The year was 1972 and Charles Owens’ reputation as one of the most gifted and versatile young musicians in Los Angeles was growing by the day. At the time, Owens — who’d already earned attention for ...

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89.

Rare is the chance to talk to a genius, and even rarer when that genius is not the troubled kind but one with great focus and inner peace. That is Herbie Hancock, a gentle genius of music, a living ...