Leon Redbone, the perpetually anachronistic, famously mysterious artist who rose to prominence as a performer on Toronto's folk circuit in the early '70s, died Thursday while in hospice care in Bucks ...

NEW YORK — Leon Redbone, the acclaimed singer and guitarist who performed jazz, ragtime and Tin Pan Alley-style songs, died Thursday, according to a statement released by his family. No details about ...

I (and hundreds of others, I expect) received an e-mail Tuesday morning announcing the retirement from recording and live performing by Leon Redbone. People of a certain age may have fond and ...

"My interest in music is that moment, even one bar (one measure), and expression … that turns that switch on for a moment," said Redbone, a favorite guest of talk show host Johnny Carson, and more ...

Leon Redbone, the pop crooner time forgot, occasionally forgot some vintage lyrics Friday night at the Barns of Wolf Trap. His baritone would suddenly dip into a sustained croaky hum or a mumbled fade ...

Leon Redbone is not a jazz musician, but the brand of pop music he favors -- Tin Pan Alley tunes of the '20s and '30s -- would have sounded much different if the genre known as jazz hadn't emerged at ...