Reflect on the lives of influential figures we lost this year. From music legends to cultural icons, explore the legacies of ...

Samara Joy graduated from college, released three albums, and won three Grammys. She's selling out concerts around the U.S.

The recent death of music legend Richard Perry, best known for producing hit songs like Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” has ...

In our house the Christmas music is still a collection of CDs, kept in a big covered basket that comes up from the basement ...

We’ll hear winter and Christmas tunes, both sacred and secular, sung by some of your favorites, like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and more. Who says Christmas carols can’t ...

In a recent feature with Complex alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop was asked for his “dream blunt rotation,” dead or alive, and he ...

She remade the American songbook in her image, uprooting the very meaning of musical performance. Ella Fitzgerald made singing feel like thinking. Her interpretations of the Great American ...

It’s moving. Let’s be honest here. Around Christmas, everyone wants to hear Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Why not hear them together? “Ella & Louis Wish You a Swinging Holiday” is a ...

There are a bunch of new biographies that look at historical music figures, from Ella Fitzgerald to Joni Mitchell. In “High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul” (Dey Street, $29.99), excellent ...

He wanted to be a track star but now Aaron Pierre is a "Lion King." The British actor talks "Mufasa," singing and his newest ...

Grammy-winning artist Samara Joy is 25, but critics say she reminds them of jazz royalty from the 1940s and 1950s. It isn't the music she grew up with, but Joy is making jazz her own.