One day after Adam Lanza opened fire on students and administrators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., The New York Times and other sources are reporting that the 6 year old daughter of renowned Jazz Saxophone player Jimmy Greene has been listed as one of the deceased.
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In the town of Niafunke, blues great Ali Farka Toure is a legend, but his music is now banned in his home town, after a brutal militarist takeover.
The 34th Blues Music Award nominees have been ANNOUNCED!! Come see the complete list!
The country’s only national museum devoted to Blues music to open in St. Louis makes major announcement!
Ravi Shankar, the sitar playing virtuoso who became a musical icon of the 1960s after hanging out with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences while playing for eight decades has died. He was 92.
The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced the six 2013 inductees, and among them is the legendary Albert King.
Editor’s Note: This is an incredibly special part of “dual articles” about the dynamic Shemekia Copeland and her long time manager and songwriter, John Hahn!
In 2009, JP Soars and his band, The Red Hots, won 1st place in the Blues…
The blues superstar talks her huge new album, covering Dylan, Sam Cooke, and her father, as well as playing at the White House, paving her own way, and being presented the mantle as the new “Queen of the Blues”!
As a humanist, he was at the forefront of integration, playing black jazz clubs throughout the deep South in the ’50s, a point of pride for him. Dave Brubeck was one of the first bandleaders in America to integrate his group.