Hoagy Carmichael

Aside from marching bands, movie scores and classical charts, sheet music is an unknown quantity to most popular and modern music fans, an anachronism of a bygone era. It seems like somewhere around the late 1950s and early ’60s, the era of Sun...

No other orchestra in America looks, sounds or acts quite like Orbert Davis' Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. For though various bands play Third Stream repertoire — a term that loosely refers to jazz-meets-classical fare — the CJP immerses...

As she wound down a recent set at Chambers, in Niles, singer-pianist Judy Roberts leaned into the microphone and delivered what has become her favorite new closing line. "From Amundsen High School at Foster and Damen, I'm Judy Roberts," she proclaimed,...

The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2011 Sounds of Summer Series will feature a performance by popular group Sovereign Brass on Monday, July 11. The concert, titled “Passion and Fury,” takes place at 7 p.m. at the Lowndes Shakespeare...

"I hope I can can get three or four or five seasons," Jason Schwartzman told me in September, just before the start of the second season of "Bored to Death," in which he stars with Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis......

It wouldn’t be a Kanye West record without at least a dash of ego, and sure enough, midway through the rapper’s holiday single “Christmas in Harlem,� in which West paints an atmospheric portrait of the holiday season in New York,......

After accepting the imposingly named BMI Icon Award on Tuesday night, rocker John Fogerty strapped on a guitar and blazed like a bullet train through a brief sampling of the even more imposing songbook that earned him the career honor......

There are only four musicians in Jamie Cullum’s touring band, but that doesn’t include all the additional personalities that the guy keeps in his head. Hoagy Carmichael. Cole Porter. Jimi Hendrix. Ray Charles. Rihanna. Louis Armstrong. Those far-...

Jazz is historically a male-dominated field, and the list of famous female jazz drummers isn’t a terribly long one. But with the rowdily named “Boom Tic Boom,� Allison Miller stakes a claim to being one of the most promising drummers......

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — The one-time home of Indiana-born composer and band leader Hoagy Carmichael has been damaged by a fire. The man who owns the Bloomington house where Carmichael once lived hasn't decided whether the house will be razed or...

Some might see an odd destiny — if not exactly Jerry Garcia’s “long strange trip” — in the formation of the 3-year-old Jazz Docs band. Its five members form a sort of Venn diagram — with Ellicott City dentist Hank...

Howard Fishman Dec. 1. The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook, (860) 510-0453, katharinehepburntheater.org   The singer/songwriter and bandleader Howard Fishman is an energetic omnivore of Americana and beyond. Fishman has...