Roy Ayers was a virtuoso jazz vibraphone player and multi-instrumentalist, but he was also able, in the 1970s, to bring jazz ...

Everybody Loves Sunshine hit-maker and jazz legend, Roy Ayers, has passed away after battling a long illness. He was 84.

Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk composer, producer, and vibraphonist, died Tuesday, March 4, in New York after a long ...

A multi-genre music legend known as the Godfather of Neo Soul is dead at age 84. Roy Ayers, the jazz vibraphonist best known ...

“Wham! Bam! Here comes Pam!” Thus reads the tagline of Pam Grier’s 1975 film Friday Foster, the final in her illustrious line of 1970s Blaxploitation films. If one way to know you’ve made ...

A fun place to learn cool things about your favorite films is r/MovieDetails, and I went down a wormhole reading about the hidden meanings/references of character names. Here are some of the most ...

A fun place to learn cool things about your favorite films is r/MovieDetails, and I went down a wormhole reading about the hidden meanings/references of character names. Here are some of the most ...

For Black History Month, the free streaming service Pluto TV is spotlighting its Black cinema offerings, including an impressive lineup of Blaxploitation classics from the 1970s. The genre has a ...

Our first roundup of 2025 features some major releases; given the state of things, we should be very thankful for that. Note that our next column will include a lengthy list of new and recent novels ...

Let’s be clear from the beginning: Melvin Van Peebles is not a traditional singer. And Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, released in June 1971, two months after the film, is very much a ...

Switch on and get down at the Natural History Museum's chart-topping silent disco. Choose your side as three DJs do battle over separate wireless channels, playing the very best songs, new and old.