Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleo Laine at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho, 1969 - David Redfern/Redferns Dame Cleo Laine, the singer and actress who has died aged 97, ...

Sheila Jordan, the jazz vocalist who tugged at the boundaries of music whether she was scat-singing or freshly interpreting songs by Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hart, or Jimmy Webb, died on Monday. She ...

A Purchase College graduate is celebrating a major career milestone this morning after another big win at the Grammy Awards. Jazz singer Samara Joy took home the award for Best Jazz Vocal Album for ...

The death of Cleo Laine Thursday at the age of 97 has inspired a slew of admiring headlines for the acclaimed English vocal and theater star, nearly all of them hailing her as a great jazz singer.

This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember jazz singer Sheila Jordan, who had a devoted following among jazz fans, though she was less well-known to wider audiences. She died Monday at the age of 96 ...

Of all the folk songsters from the 1960s, Mitchell has proven to have the strongest influence on jazz singers. Joni's Jazz features her collaborations with stars like Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.

Neil Diamond decided to try something different when he took his first major acting role in The Jazz Singer in 1980. Unfortunately, most film critics found him and the film in which he starred to be ...