Katherine Laverne Starks, known as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became ...

Kay Starr was born July 21, 1922 on a reservation in Doughterty, Oklahoma, with a strongly Native American heritage and some Irish as well. She's a singer whose style, which jazz writer Gary Giddins ...

Charlie Biddle, 76, a leader of Montreal’s jazz scene in the 1950s and ‘60s who played bass with pianist Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Charlie Parker, died Tuesday in Montreal after a battle with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The breezy, intricate, Jorge Rossy-penned themes that dominated this two-set gig ranged from gentle Latin ...