Florence Price The treasures of the past may seem lost, but often enough, they are merely forgotten, or hidden. Such is the case with ...

The new year brought with it the saddening news that the golden-voiced Natalie Cole (1950-2015) had died of congestive heart failure, at Ce...

(Randolph Denard)  Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 - June 11, 2015) succeeded, through his extraordinary musical gifts and linguistic inven...

It felt momentarily like a light went out in the world when Riley B.--"B. B."--King (b. September 16, 1925, near Itta Bena, Miss...

Cecil Taylor (from All About Jazz) Via his Twitter feed and New Black Man 's blog, a very appropriate tribute for today, Internati...

Whitney Houston in 2009 (AP/Evan Evangelisti) Whitney Houston (1963-2012) Whitney Houston, "The Greatest Love of All" ...