Don Was

NEW YORK , May 30, 2012  /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Records is pleased to announce that Born and Raised , the new album from Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and musician John Mayer , enters the Billboard 200 at #1 with 219,478 sold.  The album also debuted at #1 in Canada on the Nielsen SoundScan Top 200 Sales Chart. Read More

U.S. Postal Service and France's La Poste to Honor Renowned Music Icons on Forever Stamps June 12 With First-Day-of-Issue Ceremony at Rubin Museum of Art - The Theater in New York NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 05/29/12 -- The United States Postal Service and France's La Poste will honor renowned music icons Miles Davis and Edith Piaf on Forever Stamps on June 12 with First-Day-Of-Issue Ceremony taking place at the Rubin Museum of Art - The Theater from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stroman will be the dedicating official. Read More

There's John the Musician, the neo- James Taylor of "Daughters" and "No Such Thing," and the blues-guitar omnivore who can back Jay-Z and cover "Sweet Child o' Mine." Then there's John the Dude, sloshing his TMI all over TMZ, blazing a trail of famous ex-girlfriends, big-upping his supposedly racist johnson in a disastrous 2010 Playboy interview. Read More

Isobel Campbell is our first non-American to enter the list. Read More

Connecticut-born singer-songwriter John Mayer took a much needed two-year hiatus from the bright lights of stardom in 2010, leaving behind a path of destruction that included a dicey Playboy interview and landed him in some hot water with a slew of A-list ladies. Read More

Infamy has its uses, and atonement has its limits. Read More

Performing at the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan, The Gil Evans Orchestra--led by Gil's son Miles Evans--will conclude a week of Gil Evans Centennial Celebrations on May 21st with a performance that pays tribute to the jazz arranger/composer icon. Read More

"Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream. It is not dying, it is not dying. Read More

Welcome to a new, occasional series in which I'll be shining a spotlight on club classics that were released 20 years ago. Read More

Don Was, the Grammy Award-winning producer, has a clear recollection of his first encounter with Blue Note Records. Read More