Because of Roger Troutman’s influence in American music, Hamilton renamed his boyhood street in his honor. “In the book of history about Hamilton, Ohio, there’s a chapter obviously on music legends, ...

Local singer-saxophonist-percussionist Roger Bailey was the epitome of the kind of performer he embodied: a skilled, charismatic, multi-instrumentalist who never took performing or the audience for ...

The city of Hamilton hosted an honorary street naming Tuesday for a local music legend.Washington Street, at the corner of South Front Street in Hamilton, has been renamed after Roger Troutman, best ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If you grew up on funk or ever fell down a rabbit hole of West Coast hip hop, then you’ve definitely felt the presence of Roger Troutman—even if you didn’t know it at the time. The ...

No one knew it would be Roger Bailey’s last gig when he played his beloved saxophone at the Kern River Blues Society jam session last Saturday afternoon at Crusader Brewing in Bakersfield. Friends and ...

Dallas jazz-soul musician Roger Boykin found a new creative outlet while stuck at home during the pandemic: writing and arranging music for string quartets. He’ll conduct and perform some of the ...

Besides being the last studio album issued prior to drummer Keith Moon's passing in 1978, Who Are You holds the distinction of being the most enervating release in the British quartet's discography, ...