The All Music Guide to Jazz does not have many straight blues entries, being content to concentrate on jazz exclusively. But that is beside the point. Both publications are dated the day they are in ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - The Highland Jazz & Blues Festival celebrates its 20th year with an incredible blues musician headline. On Sept. 14, from 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., the 20th Annual Highland Jazz & ...

Kevin Burt, a member of the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame and International Blues Challenge overall winner, entertains the audience ...

On a Friday night in late September, Judith Owen revealed her new self at Preservation Hall. Following the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s regularly scheduled sets, the pianist and singer took over the ...

“An Evening of Blues and Jazz” will be held Saturday at 4th Corner Speakeasy, 431 Georgia St., Vallejo.

Two of my favorite musicians, Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt, are being feted in this twilight of their careers. Be it the Grammys or social media, I’m thrilled to see them get their due and for more ...

Viewed in this way, we can see the blues as a quest for existential answers to questions that have always been, and always will be—they have no beginning, and no end. In my article about Harmony and ...

You can take the boy out of Central New York, but you can’t take the Central New York out of the boy. Take Monk Rowe, for instance.

The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market is reopening Oct. 1 with a slate of performers and an interior overhaul aimed at making the venue one of the nation’s premier listening rooms. The nonprofit ...

Composer Randy Gibson walked the trails of Tacony Creek Park and recorded his responses as a suite of songs. (Emma Lee/WHYY) In the summer of 2019, composer Randy Gibson took a stroll through ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – For the past three years, St. Augustine has become the home of one of the most special Black History Month events in Northeast Florida. Now, in its 4th year, the Fort Mose Jazz ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Not long after Black Americans found themselves freed from the shackles of slavery in the late 19th century, the work songs that echoed among the fields worked by enslaved ...