Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the jazz notables who died this year, including Sheila Jordan, Andy Bey, Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Chuck Mangione, Eddie Palmieri and Jim McNeely. This is FRESH AIR ...

This is FRESH AIR. Today, our jazz historian, Kevin Whitehead, looks back at seven jazz notables who died this year. He earlier paid tribute to band leader Jack DeJohnette and to my late husband, the ...

"Song Sung Blue," a movie about a Neil Diamond tribute act, seems like a hokey project for Craig Brewer, the director of such gritty dramas as "Hustle & Flow" and outrageous biopics as "Dolemite Is My ...

Carroll Community Chorus’ Christmas concert Sunday afternoon, Dec. 14, at St. Paul Lutheran Church featured a variety of selections from traditional sacred to festive. Some of the selections from the ...

Saturday's game between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears began as a typical cold-weather, defensive NFC North battle, but the hard hitting caught up with the Packers in the second quarter.