Dr. Dre gets a cosmic challenge from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his planets-inspired album project in the studio.

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.

The groundbreaking musician Alice Coltrane gets her first comprehensive biography, thanks to author Andy Beta.

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Guitar firebrand Daniel Donato may wear a cowboy hat, live in Nashville, and lead a band with “Country” in its name, but don’t think of him as a standard Nashville act. While Daniel Donato’s Cosmic ...

Sounds like: A big, meditative exhale, sprinkled with stardust.

Calling from his rustic cabin in Tennessee, Daniel Donato is in the middle of woodshedding another of his rootsy ditties. At the age of thirty, the increasingly popular Tele-picker, songwriter and ...