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The teenage prodigy who helped define the sound of Stax, BOOKER T JONES continues to bring wisdom and peerless Hammond grooves to a new generation of musicians. Yet his path from “Green Onions” and Otis Redding to Willie Nelson and the Drive-By Truckers has not always been clear. “The events in Memphis in 1968 were too much for me,” he tells Stephen Deusner

‘If you want tough, I’ll give you tough…” Following a hiatus from Bloc Party, the platinum-selling group that made Kele Okereke an icon of British 2000s rock, the frontman began work on his first solo

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

SLY STONE 1943-2025

SLY STONE, WHO DIED ON June 9 at 82, wrung greatness out of the American abyss. Early in his career, Stone was an avatar of a more peaceful future, forming Sly and the Family Stone as one of the count

Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites