The Stax Music Academy in Memphis is marking its 25th anniversary with Black History Month-themed concerts on March 28.

Hitmaking record producer Richard Perry has died at 82.

Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful “Memphis sound,” has died at age 92.

A performance by master keyboardist Booker T.