Featuring Phil Spector, Motown, Charlie Brown and Luther Vandross, Variety selects 10 Christmas albums essential to celebrate the season.

The estate of Luther Vandross and Primary Wave Music are gifting his fans an early holiday treat. Luther Vandross Classic Christmas, a previously-unreleased EP, will hit streaming on Nov. 3.

Released nearly two decades after the R&B and soul giant's death, "Luther Vandross Classic Christmas," is a short but memorable modern day Christmas classic: a three-track EP built off the never ...

Luther Vandross, Pop Perfectionist, Didn’t Want You to Hear These Albums Early records reveal that his sumptuous voice and longing lyrics were there from the start.