He was a member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio when it reached the Top 10 with “The ‘In’ Crowd,” and he later had a hit as a co-leader with the funky “Soulful Strut.” By Alex Traub Redd Holt, a drummer who ...
Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with “Feels So Good” in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by multiple ...
The segment kicked off with “Seems Like Old Times,” first recorded by Guy Lombardo’s orchestra in 1945 and since covered by ...
What my time outside pop has taught me is how much of a circus the music industry has become,” says Stephan Moccio. “Social media has chewed up and chomped out music through their garburator.” ...
Chuck Mangione, the jazz musician whose "Feels So Good" cracked the pop top 10 chart in the 1970s, died Tuesday at 84 years old, officials said. He was 84. Mangione died "peacefully" in his sleep at ...
With the Grammys coming next week and the Oscar nominations out, I've been thinking about the ways the culture industry — including writers like me — throws things into buckets in order to see what ...
Patrick Bartley considers both jazz and Japanese his second languages. The American saxophonist, known for bright bebop solos ...
Since its founding nearly ten years ago by drummer Dave Watts, The Motet has produced almost as many albums, mixing a mosaic of influences from African to Latin, and from western pop to dance club ...
When we say the winter music calendar has everything we are barely exaggerating. The season has multiple Pixies-related projects, Huey Lewis covers, century-old operas, rising pop stars, and New ...
Ramsey Lewis, a pianist who sustained connections between jazz and popular music at a time when those bonds often seemed fragile and imperiled, died on Monday in Chicago, his hometown. He was 87. His ...