show dedicated to Latin alternative music. They recently ...

The Telmo Fernández Organ Trio is a bit of a throwback—to the classic hard bop organ trios of yore. The title of the trio's first album, The Soul Jazz Beat Vol. 1, tells it like it is—a soulful, jazzy ...