Nancy Wilson blurs the line between jazz singer and pop singer, preferring to be called a “song stylist.” Born in Chillicothe, Ohio, on February 20, 1937, she is younger than Elvis, Little Richard and ...

Paul Natkin/Getty Les McCann, a singer and pianist who helped to pioneer the soul jazz genre, has died at age 88. On Monday, The New York Times reported that the musician died on Friday in a Los ...

The jazz singer “went very peacefully,” her daughter said, and the family was also “at peace” as she died. “She went listening to some of her favorite songs,” her daughter shared.