Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe. But there’s another Neapolitan ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...

Memphis and Shelby County formally affirmed their “sister city” relationship with a longtime cultural ally, Porretta Terme, a ...

The Blues Trail was created nearly two decades ago with markers located at significant places that helped shape the genre.

If Friday or Saturday night finds you near a radio, do yourself a favor and turn the dial to 90.1. There you’ll hear the ...

On this episode of "Florida Matters," you’ll learn about The Chitlin Circuit, how it shaped the sound of jazz, blues, and ...

The musician talks about incorporating a sampled beat into "The Star-Spangled Banner" and discusses his future with the ...

From nightlife to record stores, we've teamed up with KOOL to guide you through your Memphis music culture immersion.

People don't think about the blues scale in the right way, and it's ruining their jazz solos. Improvisation can't simply be thought of in terms of "a scale" and have imagination, soul and meaning.

Imani Perry traces the history and symbolism of the color blue, from the indigo of the slave trade, to Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, to present day cobalt mining. Her new book is Black in Blues.

Instead, she glides into it with a confidence that suggests she doesn’t need typical pop music crutches. The percussion takes ... While many might focus on the track’s confident exterior, the meaning ...