Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than 15 years, Adrian Younge has provided the backbeat for a large swath of Black entertainment — literally. In addition ...

Fender has joined forces with first-call producer and composer Adrian Younge to create a new signature Masterbuilt bass guitar, and it's a doozy. Based on Younge's personal 2021 Custom Shop Jazz Bass, ...

Producer, composer and Jazz is Dead co-founder Adrian Younge has announced Something About April III, the final album in his Brazilian-influenced psychedelic soul trilogy. It will be out April 18 via ...

My favorite thing about Adrian Younge is his penchant for leather driving gloves. The self-taught composer, neosoul heavyweight, and Jazz Is Dead label cofounder is a man of exacting elegance who ...

THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT ADRIAN: Adrian Younge is touring in support of his latest album, a Brazilian-influenced jazz-meets-hip-hop soundtrack to a nonexistent movie. Photo courtesy Linear Labs One of ...

“I’ve been here since like, 5 am,” the 46-year-old admits, somehow looking none the worse for having spent the previous eight hours or so tinkering away at another project. “I wake up early every day, ...

"Something About April III" is the final volume of Emmy-award winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge's psychedelic soul trilogy that began in 2011. This time around, Younge takes ...

Adrian Younge's resume is ridiculous. From his breakout score and the cult blaxploitation film Black Dynamite to making the hip-hop meets soul album Something About April, a 21st century sampling ...

Adrian Younge was known foremost as an entertainment law professor when he provided the score for the blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite (2009). As noted on the front sleeve of the release, Younge ...

The WMNF Song of the Day for June 27, 2025 is “Questions” by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muammad. The critically acclaimed composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, is well respected for his ...

For more than 15 years, Adrian Younge has provided the backbeat for a large swath of Black entertainment — literally. In addition to composing the scores for Marvel’s “Luke Cage,” the James ...