In a Blue Mood

Among new Delmark releases is “ Boogie Woogie Kings ”, a compilation of piano blues and boogie woogie performances that is apparently the fi...

One of my favorite artists was the late Snooks Eaglin who passed away in February of this year. Hep Cat, a Collector’s Choice subsidiary obt...

One of my favorite blues discoveries of 2009 was the debut Delmark disc by Quintus McCormick. I wrote the following review which appeared i...

From the December 2009 Jazz & Blues Report (who provided me with the review copy) comes my review of a terrific recording by Israeli-bo...

Among the recordings I had the pleasure to review this year for Jazz & Blues Report was the following by bassist and vocalist Belinda U...

The following review of a strong recording by Tad Robinson originally appeared in Jazz & Blues Report in 2004. I received the review co...

The following was a review of the 3rd double CD in a series that an offshoot of the Swedish blues magazine, Jefferson, released in the earli...

I have had a fondness for Smokin' Joe Kubek and B'nois King since first becoming aware of them with their association with Rounder R...

The following review of a strong recording by Tad Robinson originally appeared in Jazz & Blues Report in 2004. I received the review cop...

I have become a huge fan of Houston Person over the past few years, and he certainly merits acclaim as one of the great tenor saxophonists. ...

A new Joe Louis Walker recording is always welcome and Stony Plane has just issued “Between A Rock And The Blues.” I believe this is his sec...

King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records Jon Hartley Fox University of Illinois Press (280 pages, 23 photographs) This writer have ...

The announcement that David ' Honeyboy ' Edwards is receiving a Grammy® Lifetime Achievement Award is startling. According to the N...

Here is a review that I wrote earlier this calendar year by a wonderful singer and guitarist, Mary Flower, one of the most accomplished fing...

The following review has been written for Jazz & Blues Report and hopefully will appear in the December issue. I certaainly think this b...

I was gonna write the underlying review in any event, but when I got home tonight I learned that Bryan Lee was hospitalized, apparently suff...

Nashville singer and guitarist Johnnie Jones' passed away recently and it unfortunately was unheralded somewhat. Those having The Beat!!...

“You Know I Can’t Reuse: The Bill Heid Sessions,” (Eastlawn) is one of those discs that straddle the blues and jazz categories, so unfortun...

Among the latest in the Jazz Icons® series of DVDs (Naxos/Reelin’ in the Years) is the great organist Jimmy Smith from a French television b...

A heads up for those in the Mid-Atlantic Region For years Jazz was prominent in the Washington DC area during the middle of February. The Ea...