Some performers spend their careers chasing Carnegie Hall. Harry Connick Jr., however, spent much of his career avoiding it. That isn’t a typo or a misprint. For a musician who has sold more than 30 ...

My column on the Samuel Adams Pub at the Seamen’s Inne at the Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut produced some great responses, but none as special as the phone call I received from Art Doran, the ...

“Eureka!” the thundering cry of the Gold Rush! In 1848, gold was discovered at John Sutter’s Mill in Coloma located on the outskirts of Sacramento. Searching for this precious metal, thousands of ...

Larry Linkin, who had a colorful career as a featured entertainer and the highly-successful head of the largest trade association in the music industry promoting ...

Charles A. Sengstock Jr., a music historian who documented the largely overlooked history of Chicago’s white dance bands and theater orchestras, died July 16 in Northbrook, Illinois. He was 93.

Elliott “Stackman” Callier, a saxophonist who split his life between New Orleans and Portland and spent decades as one of the city’s most in-demand horn men, died August 21 in New Orleans. He was 83.

Mitchell Player, a bassist and music entrepreneur who became a fixture of the New Orleans traditional jazz scene, died September 9 in New Orleans of complications from a recent kidney transplant. A ...

Gregor Benko, a self-taught collector-historian who spent six decades tracking down lost recordings of the great Romantic-era pianists, died August 12 in Syracuse, NY. He was 82. Benko co-founded the ...

And a little bit of wailing too! What a fantastic Labor Day weekend celebration at the 11 th Annual Hot Jazz Jubilee in Sacramento—great bands, venues, audiences and guest musicians with dozens of ...

If I could take anything from my mom, it would be her pathological optimism—the optimism of a single woman with a kid, a cat, and a German shepherd who pulled herself off of welfare by selling ...

Last month, I reviewed Hank O’Neal’s remarkable More Than Music book which contains his colorful stories (along with a countless number of photos) of some of the most interesting musicians and ...

Since 2016, the New Orleans Ragtime Festival has been dedicated to preserving and promoting the vibrant legacy of ragtime music, vintage dance, and early American culture through world-class ...