Buoyant, accessible and executed with advanced musicianship, “Over Easy” from new album ‘Simpatico’ exemplifies what Jazz Funk Soul is about.

The Blackbyrds’ ‘City Life’ stands as a hallmark of ’70s jazz funk, blending smooth grooves, socially aware lyrics and impressive instrumentation.

Once again bridging music styles from decades apart now connected to make feel-good jazz of today, Takuya Kuroda achieves his mission with ‘EVERYDAY.’

Sometimes you want great chops and sometimes you just want good time music. Scary Goldings’ ‘IV’ has got both covered.

Every Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber project was treated as a major work by the late Greg Tate, and with ‘Angels Over Oakanda,’ he leaves intact his legacy of leading a band of boundless imagination and chops.

Sometimes you want jazz that makes you think and other times you just want that jazz to party and get down. The Nils Landgren Funk Unit takes care of the latter end of the spectrum with their recent release ‘Funk Is My Religion.’

Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore and Skerik of Garage A Trois are the old veterans of the whole jam-band, funk-jazz scene, but in all the right ways, ‘Calm Down Cologne’ sounds as if this is their debut album, because it’s got that new-band freshness to it.

Richie Goods, dubbed “my left-hand man” by Mulgrew Miller, joins Ross Boissoneau to discuss the albums that shaped his hall of fame career.

Here is the advance single “Windfall,” from Jazz Funk Soul’s upcoming album ‘Life and Times.’

The Rob Dixon Trio’s ‘Coast To Crossroads’ is funk-jazz that’s the best because it comes from the best.