The Grateful Dead original who – in the last 30 years of his life – stepped out from Jerry Garcia’s shadow to emerge as a ...

As a young man in his native Japan, Mostoshi Kosako walked away from a lucrative promising medical career to become a jazz ...

Genesis told Steve Hackett they liked a song on his second solo album. The song was one of the reasons he’d quit the band ...

There wasn’t a single piece of American music that Eric Clapton couldn’t fall in love with, and he knew what it was all about back then.

Often completely out of tune and rarely in time, the group of sisters forced to play together by their father gained an army of fans from Frank Zappa to Kurt Cobain. A new documentary celebrates their ...

Known for playing bass guitar in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea is releasing his first solo album -- and it features his first love: jazz trumpet. It's called "Honora." ...

Immanuel Wilkins seems poised to become the alto player of the moment. (His only real competition for the crown, if we even ...

The shred trailblazer on his “mouse heartbeat,” the jazz great who makes him want to give up – and the most courageous thing ...

This is a really big week for new releases in Indie Basement and I review nine, including The New Pornographers, Fcukers, and ...

The guitar great looks back on the “improbable serendipities” that punctuate his 50-year career, and hails the guitar he’s ...

From blues-rock royalty to stadium-filling superstars, Fleetwood Mac have done it all. But which of their many lineups is the ...

In this installment of Shakedown Beat, WAMC's Josh Landes interviews the band Spafford and reviews three dates of the tour ...