1980s R&B was defined by a myriad of sounds: from the crossover dance pop of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, to the digital funk of The Time and Cameo, to the smoother adult contemporary fare ...

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Nina Ferro, Topsy Chapman and Stephanie Nakasian join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to recall female singers of the Swing Era— from Ella and Billie to Martha Tilton, ...

Artie Shaw, who rose to fame as one of the swing era’s finest bandleaders and most innovative clarinetists but then slammed the door on the music business with a Shakespearean flourish, died Thursday.

Today most big bands are part-time affairs, with leaders writing most if not all of the charts. These arrangements provide each band with its own musical personality, with the writing slightly more ...

The former Manor Inn in Rensselaer, now home to Casey's Restaurant, was a popular destination for music fans during the swing era. Circa-1940 entertainment and restaurant advertisements in the Times ...

Once upon a time, before trap drums and marginal talent ruled the airwaves, a 19-year old kid from Harlem redefined the sound of contemporary R&B. By fusing the intensity of hip-hop, the universal ...

This article originally appeared on Kveller. Printed in black and white and bigotry all over, Nazi official Hans Severus Ziegler’s brochure for his public exhibit in Dusseldorf featured an African ...

Bill Savory was a Harvard dropout. He was also a piano player, an avid music fan and a brilliant audio engineer. And in 1935, he was hired by a New York "transcription service" -- in an era before ...