In celebration of Stevie Wonder's milestone birthday, here are some of his greatest hits, including 'Part-Time Lover' and ...

It has been nearly a century since Duke Ellington’s orchestra ... Each group selected three songs to perform from the Essentially Ellington library. The top 10 finishers advanced to a second ...

Big deal, right? But there was a bit of an altercation up front. Things moved more slowly than usual. When the customer got to ... Duke Ellington was one of the ... he would go on to compose beautiful ...

It had a box of music magazines, all the same, called DownBeat. I got them for next to nothing. They were about jazz in ...

The 2025 Met Gala, for which he was serving as not only as a guest but also a member of the host committee. The gala’s accompanying exhibition—“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” on at the ...

In an interview with the Birmingham Post-Herald toward the end of his life, the bewilderingly brilliant jazz composer Sun Ra described his music in so many words.

This week saw the first official release on vinyl of Pink Floyd's legendary 1971 set played in Pompeii - showing to what extent the British band were once one of the greatest live acts in the world.

“I’m kind of stretching out this year, if you can call it that,” says the singer-songwriter, who has a myriad of projects and collaborations currently simmering to a boil, each one a little (or a lot) ...

Marsalis has been the president of the 56-year-old Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation since 2018. He received the National Medal of the Arts In 2005 and has written or co-authored seven books, ...

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music with renowned choreographer Jawole Willa Jo ...

Group member Shaznay Lewis and producer William Orbit wrote Pure Shores for the soundtrack to the 2000 Leonardo DiCaprio film The Beach. All Saints also included it on their second album, Saints & ...

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