Sarah Vaughan

The most truthful moment in Friday night's "Sing the Truth!" concert at Symphony Center came toward the end. Spared the heavy over-amplification that marred earlier portions of the evening, singers Dianne Reeves and Lizz Wright took a slow, measured...

In the 1980s, Tony Andriacchi was almost as famous in Chicago as his heroes Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra were around the world. Audiences queued up to hear one of the most lustrous male voices to come out of this city, an instrument that Andriacchi...

The gospel-truth, if you believe most of the history books: Aretha Franklin didn’t really find her true voice until she began working with producer Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records in 1967. "My idea was to make good tracks, use the best players,...

Whether or not you consider Barbra Streisand the last reigning diva of a more lyrical period in American pop music, she certainly stands as a symbol of the era that gave us Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, Lena Horne, Dinah Washington, Doris Day, Sarah Vaughan...

In putting together this overview of the five-decade career of Diana Ross, who this Saturday will be presented with a lifetime achievement award by the Recording Academy, her first-ever Grammy, the goal was to speak to people across disciplines and...

The ArtsQuest Center in Bethlehem has a café – its headline Musikfest Café venue. Now, it will have a cabaret. Actress and singer Lynnie Godfrey will perform tunes from the Great American Songbook in a new monthly series, “An Evening......

Katy Perry performed at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Friday, August 5, with Robyn opening. Live review by August Brown....

A live review of Adele's sold out performance at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Reviewed by Times pop critic Randall Roberts...

The Playboy Jazz Festival emcee mentions George Benson, Thelonious Monk and Etta James as being among those who really got to him....

When Denise Donatelli was growing up in South Whitehall Township in the 1950s and 1960s, her home was a rural enclave: surrounded by farmland divided by Route 309. Denise Donatelli It was there, with no other homes around and a......

As a lifelong fan of popular vocal music, I'm happy to say that I once got to hear Ella Fitzgerald in concert. I once got to hear Sarah Vaughan live. And Saturday evening, I got to hear Linda Eder. But......

Lena Horne, the silky-voiced singing legend who shattered Hollywood stereotypes of African Americans on screen in the 1940s as a symbol of glamour whose signature song was "Stormy Weather," died Sunday in New York City. She was 92 Horne died at New York-...