Woodstock 50th anniversary music festival has been officially canceled. Carlos Santana, who performed at the epic 1969 Woodstock festival, talks to The World about the power of music to unite and heal a troubled world.
A video making the rounds online features actors dressed up as peasants singing American jazz standards with Japanese lyrics.
Let the holiday shopping season begin! With the explosion of intangible mp3s, music may have lost its luster as a nice Christmas gift. But it looks like music might have a savior in the form of an old friend: good old reliable vinyl.
Sixties icon Marianne Faithfull on her new covers album, what's on her iPod and the music she calls the soundtrack of her life.
Miles Davis's seminal jazz album, ?Kind of Blue,' turns 50 today. Joining The Takeaway to talk about the impact of this album is WNYC's Evening Music Host Terrance McKnight.
Author Ashley Khan traces Davis' path from aspiring high-note bound bebop lion to the cool-toned result that was to be one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time.
The Peanuts, Star Wars, Sputnik, Miles Davis, and Frank Lloyd Wright -- how these figures, creations, endeavors and events became America's cultural touchtones.
Listen to a rare conversation with the legendary jazz pianist and composer, Keith Jarrett about his career with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette.
Indian musician U. Shrinivas has given a new life to the mandolin. For decades the instrument was shunned in India, restricted to popular music like Bollywood movie soundtracks.
The World's Marco Werman introduces us to "Miles from India," a musical collaboration between jazz musicians from the United States and India that was inspired by the music of the late Miles Davis.
Anchor Marco Werman introduces us to a musician from Benin named Lionel Loueke. He collaborated with jazz icons Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter to produce some of the tracks on his new CD.