When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the ...

It’s hard to know the history of any musician unless you’ve started at the beginning with them and studied all of their records. Or, the other soul. You know what I mean—their music's soul. And it is ...