What’s In Your Fridge is where the Straight asks interesting creatives about their life-changing concerts, favourite albums, and, most importantly, what’s sitting beside the Heinz ketchup in their ...

Grab your lawn chairs and picnic blankets, because the Cheyenne Civic Concert Band, better known as the Cheyenne City Band, returns on June 2. The City Band is a free, “y’all come” ...

Jazz is smooth and sweet and Chicago made it famous, taking the music that originated in New Orleans, and putting a new spin on it.

Medical professionals say that moving to music is a great way for older adults to stay healthier as they age. It doesn't matter what kind of dancing. Line dancing, ballroom ...

Rollins, who died May 25, had for decades been hailed as the greatest living jazz musician. Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation, and we listen back to Rollins' 1994 interview with Terry Gross.

By the end of his life, no jazz musician of his importance was left—but then again, hardly anyone ever reached Rollins’s ...

Anthony Almonte, percussionist for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, has just released the new album, 'Conversando Con La Luna.' ...

Miles Davis authored five musical revolutions with five different teams, by building a system for creating innovation through ...

A century after the birth of trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist John Coltrane, the seminal jazz innovators still pose a ...

Ralph Johnson's life in Earth, Wind & Fire took some unexpected turns. He tells us about them and his new memoir, "Rhythm & ...

There are many things about Miles Davis to remember as we mark 100 years since his birth. There’s the 1950s and 60s elegance and lyricism, with his Harmon muted trumpet, the tone of which was once ...