The eminent hard-bop pianist’s 1968 Blue Note album found him embracing the counterculture zeitgeist.

Drowning in an endless sea of algorithm-driven tracks, the modern music landscape feels more like a numbers game than an art form. As AI-generated and formulaic hits flood streaming platforms, true ...

The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

Rev. Veranita Alvord has been lead pastor of Brevard First United Methodist Church for almost three years. While she’s still ...

Reflecting on his journey as an artist, Malaysian music artist Sasi The Don who likes being called the "Reggae Ambassador of ...

Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a new film about Sly Stone directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, available on ...

Music is more than sound—it’s healing, connection, and history. Discover how it influences emotions, relationships, and even ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Ifetayo an Afro-centric 1976 album by the unique Trinidadian Black Truth Rhythm Band is reissued by Soundway Records ...

Memphis and Shelby County formally affirmed their “sister city” relationship with a longtime cultural ally, Porretta Terme, a village in Italy.

The Grammy Award-winning bandleader for The Roots says the feeling was particularly acute in 2021, when his documentary ...

Karl Paulknack, concert pianist and dean of music for Ithaca College in New York says, I m not just an entertainer I m a lot ...