Fergie L. Philippe first saw the stage musical ''Beauty and the Beast'' pretty late, as a freshman in college. Kyra Belle Johnson got to know it much earlier — in sixth grade she played a sugar cube ...

This week in Philly music features a 100-year-old saxophonist releasing his first solo album, a reborn 1970s British funk group, a virtuoso guitarist, and a Scottish rock band — all playing in ...