The Sidney Poitier film To Sir, With Love featured the singer Lulu. During the climatic scene in the film — right before she sang the title song...
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PhysOrg.com has an interview with Patrik Wikström, an associate professor of music at Northeastern University, on the changing ways in which people are...
Jazz players and fans spoke about Art Tatum with the same awe that Hendrix or Clapton would elicit decades later. The feeling is best conveyed by quotes such...
The choice for today’s post came down to either part 1 of Verklaerte Nacht (part 1) by Arnold Schoenberg as performed by the Chamber Music Society of...
Yesterday was the first full day of autumn. Great photos behind Billie Holiday.
Ninety-three year old Pete Seeger isn’t slowing down. This week, he is releasing two discs: Pete Remembers Woody and A More Perfect Union. The Woody in...
Few performers come close to the intensity of Al Green. Here is part of the AllMusic bio of the artist, who is as at home in the gospel and soul worlds: The...
Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart discussed the benefits of music with attendees at the AARP convention in New Orleans. Hart and Adam Gazzaley, a...
The management of this site (that would be me) is happy to say Happy Birthday and love to Emily…
At Huffington Post, Alan Elsner gives positive reviews to two books. The Secret Piano, a memoir from pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, describes her suffering under Mao...
