Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was in the front row for the opening set. The great jazz drummer Roy Haynes was in the same chair for the second set, which brought a huge smile to Charlie ...

Boogie-woogie is a kind of blues piano playing in which the left hand drones a set bass phrase over & over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country night got started with the one and only Pearl. Here's a few clues she dropped before taking the stage: "The biggest stars ...

The Ezra Charles Band was playing tighter than ever in its decades-spanning history when its leader decided to pull the plug. Charles - a remarkable pianist from Beaumont - received a lifetime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It wasn’t that long ago that country singer Gretchen Wilson was immobile, having shattered her left leg, both of her leg bones and ...

Sometime in the 2000s, I became hooked on an online video game called “Pac-Mondrian.” It was like “Pac-Man” — you gobbled dots while running from ghosts — but replaced that game’s grid labyrinth with ...

Sue Palmer became a San Diego favorite in the 1980s and 1990s as a key member of the bands Tobacco Road and the world-touring Candye Kane & The Swingin’ Armadillos. But when this award-winning pianist ...

The Rolling Stones' plans (or lack thereof) have been front and center lately, but while they've yet to do much of anything this year, that hasn't kept drummer Charlie Watts from keeping busy. The ...

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts joyfully moonlights with his rollicking crew at New York's Iridium jazz club. On the set list: the cheekily-titled “More Sympathy for the Drummer.” By Frank Scheck ...