Dynasty star was the first black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series

Derek O’Connor remembers the actor, who was a giant of Irish theatre

One of the most exhilarating live acts on the Irish scene will also take to the stage

The older we get, the more locked inside ourselves we become

Dirty Jazz Club returns to Dublin while the Guilfoyle/Nielsen Trio plays in Derry bar

The return of Rodrigo Almonte to his sometime home is also among the highlights

Author and journalist has been honing his sportswriting craft for 35 years

Miles Davis gets new arrangements from Guy Barker and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Van the very prolific man releases his 40th album, and his fourth in two years

40,000 jazz fans to attend as New Orleans-style funeral procession hits town

How to do a sleepover in style and who will fix up your furniture

Musician and composer Seán Mac Erlaine on his jazz awakening

Maureen Dowd: William Friedkin revisits old haunts for his new film about exorcism

For the acclaimed jazz innovator Pat Metheny, guitars were tools for creating music. Then one he first saw as a child came up for sale, and he had to have it

In 1987 he was hailed as a rival to Michael Jackson, then his star crashed and burned

The great saxophonist died 50 years ago this week. Here are 10 of his finest moments

Archive: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall

Laura Jurd is one of jazz's fastest rising stars but her band Dinosaur has a sound that's pure early 1970s electric funk

From the apocalyptic vision of A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall to the complex meditations of Ain’t Talkin’, Dylan delivers poetry in emotion