Jim Boston, founder of the Great Plains Ragtime Society and the Rags to Riches Festival, in Omaha. Jim Boston was a 20-year-old student at Iowa State University in Ames, walking back to the dorm from ...

Elmer Elijah Mackall, a self-taught Southern Maryland piano player and gospel singer whose music drew on the days of slavery and hard times of the rural South, died of complications from emphysema ...

We’re partial to musical instrument hacks around here, mainly because we find instruments to be fascinating machines. Few are more complex than the piano, and, as it turns out, few are quite so ...

Looking up at a grand piano on the concert hall stage, the third grade students who filed into Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Performing Arts Center on Tuesday weren't sure if they were allowed ...

It used to be that jazz was music of the moment, and that once a style (or the musicians responsible for it) died out, it was gone forever — except on record. These days, though, there’s increasing ...

Westworld is back, in all its maddening complexity. After only one season, the show has become notorious for the deep-cut references and clever Easter eggs hidden within cryptic dialogue, mysterious ...