Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added "Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to ...

Pianist Mike LeDonne started playing piano at the age of 5 and was raised in his parent’s music store. By the age of 10 his father, a jazz guitarist, began booking him on gigs. He is now an ...

Grab your black cap and necktie— we're talking all about Mobile's legendary Excelsior Band. The country's oldest marching ...

The Silver Skillet offers other desserts that would be standouts anywhere else – a lemon icebox pie with the perfect pucker-to-sweet ratio, a chocolate chess pie rich enough to require a nap afterward ...

RUBBER SOUL - the album that changed the musical world we lived in then to the one we still live in today.” ---Andrew Loog Oldham“ ...

I started getting text messages and everybody was like, ‘Congratulations.’ I was like, ‘For what? What are you talking about?

Darrel Walls, who was born and raised in Houston, said his love of music stems from his family’s involvement in the church when he was a kid.

Kendrick Lamar leads all nominees with nine nods, followed by Lady Gaga and producers Jack Antonoff and Cirkut with seven apiece.

Alice and Ellen Kessler, the singers and dancers who reached international fame in the 1950s and '60s, died by assisted ...

Louis Armstrong is widely considered one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz music. His rapturous trumpet solos were unprecedented for the time, and his rhythm and vocabulary still ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong was also known as “Satchmo” or “Pops.” His first formal music lessons took ...

A sell-out audience celebrated Southampton's jazz heritage in a one-off production. 'Jazz Story' highlighted the city's century-long connection with the genre, reflecting its spirit of migration, ...