In a Blue Mood

1997_Salute_to_Uncle_Lionel-115 , a photo by NoVARon on Flickr. I first met Lionel Batiste when the Tréme Brass Band played the Smithson...

TCOB Music calls itself The Montreux Jazz Label ™ and has several different series which can be distinguished by the color of the CD spine...

Alligator Records has just released the labels eighth album by Lil ‘Ed & The Blues Imperials, “ Jump Start . Only Magic Slim and the T...

Don Sebesky’s Giant Box is part of the CTI Masterworks reissues of classic CTI albums marking the label’s 40th Anniversary. Originally is...

The latest recording by Zac Harman, Music Is Medicine (Urban Eagle), brings a southern soul-blues sensitivity to a bit of prominence in i...

Here is another vintage Magic Slim review. It appeared in the November 1996 Jazz & Blues Report (Issue 216). I have made a few mino...

Touted by some as the latest emerging New Orleans keyboard master, Davell Crawford’s second album for Rounder’s Bullseye Blues & Jaz...

A couple years after his acclaimed The Gentleman Is Back , recording, that gentleman of the Detroit Blues, Johnnie Bassett, is back with a...

Big Time Sarah (Streeter) with her band, the BTS Express, has a new album, Blues In The Year One-D-One (Delmark), which should appeal ...

Rhino has issued Zydeco Dynamite, The Clifton Chenier Anthology , which is a two compact disc, 40 track retrospective of Clifton Chenie...

As stated on its website, www.blues.org , The Blues Foundation is currently engaged in a capital campaign to build a physical Blues Hall o...

Morris Holt, best known as Magic Slim, has had a celebrated recording career over 40 years, and rarely produced a blues record that was me...

James Cotton’s new Verve release, Deep in the Blues , has the legendary harmonica player and blues singer accompanied by Joe Louis Walke...

Avid Jazz is one of several European Public Domain reissue labels that have compiled reissues of vintage jazz albums primarily from the 19...

Debbie Davies has a new release on M.C. Records I will be reviewing soon. It has been nearly 20 years since she had her first album, Pi...

Big Time Sarah is another blues woman from Chicago who has never received the acclaim her talents merit. The following review appeared ...

Amongst recent reissues in Concord’s Stax Remasters reissues is the classic album Woman To Woman by Shirley Brown. Brown had one of the l...

The Canadian Just a Memory label continues its documentation of live blues performances in Montreal in the late 1960s. The latest relea...

One of the blues artists I discovered when I first started listening to blues was Samuel Maghett, better known as Magic Sam. The releas...

These Mean Old Blues by George ‘Wild Child’ Butler appeared on Bullseye Blues in the early 1990s. The following review appeared in the...