Artists
Vocal virtuoso Bobby McFerrin ranks among the most distinctive and original singers in contemporary music — equally adept in jazz, pop, and classical settings.
A group that effortlessly straddles the gap between avant-garde improvisation and accessible groove-based jazz, Medeski, Martin & Wood have simultaneously earned standing as relentlessly innovative musicians.
Until the arrival of the Sugarcubes, jazz fusion band Mezzoforte was Iceland’s best-known musical export.
Best known for recording the hit theme to Soul Train, MFSB were the preeminent instrumental outfit of Philadelphia soul.
Monday Michiru stands as one of Japan's finest soul and R&B singers of the 1990s, and her cosmopolitan sensibility and mixed nationality have made her stand out among her contemporaries.
Duncan Millar is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, and producer from London, England.
A versatile and highly regarded bassist, Marcus Miller is known for his fluid improvisational chops and funky, contemporary-leaning jazz.
Blending together funk, jazz, bossa nova, soul, and boogaloo with downbeat and drum'n'bass tendencies, German acid jazz duo Mo' Horizons came together in the late '90s.