In a Blue Mood

Here are some miscellaneous reviews from the June 1978 Buffalo Jazz Report (Issue 52). Music is My Business is the latest set by Roosevelt...

Leroy Carr's legacy is perhaps not as appreciated today as it once was. A major recording star, his duets with guitarist Scrapper Blackw...

With respect to my recent post on St. James Infirmary which I linked on Facebook, one gentleman posted several additional versions of this ...

A couple decades ago I wrote a review of Johnny Adams album, "Walking On a Tightrope" for Living Blues and out of the blue I r...

Today's blog is devoted to simply presenting a number of renditions of a song most associated with Leroy Carr, How Long, How Long Blues ...

This is from the May 1977 Buffalo Jazz Report which had the great Big Joe Turner on the cover to help promote the show he did at the Tr...

This is my blues column from the January 1977 Buffalo Jazz Report which had Lee Konitz on the cover. The column had my review of the best...

Going back through the old issues of the Buffalo Jazz Report , I have discovered not only my old columns but also regular album revie...

While it is not clear where the style of piano called Boogie Woogie originated, by 1928 it had clearly surfaced in Chicago where it was n...

I have many fond memories of the late Big Joe Turner, one of the greatest blues shouters of all time. I had the honor to emcee Big Joe and L...

As the review in Blues Unlimited noted about the original vinyl release of SuperBlack Blues , the recording of Otis Spann, Big Joe Turner a...

The following brief review of a compilation of blues recordings, mostly classic tracks from the forties and fifties from the Savoy label, ap...

Back in the early 1990s, EMI issued a series of blues reissues that made some important and vintage blues available for blues listeners. I...

Johnny Otis The Johnny Otis Show Live At Monterey (Epic / Legacy) This compact disc reissue of Johnny Otis rhythm and blues spectacul...

The following review appeared in the January 16-March 1, 2010 issue (issue 323) of Jazz & Blues Report which is downloadable as a pdf f...

2009-0725_Pocono_Blues_Saturday-1527 Originally uploaded by NoVARon One of the performers at this year's Pocono Blues Festival I was loo...