In a Blue Mood

I remember discovering Bryan Lee in the late 1980s at the Old Absinthe Bar during my first visit to New Orleans. With the sideshow that m...

While thought of a ragtime and traditional new Orleans jazz pianist, Tom McDermott is a pianist who resists such easily categorization. Ce...

  Led by Willie Lockett, the All Purpose Blues Band asserts to be Bourbon Street's top Blues Soul Band. This Crescent City aggregatio...

I was not familiar with Dayna Kurtz prior to receiving her new album, Secret Canon Vol. 2  (M.C. Records), but when she starts singing t...

JazzFest 07 Last Day-1350 , a photo by NoVARon on Flickr. Word just came that Bob French passed away. This New Orleans legend was part o...

A icon of the New Orleans music scene, Little Freddie King has a new CD on the MadeWright Records label, Chasing the Blues . There is noth...

Steady Love (Stony Plain) is the new release by Maria Muldaur and finds the soulful singer backed by a group of New Orleans musicians under...

Back three decades ago, Samuel Charters produced a series of blues lps for the Swedish Sonet label, The Legacy of the Blues , along with som...

Born in Tylertown, Mississippi in 1907, Jewell ‘Babe’ Stovall learned music from his brothers and other musicians near Tylertown and include...

Here is the latest installment in my series on small blues gems issued by the Music Maker Relief Foundation, Alabama Slim's "Blue ...

New Atlantis: Musicians Battle For The Survival of New Orleans John Swenson Oxford University Press Music journalist and scholar John S...

Mem Shannon is the former New Orleans taxi driver who started a career as a blues artist two decades or so ago. He brought a very recogniza...

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, now resident in Charleston, South Carolina with time spent in among various places New York City and Conn...

Mystery Street Records is an affiliate of the fan-funded Threadhead Records, that was established after Hurricane Katrina, as a way for love...

Bob Seeley at 2011 WWOZ Piano Night Attending the annual WWOZ Piano Night, Monday May 2, after the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz ...

Another in Smithsonian-Folkways “Classic” series, the anthology Classic Sounds of New Orleans from Smithsonian Folkways compiles a variety ...

The following review appeared in the December 2006 Jazz & Blues Report (issue 289) and oddly my comment opening this review still holds...

Here is a review of David Fulmer’s novel “ Rampart Street ” from the the November-December 2006 Jazz & Blues Report (issue 288). The boo...

Recorded right after his Forever and Ever album, and a little more than half a year before his death in January 1992, One Last Time (Bulls...