As pop idol, hit-making solo artist, and with the most star-studded CV of any sideman, the affable Welshman offers up his ...

The Life of Aretha Franklin, along with other bombshell revelations about her life and loves. Ritz claimed her father C.L. Lewis' ran a notorious 'orgy church', that Ray Charles once dubbed a 'sex ...

Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired ...

A look at the career of Tom Wilson, producer for Bob Dylan, Sun Ra, Frank Zappa and The Velvet Underground via five of his greatest production works.

Seeing the artifacts—original instruments, handwritten lyrics, and personal belongings of legends like Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin ... affectionately known as the “Home of a Thousand Hits," still ...

and spontaneously brings up Ray Charles to riff and workout on the track as well. As I wrote several years ago in elegy to her 2018 passing, among so many other things, Aretha Franklin was ... I have ...

The OCCC Visual and Performing Arts Center is hosting R.E.S.P.E.C.T., a full-scale concert celebrating the music and legacy ...

Singer-songwriter-pianist Jon Batiste will be honored with the inaugural Ray Charles “Architect of Sound” Award at the Grammy ...

Jon Batiste will receive the inaugural Ray Charles 'Architect Of Sound' Award at this year's Grammy Hall of Fame Gala.