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His career as an influential tenor saxophonist and composer reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz’s complex evolution during that span.

David Jolicoeur of De La Soul, the rap trio that expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the late 1980s and early ’90s with eclectic samp

The trio expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the 1980s and ’90s, but its early experiments with sampling led to legal troubles, and the group’s longtime exclusion from streaming.

Andy Fletcher, who played synthesizers in Depeche Mode, an electronics-heavy British band that developed a huge fan following and sold millions of records in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. He was 60.

With three others, he created the band in 1980 and rode its synthesizer-driven music to worldwide fame.

He was trained in the classics and jazz, but he helped popularize a new, danceable genre known as timba.

The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to announce this year's online winter concert series, beginning Saturday, February 5, 2022. Working in conjunction with Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn, NY and NYC-based non-profit KEYED UP! for the second time, their esteemed music director Peter Watrous is thrilled to present exciting new musical talent to the Duck Creek community. Their online music series began during the first wave of the pandemic with Watrous’ COVID Commissions. This series of stay-a...

A lifelong champion of the plena genre, he helped rejuvenate it for a new generation both in Puerto Rico and in New York.