Ahmad Jamal obituary | Ahmad Jamal

Jamal at the Louisiana jazz and heritage festival in New Orleans, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Dapper and sagacious, Ahmad Jamal may have looked more like a UN delegate than a jazz musician, but he was recognised as a truly great jazz artist by some of the music’s most notable pioneers. […]

Ahmad Jamal, influential pianist and composer, has died

Ahmad Jamal, influential pianist and composer, has died

Ahmad Jamal, a pianist, composer and arranger whose innovative, chamber jazz style had a powerful impact on his contemporaries while gaining widespread popularity via such recordings as his bestselling interpretation of “Poinciana,” has died, according […]

Ahmad Jamal, measured maestro of the jazz piano, dies at 92 : NPR

Ahmad Jamal, measured maestro of the jazz piano, dies at 92 : NPR

Ahmad Jamal, pictured in 2016. Rémy Gabalda/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rémy Gabalda/AFP via Getty Images Ahmad Jamal, pictured in 2016. Rémy Gabalda/AFP via Getty Images For most jazz performers, a song […]

RICHIE FAULKNER’s ELEGANT WEAPONS Shares Second Single, ‘Do Or Die’

RICHIE FAULKNER's ELEGANT WEAPONS Shares First Single, 'Blind Leading The Blind'

The official Lief Thomason-directed music video for “Do Or Die”, the second single from ELEGANT WEAPONS, the new project featuring guitarist Richie Faulkner (JUDAS PRIEST) and singer Ronnie Romero (RAINBOW, MSG),can be seen below. The […]

Recognition at last for male divas. But if Elton John qualifies, why not Drake – or Kendall Roy? | Rachel Aroesti

Drake

Who do you think of when you hear the word diva? A trailblazing punk singer? A civil rights activist and second world war spy? A man? Well, maybe – especially if that man is Elton […]

Don Letts’ forever fashion: ‘When I wear this shirt now, how do I feel? Slimmer than I ought to be’ | Fashion

Don Letts in the 80s

I knew the late designer Scott Crolla a bit, because we moved in the same circles in London. He had a shop in the early 80s. I got three or four of these shirts. His […]

Dorothy Ashby was the pioneer harpist who opened up the instrument to Black musicians like me | Music

Brandee Younger performing in 2019.

I began playing harp at 11 and the traditional path to follow with the instrument was the classical music one, where all the players I saw or studied were white. I found it quite an […]

Ryuichi Sakamoto: the avant gardist who became a groundbreaking pop star | Music

Ryuichi Sakamoto performing in 1988.

Ryuichi Sakamoto was not a man cut out to be a pop star. As a teenager, he liked the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but his abiding passion was New York’s underground avant garde art […]

How a Brooklyn ‘hustler’ launched Kiss and Donna Summer

Jeremy Jordan stars as Neil Bogart in "Spinning Gold."

Music executive Neil Bogart’s career took off thanks to an extramarital affair. In the early 1970s, Bogart leaned in to kiss his mistress, Joyce Biawitz, and saw a demo labeled “Kiss.” “Kiss — that’s a […]

‘I tend to avoid moral statements’: the Mexican artist looking at oil, wealth and history | Art

Minerva Cuevas, installation view of in gods we trust, Kurimanzutto, New York, 2023.

Taking in Mexican artist Minerva Cuevas’s exhibition in gods we trust is like feeling your way through bits and pieces of enormous counter-narratives that retell hundreds of years of Mexican history. Like the proverbial tip […]

Steven Van Zandt on Springsteen’s E Street Band Tour: Podcast

Steven Van Zandt on Springsteen's E Street Band Tour: Podcast

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Steven Van Zandt joins Kyle Meredith to talk about the 20th-anniversary of Little Steven’s Underground Garage and his current tour with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (get […]

Original Parliament-Funkadelic Member Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins Passes Away

Clarence Haskins

Photo Credit: Atco Records A founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic, vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins has passed away. He was 81 years old. Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins, vocalist and stage presence playing alongside George Clinton […]

Parliament-Funkadelic singer Clarence ‘Fuzzy’ Haskins dies at 81 : NPR

Parliament-Funkadelic singer Clarence 'Fuzzy' Haskins dies at 81 : NPR

Clarence Eugene “Fuzzy” Haskins, an original member of the influential musical collective Parliament-Funkadelic, has died. He was 81. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hide caption toggle caption Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Clarence […]