‘Butt-shakers and toe-tappers’: Ramsey Lewis brought jazz to the people | Jazz

Lewis warming up before a taping of Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis in 2005.

For the first half of the 20th century, jazz musicians would interpret the popular music of the age, with Tin Pan Alley hits, Broadway showtunes, blues songs and Latin dance numbers providing the basis for […]

Ramsey Lewis, the pop chart’s favorite jazz pianist, dies at 87 : NPR

Ramsey Lewis, the pop chart's favorite jazz pianist, dies at 87 : NPR

Ramsey Lewis, seen here performing at the Ontario Jazz Festival in 1981, died Monday at his home in Chicago. Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ron Bull/Toronto Star via Getty Images […]

Elvis Was Not Nearly As Rich As You Might Guess When He Died. So Where’d All The Money Go???

Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley was a global phenomenon. He had a larger than life persona that kept him in the headlines right up until his death. He churned out hit album after hit album. He put all […]

Tyler Perry explains path to Netflix pic ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’

A man, onstage before people seated at tables, smiles and points a finger toward whatever is behind him.

Tyler Perry is nothing if not prolific. And busy. Already a wildly successful writer, producer, director and performer in film, television and theater, he added studio head to his résumé with the 2019 opening of […]

Ozzy Osbourne: Patient Number 9 review – immortal king of heavy metal cheats death again | Metal

Ozzy Osbourne: Patient Number 9 album cover

‘I’ll never die, because I’m immortal,” sings Ozzy Osbourne on the second track of his 13th solo album. It’s not the last time Patient Number 9 mentions cheating death: “I’m coming out of my grave […]

ORIANTHI Releases New Single ‘Fire Together’

ORIANTHI Releases New Single 'Fire Together'

Internationally renowned rock guitarist Orianthi will release her new studio album, “Rock Candy”, on October 14 via Frontiers Music Srl. The LP follows 2020’s “O” which was Orianthi‘s first new studio album in seven years […]

A moment that changed me: As my parents argued, I watched reggae on TV and felt transported | Reggae

Janet Kay in 1984.

I heard reggae for the first time when I was 10, in the summer of 1972. My expat father was home on leave from Hong Kong, visiting my mum and I in our Devon bungalow. […]

‘What he was doing was like nothing else’: the secret recordings of genius producer Charles Stepney | Soul

Charles Stepney

In the mid-60s, a struggling vibraphone player named Charles Stepney and his wife, Rubie, visited their pastor looking for career advice. Stepney’s work as a jazz musician in Chicago was intermittent at best: when he […]

Special Interest Announce New Album Endure, Share Video for New Song With Mykki Blanco: Watch

Special Interest: Endure

Special Interest have announced their new album Endure with a video for their new song “Midnight Legend” (featuring Mykki Blanco). The LP is due out November 4 via Rough Trade. They have also announced a […]

‘To sing in Kashmiri is political’: Ali Saffudin, the singer-songwriter who smuggled his album to the world | Music

‘I needed someone to harness my music and get it out to the world.’

‘If someone like Neil Young or Bob Marley were born in Kashmir, who do you think they would have supported?” Ali Saffudin asks. “The oppressed. These are my inspirations.” For Saffudin, a Kashmiri folk singer-songwriter, […]

See Mary and Lester From “227” Now, at 91 and 83 — Best Life

Marla Gibbs in 2009

After making a name for herself playing Florence on The Jeffersons, Marla Gibbs moved immediately on to another classic sitcom, 227, about the residents of a Washington, D.C. apartment building. There, she was reunited with Hal […]