One of the best surprises came in 2023 when Ville Valo released Neon Noir, his premier solo album containing the tracks from the EP Gothica Fennica Vol. 1 (2020) and more. Valo may stand as an icon of ...

Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old ...

With Veterans day soon approaching, several events celebrating local veterans are springing up along the Central Coast.

By Darlene Donloe Contributing Writer Contemporary jazz trumpeter Rick Braun has been in the holiday spirit since early ...

The Long Bay Symphony Orchestra’s opening concert for the 2024-25 season, “A Gershwin Centennial Celebration,” was presented ...

Born in 1980 in Beirut, Ibrahim Maalouf grew up surrounded by music, with a trumpeter father and a pianist mother. The family ...

Music-world legend Quincy Jones, arguably the greatest producer in all of pop history, has died. Jones is obviously most famous as Michael Jackson’s chief collaborator in the era when Jackson took pop ...

As the man behind some of music's most memorable hits ... He produced albums for Aretha Franklin George Benson and Michael ...

He was known for his work with music icons Michael Jackson ... Quincy was the person who enlisted Eddie Van Halen for a guitar solo in Beat It and used Vincent Price's voice for the voiceover in ...

As a producer, arranger, composer, bandleader and recording artist, he made a powerful mark on nearly every genre he touched.

By the time of his death on Sunday at 91 at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, he had become a renaissance ...

Quincy Jones, who distinguished himself over the course of a 70-year career in music as an artist, composer, producer and ...