entertainment - "music"

Swedish jazz pianist Esbjorn Svennson died last week in a scuba diving accident. He was 44 years old. His trio, known as E-S-T, had a large following in Europe. Svennson's music combined elements of hip hop, funk and rock. He was often called the European Keith Jarrett.

Sunday Morning music critic Bill Flanagan reviews some of the exceptional new albums of the summer.

Those unfamiliar with the Seattle music scene in the early 1990s might not have heard the powerful sounds of The Gits and their lead singer Mia Zapata. After only one album, FRENCHING THE BULLY, Zapata was brutally murdered and the crime went unsolved for a decade. This documentary centers on both the band and Zapata's murder, creating a fascinating picture of a talented musician.

KID ROCK has posted a bizarre online rant, encouraging young fans to steal his music and anything else they want. The star, who this week revealed he is boycotting ...

The striking original score for The Visitor was composed by Academy Award-winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (Finding Neverland). Kaczmarek also composed the beautiful and best-selling soundtrack for the Diane Lane/Richard Gere thriller Unfaithful. Along with the dramatic score, the soundtrack CD includes the Fela Kuti song Je’Nwi Teni (Don’t Gag Me), featured prominently in the film. In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in new york City.Sixty-two-year-old...

Legendary crooner NEIL DIAMOND credits his first wife with his successful music career, because she inspired him to begin writing songs. The Sweet Caroline hitmaker ...

Music Reviews: Hollywood Bowl opening nights tend to be a mishmash of this and that, a something-for-everybody affair that by definition satisfies few.

music mogul SEAN COMBS is impressed by the media's acceptance of his multiple monikers - because no other star has managed to sway the press to take their new ...

Ringo Starr says the most recent incarnation of his All-Starr Band will perform at New York's Radio City music Hall. ...

Legit Reviews: Ouch. Tough luck for St. Ann's Warehouse that much of the theatrical thunder for its hugely ambitious production of 'TR Warszawa's Macbeth 2008' was snatched away by the Brooklyn Academy of music, which got there first with Chichester Festival Theater's brutalist version of Shakespeare's drama.