In a Blue Mood

Mosaic Records has a well deserved reputation for superb boxed sets of many different giants of jazz. In recent years they have started new...

Robert Lighthouse is a Swedish native (real name Palinic) who settled in the Washington DC area about two decades ago and has established hi...

Al King has been gone for several years but he produced a small body of blues recordings that endure because of his wonderful sober singing...

Writing about Nick Moss & the Flip Tops, Bill Dahl notes that they simultaneously preserve and advance the Chicago blues tradition. “Yet...

Fred James has been putting out a number of collections of classic rhythm and blues recordings from Nashville on the German SRV Blue label. ...

The collaborations between the late vocalist Etta Jones and saxophonist Houston Person produced so much musical magic that ended with she pa...

The High Note Recordings by David ‘Fathead’ Newman certainly add to his considerable body of work that has been recorded over six decades. ...

Its been several weeks since a giant in the world of photography passed. Memphis photographer Ernest Withers was best known for his document...

Sleepy John Estes was one of the great blues poets and vocalists whose prewar recordings were highly influential on the likes of John Lee ‘S...

Frank ‘Son’ Seals was arguably the most important discovery of Alligator Records and its chief honcho, Bruce Iglauer. Such albums as The Son...

Satan and Adam were a fascinating duo, bringing together veteran guitarist Sterling Magee and young harmonica player Adam Gussow. From worki...

Post: Updated November 7. Ruf has updated its website discussing Underground , supplementing its original release notes and suggesting a re...

Son of the legendary Carey Bell, its somewhat astonishing to realize that Lurrie Bell has been playing the blues for thirty odd years since ...

I've know Gaye Adegbalola for about two decades now, when I saw Saffire - the Uppity Blues Women performing at venues in the Washington ...

There have been so many examples of blues artists who produced a small number of recordings whose recordings were highly prized by those who...

Fred James has played a substantial role in documenting and getting recognition for Nashville's R&B scene. One of the artists whose...

One of several saxophonists that was labeled the next Bird, Frank Morgan notes that was the worst thing to happen to him as it was something...

Its been a decade since Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp, better known as Nappy Brown, last had a new recording out. Thanks to producer Scott Cab...

Born near New Orleans, Eleanor Ellis heard the blues blasting out of the radio, but it was when working at the Tulane University Jazz Archiv...

Arthur Alexander was a sixties soul singer whose recordings of Anna and You Better Move On were covered by the Rolling Stones and the Beat...