Ray Charles was a genius; we all knew that. But so much so that he could write a monster hit off the cuff, in front of a ...

Jacksonville is planning to celebrate its musical legacy with a new park dedicated to artists who have ties to the city. That ...

Dame Cleo Laine, a virtuosic singer, glided across British tv screens in the 1960s and 1970s, a symbol of the free-spirited ...

I don’t consider myself a jazz singer… I’m a singer of songs,” said the vocal star, who won a Grammy in the Best Female Jazz ...

Cleo Laine, considered by many to be the U.K.’s preeminent jazz singer, and an accomplished theater actress in her home ...

We speak to the superstar percussionist about “a very brave, very courageous idea that Sir Elton had, to go out on the road ...

In rock and roll, “great singing” is subjective. Mick Jagger cannot be said to have a particularly operatic voice, but what ...

A Briton with a smoky voice, she recorded albums across six decades, toured the world and acted in “Edwin Drood.” ...

The Grim Reaper has been on a gleeful rampage these past months. Wielding his scythe with impunity he has been mowing down some of the best and the brightest artists around. Hopefully, his recent ...

Cleo Laine, an English singer who moved easily among musical genres with a dazzling vocal range of almost five octaves and ...

Rock music fans are fortunate John Lodge didn’t pursue his initial career goal. The bassist for British progressive rock ...

A blockbuster show in Paris celebrates the designer whose over-the-top aesthetic embodied his money-mad era—and speaks to our ...