With her performance at the Unity Festival Apartheid in 1991,  Letta Mbulu  returned triumphantly to her homeland of South Africa. Having...

Marian McPartland  became famous for hosting her Piano Jazz radio program beginning in 1978, but she was a well-respected pianist decades ...

ilton was born James Milton Campbell Jr., in the  Mississippi Delta  town of  Inverness  and raised in  Greenville  by a farmer and local...

Australia's first guitar hero,  Lobby Loyde  helped shape the sound of classic local bands such as  Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs  and ...

Lorenzo Aitken  (22 April 1927 – 17 July 2005), better known by the stage name  Laurel Aitken , was an influential Caribbean singer and on...

It would be all too easy to simply write this off as a mere exploitation knock-off designed to catch naive hippies. It certainly is that, ...

Krautrock group based in Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany who disappeared from the scene after 2 album releases. In 1972 "Both ...

In 1973, when the movie The Harder They Come was released, reggae was not on the radar screen of American pop culture. The soundtrack went...

Her sultry delivery earned  Justine "Baby" Washington  R&B chart bows in four different decades, most notably on the delecta...

Cheap Thrills , the major-label debut of  Janis Joplin , was one of the most eagerly anticipated, and one of the most successful, albums o...

Formed August 1969 by Jess Roden following his split from The Alan Bown Set, Bronco were signed to Island Records and released two albums ...

Fellow Cleveland types  Pere Ubu  may have won the artistic kudos for their adventurous, surprising work, but if the goal was just to rock...

Bassist, composer, and bandleader  Graham Collier  may have gotten the short shrift early in his career for not taking the same iconoclast...

After the subtleties and suppleness of 1970's  The Time Is Near... ,  the Keef Hartley Band 's third full-length, the group return...

Robert Palmer 's third album is a blue-eyed soul disc that sits comfortably alongside Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley and  Pressu...