The funkified jazz trio Medeski, Martin & Wood plays fusion music by way of the downtown New York avant scene of the 1990s. John Medeski's fuzzy keyboards are equally indebted to the Meters, Jimmy Smith, and Sun Ra; and Chris Wood and Billy Martin pr…

An acid jazz band that focuses more on jazz than groove-oriented dance music the Greyboy Allstars came together in 1993 when noted rare-groove DJ Greyboy aka Andreas Stevens met up with Karl Denson a saxophone player who was then touring with Lenny K…

A New Orleans musician in every sense of the word drummer Stanton Moores main gig is with his enormously popular funk band Galactic but he also plays with a wide variety of other musicians in both club and studio settings Growing up in New Orleans Mo…

Like many rappers, New York underground hip-hop hero Mos Def was first heard on guest appearances with other artists, in this case Da Bush Babees and De La Soul. It was his 1998 collaboration with the like-minded Talib Kweli in the duo Black Star tha…

Since co-founding the seminal improv rock outfit Phish in 1983 guitarist composer and songwriter Trey Anastasio has explored a wide variety of musical pathways ranging from atonal fugues and elaborate charts with Phish to adventurous free jazz on his…