In a Blue Mood

This is a review that I wrote in Fall 2006 and published in the November-December 2006 Jazz & Blues Report (Issue 288). I will be posti...

Various Artists Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 Third Man Records To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festiva...

Otis Rush Double Trouble Live Cambridge 1973 Rock Beat Joe’s Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the seventies must have been quite a...

This is my blues column from the March 1977 Buffalo Jazz Report which had Benny Goodman on the cover. My column was relatively lengthy, ...

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...

The Jazz & Blues Report is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with the March-April 2014 issue. I started writing for i...

A new reissue of Otis Rush s classic Cobra recordings has been released by Fuel 2000 who  licensed the material fromJewel/Paula. The Esse...

Eddy ‘The Chief’ Clearwater is a favorite among blues fans. The following review appeared in the DC Blues Calendar in 2001 at the time Ro...

Otis Rush has long been one of this writer’s favorite artists. Few artists could be as compelling as Rush when he was on his game. Unfortuna...

Yesterday I posted an older Byther Smith review. The following review is of what I believe was his last release, a live performance issued o...

One of the frustrations of blues is discovering a terrific talent, yet being frustrated by the artist’s failure to be able to take a step to...

Otis Rush is one of the legends of modern Chicago blues. The following review of a then previously unissued live performance by Rush from 19...

Bobby Parker has been tearing up Washington D.C. area clubs for the past three decades. This Louisiana native was raised in Los Angeles, b...

There was Ann Arbor Blues Festival. Musically, it was an event the likes of which we will never see again. Here is a story from an Ann Arbo...

Albert King was one of the most important and influential blues artists from the sixties until his death, and had a number of great recordin...

Tim Niland, who has a fascinating blog of jazz and blues reviews just has put forth a new podcast of jazz and blues with a diverse playlis...