December 2023

Jaco Pastorius often told people that he was the greatest bass player in the world. During his brief, mercurial career, there was enough truth to...

In the 1970s, guitar-centric rock culture largely looked at synthesizer players as nerds who needed to get a life. The following decade, it was the...

Diana Ross was no stranger to performing Christmas songs by the time she recorded A Very Special Season in 1994. She had released a seasonal...

In his desire to leave the jazz indie label Prestige and join the affluent major Columbia, for a lucrative recording deal that would eventually establish...

In 1969, Chico Buarque decided to extend a month-long vacation in Italy indefinitely. The self-imposed exile happened mostly for security reasons: A play he’d written...

The opening track from Songs From The Big Chair was making its big entrance for Tears For Fears on December 1, 1984. The band debuted...