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What’s That Sound? By Peter Gerstenzang For a man who’s got the blues, Robert Cray is actually a pretty chipper dude. Cray will be singing and slicing off some of his trademark sizzling guitar solos at The Tarrytown Music Hall, on Wednesday. He tells funny stories, laughs easily and...

By NICK MCGREGOR Back in the early 1980s, blues music was languishing behind the dance-pop, hip-hop and hard rock taking the MTV world by storm. But handsome, honey-voiced guitar slinger Robert Cray made one of the first forays into that celebrity stratosphere with his 1985 hit “Smokin’...

One of the evening’s most poignant moments came when the late Amy Winehouse’s parents joined Tony Bennett onstage to accept the GRAMMY for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Body And Soul,” from Bennett’s Duets II album. When Winehouse’s father recalled...

GRAMMY & SOUL TRAIN AWARD NOMINEE ANTHONY DAVID JOINS J. CARTER TO LEAD SOUL TRAIN FLASH MOB IN ATLANTA MAJOR EVENT TO HONOR DON CORNELIUS! (Atlanta, February 6, 2012) In honor of the late great Don Cornelius, and in the spirit of the Flash Mob Soul Train lines held in NYC and Chicago,...

Jan 31, 2012 4:45 AM EST Del Rey’s album will be released Tuesday after hate has been heaped upon her for her Saturday Night Live performance and hazy past. But has she already won? Tricia Romano reports. Type the words “Lana Del Rey” into Google, and you will find more than 40 million...

The African-American Musical Mosaic at the American Museum of National History Museum Kids (ages six and up) try their hand at mancala, an African board game played with seeds or stones that opponents seek to capture (noon–1pm). Assistant curator Alex de Voogt will be on hand to explain the...

The American Museum of Natural History celebrates African-American History Month with Global Weekends: The African-American Musical Mosaic on Saturday, February 18, from noon to 6 pm. The festivities, which include family-friendly activities and live musical performances, are presented in...

Most of the work on Location Location Location, the new album by Anthony David, will ring familiar to long time fans. Seven of the ten tracks were featured on David’s prior studio projects. Those projects – Three Chords and the Truth, The Red Clay Chronicles and As Above So Below – are...

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Jason William Mizell (January 21, 1965 – October 30, 2002), better known by his stage name Jam Master Jay, was an American musician and rapper. He was the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-D.M.C. and helped define the sound of the band, the style of the black hats and Adidas shoes that...

Christopher Loudon reviews one of last year’s most exciting jazz vocal releases. By Christopher Loudon René Marie doesn’t care what this review says. She makes that clear right off the top in the title track, a nakedly bold career mission statement that dismisses the “blah-blah-blah...

By Howard Cohen hcohen@MiamiHerald.com •   Amy Winehouse, Lioness: Hidden Treasures (Universal Republic) ★ ★ ★ “Like smoke, I stick around,” Winehouse rasps on a tune of the same name on her first posthumous release since her death in July at age 27. As a pop culture figure,...

Written By:NEKESA MUMBI MOODY Image Credit: Getty Images Amy Winehouse, “Lioness: Hidden Treasures” (Universal Republic) Although “Lioness: Hidden Treasures” serves as Amy Winehouse’s posthumous album and the follow-up to 2007′s “Back to Black,”...

Reviewed by Melissa Maerz Image credit: Matt Dunham/AP ‘Like smoke, I stick around,” Winehouse purrs on Lioness: Hidden Treasures. It’s a strange thing to hear the late songstress promise: Sticking around was never really her thing. For her, anything not meant to last — the...

By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY Rock critics have long harbored a fascination with and affection for artists who die young, particularly those who seemed bent on self-destruction. Had Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain lived longer and more sensibly, it’s a safe bet that all would...

By JON PARELES, JON CARAMANICA and NATE CHINEN She didn’t leave much behind. That’s the inescapable fact of Amy Winehouse‘s posthumous collection, “Lioness: Hidden Treasures.” The album’s 12 songs are the leftovers from a singer and songwriter who was promising on her 2003 debut...

How addiction took the singer’s life, and the great new LP she left behind by: David Browne Amy Winehouse performs in Balado,Kinrosshire, Scotland on July 13th, 2008 Photo: Ross Gilmore/Redferns In the spring of 2009, Amy Winehouse and producer Salaam Remi were working in the new studio...

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Written By: Jim Farber Amy Winehouse’s ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures’ gives last glimpse at singer’s fleeting greatness The Amy Winehouse posthumous compilation album “Lioness: Hidden Treasures” She sounds like a singer in full command, robust in...

By DAN AQUILANTE Will the late Amy Winehouse go down in history as a musical genius — or merely as a drug-addled woman with a bizarre beehive ’do and as many personal troubles as colorful tattoos? Her posthumous album “Lioness: Hidden Treasures,” released today, is a strong argument...