Navigating what to do, see, hear, and eat in New Orleans during Jazz Fest season can feel overwhelming. This guide will get you started.

Over a 15-year career that began in Boston’s jazz and old-time scene, Nashville-based Miss Tess has distinguished herself with a hybrid blend of contemporary songwriting and vintage, swinging ...

Researchers believe they are finally closing in on the location of the first Acadian settlement in the area of southwestern Louisiana known as Acadiana.

NEW YORK — Does Broadway need another Stephen Sondheim revue? Sure, if performed by his old friends. Given the late Sondheim’s godlike status among musical theater fans, it’s hardly ...

After three Broadway revues of Stephen Sondheim’s music you would think a fourth wouldn’t offer anything fresh, have any surprises, or be anything special. Think again. “Old Friends” began ...

A pair of 4,000-year-old cymbals might have helped immigrants integrate into new cultures in the ancient world 1. Humans have been making music for millennia. By the third millennium bc ...

The electrical amplification, he said, “enabled more dynamic range of recording frequencies, music could sound more ... at the time were dusty old Greek and Roman tragedies and Shakespeare ...

As he stopped in front of a girl, she supposedly said she was 16, and the Bedtime singer got the music turned down and asked her: "How old did you say you were? Did you say 16?" The 46-year-old ...

But let's just say, you will no longer find me in a shop flicking through new, heavyweight versions of decades-old LPs whose original release was ... a 1980s album is tough to justify for music I may ...

This is Episode No. 100 of “Music for a While.” To mark the occasion, Jay presents music associated with that number: 100. So, we can consider this a centennial celebration.

PHILADELPHIA — It was 100 years ago this month that "Joan of Arkansas" changed the course of recording history. That’s the title of the 1925 production from the University of Pennsylvania’s ...

Swamp Dogg’s album ‘Rat On!’ Elektra Records “He came from Portsmouth, Virginia, and he sang soul music, traditional kind of soul music, early in his life,” McClutchy explained.