The latest installment of this summer's deluxe remastered Beastie Boys series has been confirmed: Ill Communication will get the multi-format reissue treatment on July 14 on Capitol Records. Beasti...

Bluesman Jimmy McGriff has died at a nursing home in New Jersey. He was 72. The organist, a former Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police officer, was a student of blues greats Jimmy Smith and Richard...

Jazz musician Herman Riley has died of heart failure. He was 73. The saxophonist passed away at Brotman Medical Center in Los Angeles on April 14. Born on August 31, 1933, Riley played with st...