A disciple of bebop architect Charlie Parker, wunderkind alto saxophonist Jackie McLean was just twenty when he made his recording debut on Miles Davis’ 1951
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“While we were recording The White Album, we ended up being more of a band again,” Ringo Starr would reflect, “and that’s what I always
1967 may be remembered for psychedelic pop and the Summer of Love, but it was also a super-soulful time in chart history. That was thanks
In 1992, poet and LGBTQ activist Essex Hemphill wrote of being Black and openly gay, “we are a wandering tribe that needs to go home
Lady Gaga has long proven herself to be one of pop music’s most versatile performers, equally at home crafting club anthems and heart-wrenching ballads. But
In 1969, when the Alabama blues pioneer Big Mama Thornton inked a deal with Chicago’s Mercury Records to record her third album, Stronger Than Dirt,
Elton John performing in the early 1970s. Photo: Peter Sanders/Redferns The young Elton John struggled to make his voice heard as a singer-songwriter throughout the
First impressing as the resonant-voiced frontman of Poet And The Roots on the 1978 album Dread Beat An’ Blood, political activist-turned-poet-and-essayist Linton Kwesi Johnson emerged
Though still only 29 years old when he recorded Expansions for Blue Note Records at Van Gelder Studio, on Friday, August 23, 1968, Philadelphia pianist
He couldn’t boast the effortless authority of Muddy Waters. He wasn’t an outlandish marketable character like Bo Diddley. He couldn’t terrify you from across the