Jimmy Smith’s ‘House Party’ is the latest entry in Blue Note Classic Vinyl series. It finds the jazz organist leading an ...

Little Feat, known for their blend of rock, funk, and other genres, released a new album, "Strike up the Band," and will perform at the Brown County Music Center on May 15. The band, whose fans ...

Led by Jocelyn Michelle on the Hammond B3 organ, the Jocelyn Michelle Jazz Organ Quintet will perform Nov. 15 in Kihei. Courtesy photo The Jocelyn Michelle Jazz Organ Quintet will perform in concert ...

The Fourth of July is a holiday that brings people together to celebrate the tradition of being an American. There’s food, not always barbecue, but it’s pretty common. And there’s usually music and ...

Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all know the sounds of the mighty Hammond organ when we hear them, from the ...

He was born March 11, 1947, in Niles, Ohio, to Joseph A. Weeks Sr. and Sannie Marie Migliozzi Weeks. Joseph was a beloved husband of Erica and a loving father to his four children, Victoria, Mark, ...

Country star Clare Dunn has penned a love letter to the Centennial State. “As a people, we are as strong, rugged and vast as the Rockies and the high plains that make up our state,” says the ...

Rarely glimpsed in public, the musicians’ grapevine is a wonder of efficiency, delivering timely information that can profoundly shape an artist’s life and career. Guitarist Dan Wilson’s emergence ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says tenor saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and organist Shirley Scott had one of the great jazz partnerships in the late 1950s. A new anthology focuses ...

Atlanta Rhythm Section keyboardist Dean Daughtry, who cowrote two of the Southern band’s best known ‘70s rock hits, “So Into You” and “Imaginary Lover,” has died. Daughtry was 76. As of publishing, a ...

In the ’60s, Manhattan hosted some of the greatest jazz music ever performed: Count Basie at Birdland, Thad Jones at the Village Vanguard, Miles Davis anywhere and everywhere. But back then Brian ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Dec. 25, 2023. Click here for that audio. If you think of Memphis soul, the sounds of Booker T. and the MG's comes to mind. Booker T. Jones — master of ...