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 ...

Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain — who united musicians from diverse cultures and by doing so, shaped modern world music — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As I've been going through the always agonizing process of making my year end lists, a comment made by Nadav Lapid, one of the subjects of the documentary Room 999, kept coming to mind. That film ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the operator of Zelle, as well as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo "for failing to protect consumers from widespread fraud" at the payment ...

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

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 ...

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 ...