Music

Marsalis, the NEA Jazz Master, Grammy Award-winning saxophonist and Tony Award nominee, is a member of New Orleans’ most distinguished musical family.

I was searching when I first heard Alice Coltrane's music.

Although you may not have seen it on television, Philadelphia was represented broadly in last night’s Grammy Awards.

By Monday morning, this year's snapshot will have come fully into focus. Here are five looks at how it might play out — and the story it might tell.

Nearly 10 years after her DSO debut, Elena Urioste returns in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, part of the orchestra’s ongoing exploration of his works.

It is safe to say that there was no one else like Mark E. Smith.

Biologists and musicians are still wondering a question that goes back more than a century.

Blues guitarist Todd Simpson has a genetic disorder. His family calls his innate musical talent a gift from God. Some scientists wonder if it came from a tiny blip in his DNA.

The Fall is known as one of the defining post-punk bands of the mid-1980s, mixing punk's acerbic attitude with various elements of krautrock, garage rock and art rock.

"[Our] hearts beat with profound loss," the Masekela family said in a statement.

Philadelphia Orchestra musician in residence visits inmates to hear about their lives, experience their surroundings.

After fleeing hurricane devastation, a young pianist gets back on the ivories in Philadelphia.

Valley Day School in Bucks County takes a trauma-informed approach to its students who have behavioral or emotional issues. Singer/songwriter Sam Baker can relate.

In the interest of trying to experience all music, I was fast approaching a saturation point that was rendering me numb.

Hawkins, whose 1970 Grammy-winning hit, "Oh Happy Day" became a crossover pop and r&b hit, died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pleasanton, California.