We've all been exposed to the music of Isaac Hayes. His film soundtracks and jazz-tinged funk have had their effect. Today he's also known for his role as a school cafeteria worker in the animated ...

Pianist Sidney Kirk, one of Memphis’ great jazz and R&B musicians and a key member of The Isaac Hayes Movement, died Wednesday. Kirk’s daughter Christian Kirk confirmed his death. He was 78. A pivotal ...

The decision to truncate album tracks for the singles market set a pattern. Follow-up album The Isaac Hayes Movement opened with a just-short of 12-minute cover of “I Stand Accused,” originally a 1964 ...

"Album ReCue" celebrates 50th anniversaries: 1971 releases chosen by FUV hosts. Above, an archive of Alisa Ali's conversation with Darren DeVivo about his selection, Isaac Hayes's watershed Shaft ...

Craft Recordings is pleased to announce an audiophile pressing of Hot Buttered Soul: the earth-shattering 1969 hit record from GRAMMY and Academy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, and actor, ...

Isaac Hayes died Sunday, August 10, ten days shy of his 66th birthday. While maintaining his recording career, Hayes later spent time as a radio host (in both New York and Memphis), entrepreneur (he ...