Revisit three 1979 country songs that accidentally paved the way for the genre in the '80s. Do you still listen to these throwbacks?

The band from Trinidad and Tobago will headline the Unity Jazz Festival this week, bringing “a sense of joy” and its ...

In 1988, noted author, journalist, poet, activist and jazz aficionado Kalamu ya Salaam produced an album titled “The New New Orleans Music” that celebrated the richness of the modern jazz scene in New ...

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Bruno Mars, Jill Scott and Mandy, Indiana have new albums on the way, and a frantic tune from an anime film is No. 1 in Japan ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the jazz notables who died this year, including Sheila Jordan, Andy Bey, Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Chuck Mangione, Eddie Palmieri and Jim McNeely.

Any self-respecting punk out there knows this song all too well. And if you were a little punk back in 1979, this is probably one of many punk rock songs that inspired you to begin playing the guitar.

He was definitely experimental. It wasn’t as if he played just rock, blues or jazz – he foraged a different line. To me he ...

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“He never stopped loving Jeanette, ever, and when she died, that was his tipping point,” Steph Wood explains. “There had ...

One of the guitar world’s most visionary makers, who took the archtop guitar to unimaginable levels and also created the ...