Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown

Trumpeter Clifford Brown, a brilliant improviser and a model for clean-living in jazz, was born  (October 3) in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1930.Brown was a pioneering trumpeter when it came to bebop and hard-bop, an artist whose effervescent personality, warm tone and...
Top 10 Films of 2023

Top 10 Films of 2023

10 – Action Blockbuster – Godzilla Minus One – dir. Takashi Yamazaki 9 – Documentary – Beyond Utopia – dir. Madeleine Gavin 8 – Animation – The Boy and The Heron – dir. Hayao Miyazaki 7 – Horror – Talk...
Frank Farian

Frank Farian

By Peter Keepnews Jan. 23, 2024, 11:51 a.m. ET Frank Farian, the German record producer who was best known as the mastermind of Milli Vanilli, the duo that scaled the charts in 1989 but fell from grace when it was revealed that they didn’t do any of the singing on...
Marlena Shaw

Marlena Shaw

Marlena Shaw, the legendary jazz and soul singer behind such hits as “California Soul” and “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy,” has died at 81....
Larry Carlon

Larry Carlon

Larry Carlton is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts such as Steely Dan and Joni...