In a Blue Mood

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...

My 3rd installment of my blues column from the Buffalo Jazz Report , October, 1976. I mentioned the B.B. King and Muddy waters gigs the...

In the 1970s when Kent Cooper first met the late Louisiana Red, Red was working at the Bayonne (New Jersey) Barrel Company and had given...

Word of the death of Louisiana Red certainly has affected the blues world. Born Iverson Minter, he led a lengthy and distinguished career ...

2008-0429_Ponderosa_Stomp-610 , a photo by NoVARon on Flickr. We mourn the passing of Iverson Minter, better known as Louisiana Red on Feb...

Iverson Minter, better known as Louisiana Red, has had a distinguished recording career that dates back six decades. Red has recorded many ...

I have long owned the LP, “ Louisiana Red Sings The Blues ,” in its original Atco release. Recently the 2007 Wounded Bird reissue of it  was...

I became first aware of Bob Corritore in the '70s when he issued some blues albums by lesser known, but hardly lesser, Chicago artists L...

Phoenix’s The Rhythm Room as developed a reputation as a blues room in part due to the efforts of Bob Corritore. Blue Witch Records has issu...