"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Hear Tenacious D’s previously-unreleased cover of REO Speedwagon’s Keep On Loving You, from the new Good Music To Lift Los ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the screenwriter behind the influential “Harlem Trilogy” of films New Jack City, Sugar Hill and Above the Rim and the man who coined the term New Jack Swing, has died. He was 66.

The life of the late Cream bassist will be commemorated with an all-star jam to raise funds for the Jack Bruce Foundation as the Gibson Garage London celebrates its first anniversary ...

Harlem Gangsters Raise a Genius,” captured a star on his meteoric rise to the top but also coined the term “new jack swing” that defined the genre of music associated with Riley and his ...

Barry Michael Cooper, the acclaimed screenwriter best known for his "Harlem trilogy" consisting of the films "New Jack City" (1991), "Sugar Hill" and "Above the Rim" (both 1994), died Wednesday of ...

The Harlem journalist who coined the phrase “New Jack Swing” while writing a profile passed away in Maryland. There is no ...

Cooper was known for having coined the phrase “new jack swing” in a 1988 profile for “The Village Voice” on Teddy Riley. The sound would come to define that of urban music in the late 80s ...

Prior to his screenwriting success in the 1990s, Cooper was a music critic for The Village Voice between 1980 and 1989. He also penned the piece “Teddy Riley’s New Jack Swing: Harlem Gangsters ...

Cooper wrote for newspapers like 'The Village Voice' before transitioning to screenwriting and filmmaking with 1991's 'New Jack City' ...