Ranking the greatest female singers of all time is no easy task – and yes, we already know this list might spark a few ...

This year, Indy Jazz Fest will run from Sept. 17 to 28, featuring “I’m Every Woman” singer Chaka Khan and other jazz masters. Other headliners include the local Steve Allee Magic Hour Band and Marcus ...

A note to those who feel, not without merit, that popular culture is getting so stiflingly politically correct and even “woke” that it is being strangled to death: In 1989, when I published my book ...

The singer Elaine Dame has had an interesting life, so far. She was telling me about its latest chapter earlier this month. It was a few days before her performance at Winter’s Jazz Club and she said, ...

With the soul of a folk singer and the facility of a jazz instrumentalist, McGarry puts her own spin on an evergreen, ever-swinging tradition. “Kate McGarry's sense of musical authenticity is ...

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

Dame Cleo Laine, the singer and actress who has died aged 97, was not only the best jazz vocalist that Britain ever produced, but was also one of the most versatile and enduring musicians from any ...

A jazz star since the 1940s, Anita O'Day was a singer like no other, combining the rhythmic chops of Ella Fitzgerald with the hard-knocks soul of Billie Holiday, and it's high time someone captured ...

The death of Cleo Laine Thursday at the age of 97 has inspired a slew of admiring headlines for the acclaimed English vocal and theater star, nearly all of them hailing her as a great jazz singer.

MacKay, the celebrated musician and mezzo-soprano who spent the '70s as the Grateful Dead's first and only female vocalist, ...