In part two of our interview, Batiste joins us from the piano and plays some of his favorite Christmas songs. He's the former ...

Luigi Mangione, a suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is escorted by police from an NYPD ...

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The Early Four Tops recorded for a number of labels including Columbia and Chess. In 1963, the Four Tops came to the attention of their hometown upstart Motown Records. “Duke” Fakir remembers the ...

The name of Eddie Kendricks was soon to become as well known among R&B fans as the group itself. Eddie Kendricks enjoyed a decade of hits with The Temptations, but by 1971, he'd had enough of ...

Saturday is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. It's not only the shortest day of the year, but the official arrival of astronomical winter. "At 4:20 a.m. EST, the solstice marks the ...

Plus, with the usual holiday hits adorning the top of the pop charts, it's time to dig a little deeper into the Billboard Holiday 100 and glean a sense of which recent-vintage songs have a shot at ...

At a time when more than half of the American diet comes from processed, packaged foods, the Food and Drug Administration has new rules aimed at helping people make healthy choices in the grocery ...

It’s Christmastime in the city. During the season, one thinks of silver bells, busy sidewalks filled with shoppers, and the wonderful music. One of the musical gifts that New York brings to the world ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead is going to review a newly released recording of a concert he attended in 1978 by pianist Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Kevin says the colorful ...

Despite their long standing collaborative relationship, composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes and drummer/producer Jack DeBoe had never done an ...