And right in the middle of it all, Harlem Renaissance music was changing the way the world listened. But most people only ...

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 ...

In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

The Creekside Blues & Jazz Festival was canceled in 2020, and delayed until September last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but now it's back in full force for this weekend. Early tickets sales are ...

As a jazz subgenre, soul-jazz began to flourish in the early 1960s. A groove-oriented style built from the bottom up, soul-jazz usually begins with the bass player: You take a strong bass line, ...

“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.

If you’ve been wondering when Glendale’s Westside Blues, Jazz and More will make its long-awaited return, there’s finally an answer. The speakeasy-style nightclub and music venue, located at 17045 N.

Chris Barber is celebrating 65 years as bandleader in 2014 and one of the most touching things about his autobiography, skilfully put together by jazz broadcaster and writer Alyn Shipton, is the ...

The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk continues with the 54th of its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. ROBERT Russell, former ...