In the center of the Blues Triangle, at the top of the hill, entwined by the luxurious scent of fire, meat and garlic bread, ...

Enslaved people would sing work songs while working the plantations and religious spirituals in church. Combined with the African rhythms, these musical styles were the foundation of blues.

Here’s how it works. Jazz and blues musicians often personify the very art of being cool, but we have to ponder whether they would be half as cool (musically speaking) if they didn’t constantly use ...

The blues is ... in popular music, but in queer history as well. Avoiding the trap of a simplistic, reductive narrative, Bullock instead acknowledges the deep and convoluted roots of the blues—roots ...

According to American Songwriter magazine, “If the blues torch ... p.m. with her jazz quintet featuring Huntsville jazz trumpeter Ken Watters. Brooklyn-born, Clare’s early music career ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing ...

After a change in leadership and a one-year hiatus, the Erie Jazz and Blues Festival is making a ... he has been a great force for the art and music world in Erie. John is still very much a ...

People still create and perform jazz and blues music today. They are both very popular styles of music. Blues music can be played on instruments like the guitar, piano and harmonica. Singing is ...

Baraka likewise addressed arguments over labels, noting in a discussion of the avant-garde movement in jazz in “Blues People,” “The controversy over whether this music is jazz or not seems ...