In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded ``Darktown Strutters' Ball.'' Some historians consider this to be the earliest commercially made jazz record. It was written by Shelton Brooks, who ...

Kilgore, who died Jan. 7, was a talented interpreter of American popular song. We'll remember her by listening back to her in ...

With the final season of Stranger Things still fresh in the cultural bloodstream, the sound of the 1980s is everywhere again.

With a focus on the years between 1960 and 1980, Thurston Moore provides Stewart Smith with ten entry points into the wild ...

An elegant jazz singer with adventurous taste, she counted among her fans the performer Michael Feinstein and the songwriter ...

He stated: “I’d rather go in and just be Jaco. I improvise all the time. Hopefully, I think, I never play the same thing ...

As you know if you ever saw him in a nightclub or plan to see him at Winter’s Jazz Club, Bobby Lewis is defying the calendar.

The Detroitwich Funk Machine brings 70s and 80s funk, jazz-funk and fusion classics to Worcester’s Marr’s Bar, January 22. West Midlands ...

World Cafe correspondent John Morrison joins us to talk about why the East Coast rap group Main Source deserves a spot as one ...

Here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year, from TradFest and Electric Picnic to West Cork Literary ...

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the band’s many latter-day offshoots, has died ...