A KISS FOR BRAZIL finds primo jazz singer Karrin Allyson in a blissful, 'kiss-full' bossa nova style and more at Birdland ...

The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) has announced the fourth season of its annual community outreach initiative, ‘NCPA@ThePark, that will present live performances across key locations ...

But in a career that stretched across three-quarters of a century, what may have been more important about this giant of American music — who ... of lush orchestral jazz in which Franklin ...

Quincy Jones version, recorded for his 1973 album You've Got It Bad Girl, is almost unrecognisable as the same song. Lazily ...

Drummer John Densmore loved bossa nova, guitarist Robby Krieger was drawn to flamenco music, while keyboardist Ray Manzarek loved jazz. Put all of these musical styles behind Morrison’s poetry ...

Music is everywhere. Singer Fairouz ... In the MoniQuartet Aouad filters pop and rock through a jazz prism—bossa nova Metallica anyone? On whatever the project, Aouad leaves his indelible and most ...

His birth mother Sarah, for all her personal problems, had already made sure that the music bug bit him hard, and in high school he began to show his jazz chops, as both trumpeter and arranger.

"Through his music and his boundless love, Quincy Jones' heart will beat for eternity," they said. From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, jazz to hip ... "Soul Bossa Nova," while also arranging ...

He traversed Europe with a number of jazz orchestras — but began to realise that a name and talent did not always translate ...

Up to that point, he'd been working with jazz singers like Sinatra ... Written in just 20 minutes, Soul Bossa Nova was inspired by an early-60s fad for Brazilian music, sparked by the success ...

From Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, jazz to hip-hop ... He wrote his own hits, like the addictively cacophonous "Soul Bossa Nova", while also arranging at a breathless pace for dozens of ...