Great Christmas songs, and great versions of great Christmas songs, are as plentiful as letters to Santa Claus. It’s the holiday for which various-artists compilations were seemingly created (and why ...

The estate of Luther Vandross and Primary Wave Music are gifting his fans an early holiday treat. Luther Vandross Classic Christmas, a previously-unreleased EP, will hit streaming on Nov. 3. The three ...

Early records reveal that his sumptuous voice and longing lyrics were there from the start. Out of print since 1977, “This Close to You” will be available Friday. By Ross Scarano Nile Rodgers’s very ...

For most of his career, Luther Vandross cut a puzzling figure. A charming romantic whose songs were so celebrated for bringing men and women to the bedroom that he was considered as much aphrodisiac ...