Author: Kevin Lannister

“The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the […]

Art Blakey is a musician who featured a lot of the younger artists as they were coming up. He caught the talent early,  put it […]

His tale of a tough plantation upbringing is well known but it was heartening to know that even late in life he relished thinking about […]

Ray Charles was born into a poor family on September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia, though he was raised in Florida. Completely blind by the […]

Thelonious Sphere Monk was a musician and composer every bit as unique and strange as his name. He worked out his own concept of time, […]

After all, how can we associate vocal songs like Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a wonderful world’ with the same music from Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew’? Aren’t […]

“It’s very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he’s creating, the fact that he’s experiencing the joy of creation makes me […]

“It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you are not.” “If the metal music is work of […]

“Good music doesn’t have an expiration date.” The term“Jazz singer” used to be one of the most controversial terms in the jazz lexicon. Back in […]

The rock legend was born in New York on March 2, 1942, as a child of an accountant and a former beauty queen. His parents […]

The hip-hop is a musical genre and a lifestyle that includes many things, such as music, clothing, slang. The hip-hop of the United States started […]

Leonard Albert Kravitz was born on May 26 1964 in New York. His mother is an actress called Roxie Roker, who is known as the […]

Nick Cave is certainly the most exciting figure in the last four decades of  pop music (active since 1973, but the first album appeared only […]