Hampton Barnett Hawes Jr. (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977) was an American jazz pianist. He was the author of the memoir Raise Up Off Me, which won the Deems-Taylor Award for music writing in 1975.

Gravity Sessions, the previous release from Chicago’s Rosetta West, was a short, sharp, and shockingly concise collection of songs, so it is only natural that this time out, the band gives itself more room to work with.

Robert Calvin Bland (born Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer. Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B.

Johnny Otis (December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012), born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes , was a Greek American singer, musician, composer, bandleader, record producer, talent scout, and preacher.

ean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans ([tuts tiləmans]), was a Belgian jazz musician.

Shirley Valerie Horn (May 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist.

Carmell Jones (July 19, 1936 – November 7, 1996) was an American jazz trumpet player. Jones was born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States.

George Hege Hamilton IV (July 19, 1937 – September 17, 2014) was an American country musician. He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, switching to country music in the early 1960s.

SpinalFluidFemme this album is a purely wonderful fragment of the feelings that things from the mid to late 2000s and early 2010 create from nostalgia you were too young to have at the time. I

Jimmy Fallon announces his highly anticipated album, Holiday Seasoning, coming down your chimneys on November 1, 2024 via Republic Records.

'Delta Kream' celebrates the band's roots and features eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards that they have loved since they were teenagers, before they were a band, including songs by R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, among others.

Surfacing from a 2-year hiatus, Lack of Afro (aka Adam Gibbons) is back to reclaim his crown as the king of funk and soul. His new album Square One, sees Lack of Afro in triumphant, defiant mood, emerging bruised but unbowed

Acclaimed for her “superior vocal value” (Boston Globe), Soprano Hein Jung has performed in major cities throughout the US and Korea. These venues include Opera Tampa, Tanglewood Music Festival, San Francisco Opera Merola Program, Milwaukee Symphony, Madison Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, Bel Canto Chorus, Tampa Oratorios Singers.

Superstar violinist Anne Akiko Meyers’ imagination and ingenuity knows no bounds. Her idea to persuade leading living composer Morten Lauridsen to transform his choral masterpiece, O Magnum Mysterium, into a work for violin and choir is a masterstroke. Teaming up with conductor Grant Gershon – who first collaborated with Anne as chamber musicians over 40 years ago – and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, for whom Lauridsen was their first Composer in Residence, Anne rounds out this digital EP with three other arrangements for violin and chorus of ever-popular works by J. S. Bach. The result is gold dust for the holiday season.

No other country in Europe can look back on such a long, continuous and rich jazz history as Poland. In regular waves, new generations of Polish jazz musicians find independent idioms and modes of expression. For the last five years or so, a new one of these waves of young musical personalities can be observed, completely free of fear, detached from the overpowering Komeda-Stanko tradition and individually strongly positioned, finding exciting hinges between art and society.