DELAND — His long, big-knuckled fingers are folded over hospital sheets with nothing to do. His tenor saxophone — English-made, pearl-keyed — is out of reach, at home. Noble “Thin Man” Watts hasn’t ...

Ask Jon R. Smith about personal highlights from his 59 years as a saxophone player and he can talk for hours. The Lake Charles native played on “Toulouse Street,” the 1972 album that helped turn the ...

Playing saxophone on the porch of his Crystal Beach cabin for hours at a time is how Dale Gothia will be remembered by his loved ones. Gothia, an original member of the Boogie Kings, died on Tuesday ...

1. The Hut-Sut Song (A Swedish Serenade) 2. Easy to Love 3. Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat 4. Serenade for Strings 5. Jingle, Jangle, Jingle 6. The Warsaw Concerto 7. Rachmaninov Piano ...

Ehren Wright performs a unique brand of EDM music that blends elements of dubstep, reggae and hip-hop with live saxophone accompaniment. He made his Red Rocks Amphitheatre debut nearly five years ago.

AllAfrica publishes around 600 reports a day from more than 110 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish ...

For Helfer, vintage piano dialects are living traditions, not museum exhibits. The 85-year-old Chicago musician helps keep those traditions alive — and passes that knowledge on — with a new album.

Dennis Thomas was one of the founding members of Kool & the Gang, the quintessential R&B music outfit of the Seventies and Eighties, responsible for such hugely memorable and successful tracks as ...

When boogie-woogie blues singer Marcia Ball took the stage in the Blast Furnace Room at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks on Friday, she literally danced to the seat at her keyboard, then continued to ...