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The music that saxophonist Pharoah Sanders made in the late Sixties and early Seventies will probably always be categorized as jazz. But that seems wrong, somehow. Where bebop is all about form and its infinite variations, the sounds put forth on Sanders albums such as 1967's Tauhid, 1969's Jewels of Thought, and 1970's Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) – records filled with ...
Wayne Cochran, the influential singer dubbed "The White Knight of Soul" and writer of songs like "Last Kiss" and "Goin' Back to Miami," died November 21st in Miramar, Florida. He was 78. Cochran's son Christopher confirmed to the Miami Herald that the soul singer died following a battle with cancer. Cochran had resided in Florida since the mid-Eighties, when he left the music industry to become ...
Taylor Swift notched her third straight week atop the Billboard 200 as the singer's Reputation added another 147,000 copies to its platinum-plus haul. Swift also became the first female artist since Adele and 25 in early 2016 to spend at least three straight weeks at Number One on the Billboard 200, Billboard reports. more...
Twenty-six years after Nirvana played an acoustic concert to roughly 20 fans at an Edinburgh pub, audio from that unique December 1st, 1991 performance has surfaced online for the first time. Nirvana – the gig's "very special guests" who used the not-so-subtle pseudonym "Teen Spirit" – played a handful of songs at Edinburgh's Southern ...
Taylor Swift remained at Number One as the singer's Reputation added to its 2017-best sales with an additional 256,000 total copies in its second week on the Billboard 200. After going platinum in its opening week – and after another week being withheld from streaming services – Reputation sold 232,000 more traditional ...
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