Born and bred in San Francisco, where his father was a silent-movie organist and a noted arranger of vaudeville and theater music, Desmond famously remarked that he wanted to sound like a dry martini.

Paul Desmond: Samba with Some Barbecue Originally titled “Struttin' with Some Barbecue" in 1941, this Satchmo tune lost its Dixie beat and got a bossa groove in the hands of the infallible Don Sebesky ...

Paul Mescal came to seduce Cannes, and it appears to be working. The red-hot young star of The History of Sound received a warm welcome from the festival audience for the world premiere of Oliver ...

For Paul Simon, sitting in the john at his parent’s home in Flushing, Queens made him flush with creativity to write Simon & Garfunkel’s breakout hit “The Sound of Silence.” ...

At the end of 1967 one of the most popular groups in jazz, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, disbanded. What did its star alto saxophonist Paul Desmond do next? Desmond biographer Doug Ramsey joins us to ...

Paul Mescal might be onto his second Oscar nomination following the success of his new movie The History of Sound. The Gladiator II star's new film received a 7.5 minute standing ovation at the ...

Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor brought the heat to Cannes Film Festival with Oliver Hermanus' "The History of Sound," which earned a standing ovation.

St. Paul: Music festival gets higher sound level limit for Allianz Field To mitigate the noise, the Breakaway Music Festival plans to reorient its speakers away from Cub Foods, toward Allianz Field, ...

At the end of 1967 one of the most popular groups in jazz, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, disbanded. What did its star alto saxophonist Paul Desmond do next? Desmond biographer Doug Ramsey joins us to ...

Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor's new gay romance The History Of Sound premiered at Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. The film was very well received at Cannes, receiving an impressive nine-minute ...

It was a very Gen X love story for Niffer Desmond and Paul Petroskey. She admired his music from afar for years, but had no way of finding him. Then social media was invented.