It’s the last “normal” week of music in New Orleans before music venues shift into overdrive for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Harlem, the place to be. So hip, Roy Haynes once told me, cats said they would rather go to Harlem than to heaven.

James McMurtry will release The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy on June 20 via New West Records. The 10-song collection was ...

Kiss became superstars with Alive! So let’s break it down: the 75 best albums of 1975, complete with a playlist of key tracks ...

Tull’s leader thought using the 5/4 rhythm from Brubeck’s “Take Five” would be commercial suicide, but listeners proved him ...

Nighthawk, Street Dog. Parker Hawkins (aka Nighthawk) is the bassist for Piper & the Hard Times, a Nashville-based blues-rock outfit whose debut CD topped Billboard’s blues album chart last year. He ...

Experts at stitching different genres together into a patchwork quilt of their own design, The Cowboy Junkies have combined ...

At the Palace Theater, Nancy Kelly and her jazz ensemble played a concert as the final event of Colgate University’s annual ...

There are several special releases of interest for our area, including “The Westbound Sound: Foundations,” a second ...

Blues Old Stand’s road-honed sound, as heard on their self-titled 1994 debut album, evoked a mix of WAR, Funkadelic and Jimi ...

In Seattle, two local radio shows on Daybreak Star Radio and KEXP, are joining the efforts to illuminate and celebrate the ...