“Jazz has absorbed whatever was around from the very beginning,” the writer Francis Davis told Wen Stephenson in a 1996 ...

Pianist and music industry executive David Briggs, famed for his work in Muscle Shoals as well as with Elvis Presley and others, has died at 82.

Though Phillips said, “Well, Johnny Cash doesn’t run this operation, I do, thank you very much,” before hanging up on the ...