Besides numerous album reviews, OffBeat also published two feature interviews with Burke, both very entertaining. Scott Jordan talked to the King of Rock and Soul for the July 1997 Backtalk, and ...

Solomon Burke, the larger-than-life "King of Rock and Soul" who was revered as one of music's greatest vocalists died early Sunday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. He was 70. Solomon Burke, the larger ...

Yet his popularity never matched that of those he influenced, contemporaries including James Brown and Marvin Gaye, a reality he accepted with grace and some frustration, colleagues said. Burke, 70, ...

R+B singer Solomon Burke. has released a new record called Like a Fire. Kurt Andersen talked to Burke back in 2006, when he released Nashville, a collection of tunes he recorded in the country-music ...

Solomon Burke was born to the sound of music in an upstairs room of a Philadelphia church and went on to become one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s, renowned as among music's premier ...

Solomon Burke, 70, the Grammy-winning rhythm and blues singer whose early recordings defined the soul music genre, died Oct. 10 on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, apparently during or shortly ...

The Dominican pianist Michel Camilo has been a jazz star of sorts since at least 1988 when he debuted impressively on Columbia. His performances with his Latin-jazz-on-steroids trio, quartet or big ...

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