July and August of this year will be the months for free jazz, as the free Jazz Trail Concert Series returns for its third year. Hosted by the Kupferberg ...

Imagine if Louis Armstrong had never seen a cornet as a child. Or Picasso never had paint and brushes when he was young. What ...

In 1934, a homeless seventeen-year-old named Ella Fitzgerald stepped onto the Apollo Theatre stage, abandoned her planned ...

This article was originally published on January 11, 2023. We are recirculating it now that Green Day’s Saviors is out. Billie Joe Armstrong is, in his own way, still fighting the punk fight. Most ...

At 91, trumpet great and pop music impresario Herb Alpert sounds pretty darned good. The beloved musician brought his "Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass & Other Delights" tour to San Francisco's Davies ...

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University, which houses the archives of its namesake Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, welcomed its first visitors ...

When Desmond Armstrong faced the media at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, the opening question he was asked wasn't about the remarkable feat of the USA team reaching the tournament for the first time in ...

Musician John B. Williams, who played on both The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall's self-titled late-night series in the early '90s, has entered hospice care, ...