The challenge for Barbara Kingsolver and Yiyun Li: capturing how dedication to the piano can be a source of joy and pain.

Long before jazz became a global language, Belgium gave it one of its most recognisable voices. The saxophone, invented by ...

In Yiyun Li’s new historical novel, two pianists on opposite sides of the world are brought inexorably together, by music.

One of Led Zeppelin’s most famous songs has a surprising blues ancestry, a missing songwriting credit and a legal battle that ...

On this day (October 12) in 1938, Jean King was born in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in Utah, she earned a scholarship to study music at USC in Los Angeles. There, she began her professional singing ...

The genius of this jazz pianist, who was born 109 years ago in 1917, was not always well understood, but today he is revered ...