WHAT'S ALL this jazz. about soul? Well, Lady Soul has the nitty-gritty answer. For, there is no denying that gospel gut-singing moved uptown with Aretha Franklin and her penetrating wail of truth.

ATLANTA -- The Queen is gone. Aretha Franklin, the groundbreaking soul singer whose majestic wallop of a voice is firmly rooted in music history, died Thursday in her longtime home of Detroit. She was ...