Leon Redbone was an enigmatic performer who animated a past he was never witness to in his concerts and recordings, playing and singing early jazz and blues as if he had strolled straight out of ...

He didn’t like Mexican food, and would eat Szechuan at any time of day. While on tour with Mr. Redbone as a teenager in 1978, guitarist Colin Linden was sized up at a breakfast table in Boston.

He recorded 16 albums in all before retiring in 2015 because of ill health. Leon Redbone was 69. A documentary about him released last year was called, "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone." ...

Leon Redbone once woke me out of a sound sleep. Redbone had an engagement at the Woodfire Trattoria in Dowagiac in January 2007, and I was going to interview him for The Tribune’s preview ...

Redbone’s publicist confirmed he was born in Cyprus on Aug. 26, 1949, but the Thursday statement announcing his death explained that “Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at ...

Leon Redbone performs at the eighth annual Redwood Coast Dixieland Jazz Festival in Eureka, California, in 1998. Redbone, the acclaimed singer and guitarist who performed jazz, ragtime and Tin Pan ...

Leon Redbone, the blues and jazz artist whose growly voice, Panama hat and cultivated air of mystery made him seem like a character out of the ragtime era or the Depression-era Mississippi Delta ...

Leon Redbone, the famously mysterious musician whose strummy, Ragtime-style crooning seemed to emanate from a bygone era, died Thursday at age 69.

Leon Redbone, the famously mysterious musician whose strummy, Ragtime-style crooning seemed to emanate from a bygone era, died Thursday at age 69.

Musician Leon Redbone, 69, died on May 30. A documentary about his life, "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone", was released last year.

Cabaret singer Leon Redbone, who died Thursday at age 69 after a career that saw him become a contemporary favorite in the 1970s despite playing tunes from ragtime, vaudeville and American ...