One nice spring day in May 2024, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and his band—a distinctive lineup of pianist Sam Harris, drummer Justin Brown, keyboard player Chiquitamagic, rapper-vocalist ...

What led to the teaming of Beyoncé and jazz trumpet great Terence Blanchard for an operatically inspired Pepsi TV commercial ...

Concerts, films, art exhibits and more are starting the year on a high note all around the Sacramento area this month.

YOU have probably never heard of Irene Higginbottom. She was a prolific composer from the late-30s on and worked with the ...

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Luke Combs and Lil Wayne & The Roots are among the big acts set to headline the New Orleans ...

The drummer of a well-known emo and pop-punk bank from Long Island said he has left the group, citing sobriety and creative differences. After 25 years of rocking out with Taking Back Sunday, Mark ...

The drummer of a well-known emo and pop-punk bank from Long Island said he has left the group, citing sobriety and creative differences. After 25 years of rocking out with Taking Back Sunday, Mark ...

Along Bourbon Street, the flashing blue lights of more police cars than usual cast a strobe effect as music from street drummers, jazz bands, and bar DJs saturates the crisp air. Wide-eyed ...

The drummer is sunny and solicitous under his trucker ... clothes when I was growing up in the Eighties were dreadful, and the shops in my town were awful. To get anything resembling cool clothes ...

Margi Cates, a Missoula singer who grew up in jazz and musical theater ... and worked with producer Allison Miller, a top-flight drummer and composer based on the East Coast.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Heavy metal drummer and vocalist Joshua "Nassaru" Ward – famous for his work in the band “Voraath” – was killed after being struck in a ...