Paul McCartney's favorite songs are about what you'd expect: the kind of music that a fellow musician would respect.

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Jez Butterworth's "The Hills of California," directed by Sam Mendes, rises above a strong New York season of playwriting.

As the American star prepares to play the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, he talks kindred spirits, tragic loss, and how music ...

Noel Coward is a name that seems to have dropped from the modern lexicon and that’s entirely unfair. I’d done my fair share ...

Gaga’s cover of Nat King Cole’s “Smile,” however ... Sure, I love freaky-deaky Mother Monster Gaga—but her flair for the dramatic can make you forget just how amazing a singer she ...

Her mother desperately wanted a big family ... Maureen got her love of music from her father, who often had Nat “King” Cole playing on the phonograph. As a small child, he would pick her ...

Ella Fitzgerald or Nat King Cole from her father's record collection. Her mother Phyllis was renowned for her hospitality and for keeping a warm and stable household which Elaine feels has grounded ...

Barely a fortnight after spending two days and two nights at Justin Bonello’s Cederberg farmstay, I feel like a homesick boy in a school hostel dormitory, longing for home. Could this ever be home to ...

Brooklyn-born, he grew up surrounded by the sounds of jazz, blues, and R&B. His mother often played records by artists like Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. These influences shaped ...