Bob Gendron

Maybe Mary J. Blige had a limousine parked outside waiting for her and running up a tab during her show Friday at a packed United Center. That might account for...

Could the concert have benefited from better preparation? Probably, but her genuine spontaneity in playing the decades-old album was worth every rough moment.

Over the course of 85 remarkable minutes, he furthered the case for himself as the finest singer-songwriter of his generation.

Joy Oladokun logged a double-duty shift Friday at a sold-out Thalia Hall. Recalling a bygone era when the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and the Grateful Dead opened their...

Swapping between originals and covers of Vince Guaraldi and The Handsome Family, his performances at Fourth Presbyterian Church cast a holiday spell.

At age 85, the hometown singer shows no signs of slowing a musical career that dates back to civil rights-era performances with her family. The condition of her voice on...

On the first of a two-night stand at the United Center, she projected new purpose and energy along with her trademark vulnerability and emotion.