This week our playlist includes music by Charles Mingus, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Artur Schnabel, Bessie Smith and more.

Lionel, how did you assemble your roster of country artists for your new album Tuskegee?

Valentine's Day is much more than a celebration of love, it's a recognition of how music provides the soundtrack for life's most intimate moments. How many relationships begin and end with a song?

As my gift to you for the holidays, I've compiled a list of my all-time 10 favorite Christmas songs in hopes that they bring you as much joy as they bring me during this time of year.

I first found Teena in 1981, when I was a year out of high school. She was a little white girl from Venice Beach making all kinds of R&B, the first little red headed white girl to be signed by Motown Records in 1976 -- the woman that would become the Ivory Queen of Soul.

Four talented dads in my neighborhood, men with distinguished credits in music, as well as film and television, have formed an acapella group that's fittingly called Who's Your Daddy!