Jim Babjak of the Smithereens and music renaissance man Glen Burtnik know this well. The two rockers with New Brunswick roots ...

Houston was some singer, and that’s reaffirmed by “The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban).” Sadly, the album also shows how the pop diva’s incomparable talent was misspent before she died in 2012 ...

Acclaimed vocalist Thomas Claxton has assembled another supergroup of music industry session legends for his latest “Me ... Barbra Streisand to D’Angelo, Cat Stevens to Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin to ...

During his seven-decade-long career, Jones produced several hit albums for iconic musicians like Frank Sinatra, Aretha ...

While music seeks to entertain us, most songs also tell a story. Whether Lyfe Jennings preaches the effects of casual hookups ...

They made three landmark albums that changed the landscape of American popular music. Quincy Jones, the man known simply as ...

The decades-long career of Quincy Jones sprawled across landmark jazz, pop, R&B and soundtrack recordings. Here are 15 of the best.

Jones ventured out of the jazz genre and produced his first hit single, “It’s My Party,” a Lesley Gore song ... of music they want and still have everyone buy it.” The people Mr. Jones worked with ...

Arrangement transforms a song from notes on paper into a fully realized piece of art that resonates with listeners. In essence, an arranger acts as a musical architect, designing the structure of a ...

Quincy Jones, who passed away Sunday, helped produce Michael Jackson’s albums “Off The Wall,” “Thriller,” and “Bad.” ...

But in a career that stretched across three-quarters of a century, what may have been more important about this giant of ...

On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, we feature classics and new songs that celebrate We The People.