In some ways, The Preservation Hall Jazz band is the face of New Orleans. Here is the beginning of the profile of the band at its site, which is split between...
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Two of the biggest stars in modern music — Neil Young and Eric Clapton — are fans of JJ Cale, who died in July 2013. Cale’s site offers a...
Perhaps if the certain things had happened differently, some of the incredibly talented guitarists born in England in the 1940s who we now know as rockers...
Here is the beginning of the bio of flugelhornist and trumpeter Clark Terry: Clark Terry’s career in jazz spans more than seventy years. He is a world-class...
I didn’t see the whole thing, but I felt that one of one of the best musical moments last night was Eric Clapton’s acoustic version of Nobody Knows...
It seemed like a good idea to feature one of the bands that played in last night’s Sandy-a-thon at Madison Square Garden, so here is the beginning of...
Here is The New York Times obituary and a nice piece at NPR about Ravi Shankar, who died today at age 92. A previous post containing a clip of Shankar on The...
Here is the beginning of the band’s Wikipedia profile: Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia...
The jazz pianist turns 74 today. Above is Monk’s Dream. Avery Sharpe is on bass and Aaron Scott is on drums.
Merle Travis is one of the great country guitar players of the middle part of the 20th century. He also is noteworthy for writing Sixteen Tons, which was a big...
