An evening of Jamaican music celebration like no other as the UK innovator of dub, Dennis Bovell curates an all-star lineup to lovingly recreate the revolutionary sounds of King Tubby. Having ...

Another reminder — with live musical demonstrations on stage — is coming to Kiggins Theatre. As part of its ongoing History on Tap collaboration with the Clark County Historical Museum, Kiggins will ...

Bassist and composer Mark Izu, a pivotal figure in San Francisco’s Asian American arts scene since the 1970s, has died, ...

Imagine then, a suite of tunes written lyrically in terms of melody, adding spoken word art inspired from one of the classic novels in literary history ... bebop classics, American Songbook ... The ...

Whenever a revolutionarily new means of communication comes along, the young glom onto it and many of their elders believe it ...

Fronted in LA by the magnetic Arthur Lee, Love emerged from the Sunset Strip scene around the same time as The Doors - but where Jim Morrison and co went on to stardom, Love snatched defeat from the ...

When conceiving 2001single 'Pyramid Song', Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke sought jazz, Egyptian mythology, and Stephen Hawking's time theory to aid its genesis.

Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements ...

Kansas City’s American Jazz Museum was little more than a dream at the time. It had neither a name nor a location. But Berkley and others felt it wise to start acquiring artifacts like those ...

The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...

Today in Music History for Jan. 16: ...