The timeless, seriously legit brilliance of Little Richard’s debut album.

Thelonious Monk was a bebop pioneer who swiftly left that medium behind for a style of music entirely his own making.

The King’s contribution to the film canon.

A look at Robert Mitchum’s greatest picture on his centennial.

A consideration of Ella Fitzgerald’s best performance in her centennial year.

Berry was great not because of what he led to but because of what he was.

Yes, Citizen Kane is great, but that’s not the half of it. The more Orson Welles was forced to improvise and budget down, the better he got.

We ought to be borne back ceaselessly into Fitzgerald’s genius—and not just to his reputed masterwork.

New collections of classic works by Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters enable a better appreciation of a beloved but understudied genre of American music.

Two recent archival releases strengthen the case that Jimi Hendrix was more like Bach than he was like The Beatles.