Keyboards are a key ingredient in this week’s Courant arts picks. Several organists associated with Connecticut Virtuosi play classical works on the pipe organ at Hartford’s Cyril & Methodius Church, ...

Flack workshopped her version and performed it for the first time while opening for Quincy Jones in 1972 ... Flack attended Howard University at age 15, and eventually taught music in public ...

Talking to Rolling Stone AU/NZ, Jones wishes Lydon, previously known as Johnny Rotten, all the best, but says it wouldn’t ...

Legendary pop/R&B vocalist Roberta Flack ... something of a musical prodigy, she entered Howard University in Washington, D.C., at 15 on a full scholarship. Her graduate work was cut short ...

The singer and pianist began playing the instrument at an early age. When she was 15, she attended Howard University on a music scholarship and was a classmate of Donny Hathaway, a singer with ...

Many country fans hail George Jones as the greatest singer in the history of country music. Songs like “The Grand Tour” helped him secure that title. The single from 1947 didn’t just bring ...

An operatic soprano, she had high-profile roles on film and stage in the 1950s. But after that, she mostly spent her career ...

Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images Supported by By Giovanni Russonello Roberta Flack, the magnetic singer and pianist whose intimate blend of soul, jazz and folk made her one of the ...

Turns out Mayberry was smaller than we knew. Ron Howard, who found fame as a child star on the hit 1960s series “The Andy Griffith Show,” recently shared a photo on social media that showed ...

Chicago soul giant Jerry Butler, who succeeded early hits as lead singer of the keystone R&B group Impressions and a notable solo career with years as a Windy City politician, has died ...