In a Blue Mood

The Gators Featuring Willie Tee Wasted Funky Delicacies This is one of several reissues of classic New Orleans music put together...

The British Broadcasting Company in 1979 presented a fascinating look at the origins and history blues, The Devil's Music . With a narra...

The Original Roland Stone Remember Me Orleans Records When I was at the Louisiana Music Factory, I had selected a bunch of discs ...

With respect to my recent post on St. James Infirmary which I linked on Facebook, one gentleman posted several additional versions of this ...

Finis Tasby People Don’t Care Shanachie Shanachie, which also is the parent label for Yazoo, is best known for acoustic and world...

Willa Vincitore Better Days Building records Singer-songwriter Willa Vincitore certainly sounds poised to expand her fanbase beyond Ne...

Discussing Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man in his book, The Jazz Standards , Ted Gioia includes recordings by it by Buddy Guy and Al...

Eddie C. Campbell That’s When I Know Blind Pig This writer had the pleasure to see Eddie C. Campbell when he was part of Willie Dixon’s Ch...

Brad Stivers Took You Long Enough VizzTone In his mid-twenties, Austin-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Brad Stivers will make folks...

One of W.C. Handy's most celebrated compositions is "St. Blues Blues," which has been recorded countless times and become a bl...

Roy Roberts Introducing Roy Roberts New Moon New Moon Music continues to document the Virginia-Carolinas blues scene with this debut album...

John Pizzarelli Sinatra & Jobim at 50 Concord Jazz John Pizzarelli cites Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim as major influences on...

The legendary photographer, W Eugene Smith, in the fifties through the early 1970s when he was evicted after a dispute with his landlord, ...

George Gershwin's An American in Paris In his August 2017 article on George Gershwin that accompanies his selection b...

The Greg Hatza ORGANization Diggin' Up My Roots Flip Records Hammond B-3 master Greg Hatza was playing boogie woogie on the piano ...

Eubie Blake in Berlin in 1972 playing several of his most famous compositions,  Charleston Rag, I'm Just Wild About Harry and Me...

John Hammond Verve & Pointblank Releases Verve / Pointblank Jerry Wexler writes in the notes to John Hammond’s new Pointblank...

Charlie Owen Worth the Wait Like the prodigal son, DC native Chartlie Owen has returned to the DMV (Distict-Maryland-Virginia) after de...