The first-time host dished behind-the-scenes dirt during an episode of SiriusXM's 'Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend,' including his backstage encounter with Mick Jagger and the thing he'll miss most about ...

This week on Liner Notes, we discuss “Songs from the Big Chair,” the 1985 masterpiece that captured the complexities of human ...

The recordings of vibraphonist Roy Ayers are part of the foundation of contemporary R&B and hip-hop; Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige and ...

I manifested my dream husband. I read a list of qualities I wanted in a partner to a room of strangers, a woman told me I had ...

Michael Weiss has been a leading pianist and composer in jazz spaces for over 30 years. He’s returning to Sculler’s Jazz Club ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

The guitar journeyman has suffered his share of torture during a career of spreading the word about underdogs – and while he ...

The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved minimalism into the mainstream.

Nearing 97, she’s universally praised, freshly republished, and (maybe even) more widely read than ever. She’s also a ...

Doug Kiker of 'American Idol' fame is dead. The 'Singing Garbage Man' made it to Hollywood, was eliminated early, then came back to sing with Rascal Flatts.

At 84, the drummer whose discography includes credits on more than 600 albums is releasing another by his long-running ...

SENDAI--World-renowned musician Ryuichi Sakamoto felt an irresistible pull to a damaged piano at a school building ... the trumpet in the orchestra as one of the first batch of its members.