Preston Lauterbach's new book, "Before Elvis," celebrates the many Black artists who shaped Elvis Presley’s creative vision and musical style.

Beyoncé winning the best country album Grammy with Cowboy Carter forces us to face our fixation with ‘genre’ – and rightly so ...

Known as Daddy G, he recorded with Jackie Wilson, Chuck Willis and others, but he was best known for the Gary U.S. Bonds ...

Canlis, opened in 1950, has been run by two brothers since 2007. One of them, along with the executive chef, is leaving.

Van Morrison has announced a third and final show to his run of Belfast dates in February. The Belfast singer will now play ...

He got his start as a professional singer on the gospel circuit where he first met Dave Prater in the late 1950s. In 1961, they became reacquainted while performing at the King of Hearts club in ...

Gene “Daddy G” Barge, an admired and durable saxophone player, songwriter and producer who worked on hits by Natalie Cole, ...

For a roughly 13-year period, from the mid-1950s until King’s assassination in 1968 ... Cooke put all of the soul of a former gospel singer into it. Meanwhile, Curtis Mayfield, frontman for The ...

Jazz in Saudi Arabia With the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz… and The State Department ...

Soul Music legend Candi Staton ... Maggie Staton Peebles (who alongside Staton was a member of the Jewel Gospel Trio in the 1950s), joins her for two duets. The first, “It’s Gonna Rain ...

They transformed the “call and response” of gospel music into a frenzied stage show ... He and Prater performed in soul and R&B clubs in the 1950s, but didn’t meet until 1961 in Miami.

When a group of people comes together for the love of music, with friends who feel more like family, a powerful thing can ...