The 2025 edition of the Chicago Blues Festival has one of the stronger lineups in recent memory—its mix of hallowed veterans ...

I'm Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Helen Humes was a remarkable blues and popular singer for the Basie Band following ...

Lillian Boutté-l’Etienne, the jazz and gospel singer who spent decades in Europe advocating for the music of her native New ...

On Saturday, the inaugural Capital City Jazz Festival marked a soulful return of live jazz to the historic riverfront district. The free event had drawn a crowd of about 200 music ...

The Capital City Jazz Festival marks a new chapter in the city’s music legacy, following the demise of the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee — later rebranded as the Sacramento Music Festival.

Dig deeper into the Delta blues with these documentaries about legendary musicians Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Howlin' ...

(New Orleans Jazz Museum) Also on display are blues singer Buddy Guy’s vibrant jumpsuit and polka-dotted guitar. The polka dot, which pays tribute to the 88-year-old legend’s mother ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — He’s 15 years old. He has 14 pianos ... He’s on stage at Jazz Fest. “I want to keep performing as much as I can for the rest of my life and keep composing and writing ...

Jazz was the new music of his youth, and it will remain so forever. Brown is 102 years old. Brown ... Mike said he liked the blues too, but you know Dad. Here’s a great thing about New ...

we’ll call it Blues Old Stand.” Many of the clubs the band rocked in their youth are gone, including their home turf, classic Montgomery nightspot 1048 Jazz & Blues. After the band’s prime ...

(In case that old jazz term is unfamiliar to modern listeners ... says that a jug band is simply “early traditional blues and jazz played on folk music instruments.”) Traditional jazz is ...

Froman is president of 30-year-old nonprofit Gift of Jazz ... the West outlines four key evolutions in the Mile High City’s celebration of bebop and blues. Jazz great Duke Ellington. Photo courtesy of ...