In a Blue Mood

The youngest daughter of the legendary Rufus Thomas, Vaneese Thomas, like her sister Carla and brother Marvel, been involved in the music ...

Shemekia Copeland The Pennsylvania Blues Festival approaches quickly. The following has appeared in the May-June Jazz & Blues Re...

“ In the Mix ” (Jazzhaus Records) is Bernard Allison’s first studio in six years and certainly is a good one. Bernard produced this and is...

Benny Turner has has a distinguished career playing bass and anchoring the bands of his brother, the legendary Freddie King; another Chica...

Delmark’s acquisition of the Canadian Sackville label continues to make available some wonderful recordings covering the whole spectrum of...

Brandon Santini has been establishing himself as one of the new blues harmonica hotshots. With his band of Timo Arthur guitar, Nick Hearn ...

Gulf Coast chanteuse Lisa Mills refers to herself as "a blue-eyed-soul singer armed with a guitar" who speaking about her music ...

Paul Carr The Sixth Annual Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival returns Presidents’ Day Weekend to the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville Hotel &...

Buddy Tate was both a band mate of, and successor to, fellow Texas tenor saxophonist Herschel Evans. Both had played together in Troy Floy...

There is an appealing weariness in Freddy Cole’s treatment of a Bobby Bland recording “This Time I’m Gone For Good,” that is on  his new H...

With a six decade career that includes associations with such iconic artists as Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Sun Ra, Ben Webster, Ken...

Produced by Duke Robillard, Billy Boy Arnold’s new Stony Plain recording “ The Blues Soul of Billy Boy Arnold ” has him performing songs h...

“ Still on the Levee ” (Homunculus Music/Mighty Albert) is a double disc retrospective of Chris Smither’s 50 odd year career in new June 2...

It has been years since Billy Branch’s last recording, a Japanese CD shared with guitarist Carlos Johnson, a decade ago. Thankfully Blind ...

I found Linsey Alexander’s first Delmark album, “ Been There Done That ” to be “the most impressive blues recording which is one of the fi...

A welcome re-release by Delmark from the Sackville label is Don Pullen’s Richard’s Tune . Originally released in 1975 as “Solo Piano Album...

The Delta Swing is a fine original as Harpe calls listeners out to go swinging from Cambridge to Memphis. It is played with a relaxed gro...

Pierre Lacocque's Mississippi Heat have a new release on Delmark, Warning Shot , that will be welcomed by the band's fans and like...

Delmark's latest releases include a re-release of Jump Records Early Tunes 1915-1932 by The Evergreen Classic Jazz Band. Originally i...

  Blues Boulevard’s new Lucky Peterson album I’m Back Again is a release of music from the excellent DVD/CD set on BlackbirdMusic/ So...