There’s a great line in John Hiatt’s 1988 song “Slow Turning,” where the protagonist is in his car trying to listen to the radio but suddenly wheels around: “I’m yelling at the kids in the back ...

An extensive jazz catalog from late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts titled Anthology has just been released on June 30. Watts is known for his iconic work with The Rolling Stones, but not many ...

Charlie Watts left this world in 2021, at age 80, and many only know him as the legendary The Rolling Stones drummer of six decades. Lesser known was his passion for jazz—that he expressed every ...

Without stretching the comparison too far, Charlie Watts was the Elvis Presley of rock and roll drumming: There was BC (Before Charlie) and after, and he can’t be compared realistically with anyone ...

A massive collection of first-edition books, jazz memorabilia, and other items owned by the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will soon hit the block at Christie’s. More than 500 lots ...

It’s hard to overstate how difficult it was for young British people to obtain records from American jazz- and bluesmen in the 1950s and ’60s. Figures like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bukka White, and even ...

First printing of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, part of the Charlie Watts collection on display at Christie's. (Edvard Pettersson/Courthouse News Service). BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (CN) — ...