Student performances in drama and music — plus an annual crowd-pleasing event for children with special needs — are among the highlights of the spring 2025 season at North Central College in ...

Few people in the history of recorded music have had as profound an impact as Quincy Jones. He’s a legendary composer and performer whose work has crossed multiple genres, races and media, a 30-time ...

The “prosperity gospel" with its detractors and supporters has created quite a stir recently. This controversial message of personal, emotional, and spiritual wholeness has been commended for its ...

[UPDATED] In 2001, Marty Kirkman, a California native with a long-running connection to New Orleans music, was wandering around the racetrack at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, making his ...

{Full Tank}, is not only a showcase vehicle for Ben Tankard’s dynamic skills as an instrumentalist, writer, and arranger, but a musical reminder (through its sizzling production) that this was the ...

Kirk Whalum is a multi-Grammy Award-nominated saxophonist and composer whose work has spanned multiple genres, expressions, and platforms. He has to his credit the "most listened to" sax solo in ...

The Denton Arts & Jazz Festival won’t happen this year, but one local act slated to play the main stage plans to spread some love once the county’s shelter-in-place order is lifted. Jazz saxophonist ...

Believing that the musical forms Gospel Music and Jazz were “separated at birth”, Pete Malinverni has set about reintroducing these two long lost siblings. To that end, he has been composing music for ...

The first time saxophonist Dave Koz played Wolf Trap, he opened for Ray Charles, in a major moment of his early career. Now, a seasoned artist with 12 albums and 20 years of successes behind him, he ...

Just a minute or two after the Shades of Praise choir finished their rousing set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Gospel Tent Friday, an announcer took to the microphone to broadcast the ...

YPSILANTI, MI -- “Remove all the doubts, cause the sun to shine and give peace of mind,” sang the Rev. Tracey McMullan, pastor of Ypsilanti’s Restoration Worship Center. The Sunday, June 19 Worship ...