Best known for his Boston Pops Orchestra recordings, conductor Arthur Fiedler - trademarked by his distinctive white hair and moustache - was a truly great man. Trained as a violinist in Berlin before  …

Cypress Hill's chunky chart-topper "Insane In the Brain" is loco in every way - from its wailing, fire alarm loops to its pummeling, slap-some-fool-upside-his-head tempo. As a primer, it's indicative o …

Sade's plush voice and sultry music carry a belief in romance as a necessary pleasure, even a healer. (Her promise to remain "By Your Side" is almost like a sexy lullaby.) And is there any denying that …

Putting the dirty in Dirty South and the hot in Hotlanta, Ludacris stormed onto the rap scene in 2000 with the sexpot single "What's Your Fantasy." He hasn't relinquished the title Loud Mouf of the Sou …

John Prine is an almost mythical figure in folk culture: he's right up there with Bob Dylan (only with more laughs) as a deceptively simple songsmith who can take the ordinary and make it seem incredib …

Prine returned from a five-year studio hiatus with The Missing Years in 1991. Co-produced by the Heartbreakers' Howie Epstein and featuring back-up from Tom Petty, the record won a folk GRAMMYr: …

John Birks Gillespie took jazz's swing-era template and twisted it into strange and beautiful new shapes. Alongside the likes of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, he boldly broke the old-school rules …

Dizzy was a true American original, but they didn't call him the Ambassador of Jazz for nothing. He had an all-consuming passion for pushing the sound's boundaries beyond even bebop, mixing it with the …

Harry Nilsson was one complex cat. He seemed to have it all - an otherworldly vocal range, superheroic songwriting skills, blockbuster pop hits, even the admiration and friendship of the Beatles. Not o …