He was a member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio when it reached the Top 10 with “The ‘In’ Crowd,” and he later had a hit as a co-leader with the funky “Soulful Strut.” By Alex Traub Redd Holt, a drummer who ...

With the Grammys coming next week and the Oscar nominations out, I've been thinking about the ways the culture industry — including writers like me — throws things into buckets in order to see what ...