In a Blue Mood

Hudson Whittaker, known as Tampa Red, was one of the most popular and most recorded blues artists of the Twenties through the early 1950s. H...

Danny Barker New Orleans Jazz Man and Raconteur GHB Records As Trevor Richards observes in his opening comments to this two-disc retrospec...

Gravel & Grace Bringing the Blues Self-produced According to the publicity for singers Ava Grace Merchant and Earl Matthews, they ...

Omer Kringel Okan Project Israeli pianist-composer-bandleader Omer Kringel's latest album is a multi-cultural project entitled ...

The recent loss of the late Eddie Lusk hit the blues world hard. He earned the title of Professor because of his multiple keyboard prowess...

Blue Moon Marquee Bare Knuckles and Brawn Blue Moon Marquee Music This disc from the Vancouver, British Columbia duo fell through the crac...

Today's short playlist is devoted to several renditions of " Catfish Blues ," a song first recorded by Robert Petway in 1941 a...

Ton Van Bergeyk Black And Tan Fantasy, Fingerpicking Guitar Solos Guitar Artistry Stefan Grossman calls Ton Van Bergeyk the finest fin...

Kenny' Blues Boss' Wayne Go, Just Do It! Stony Plain Records " Go, Just Do It! " is the latest album by the veteran blue...

Best known as Muddy Waters' pianist after Otis Spann left, Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins also spent time with the King Biscuit ...

Lucky Peterson Tribute To Jimmy Smith Jazzbook Records Lucky Peterson's passing left a significant hole for music lovers. I first ...

Mayita Dinos The Garden Is My Stage Dash Hoffman Records A landscape designer and artist, as well as one who has performed in jazz ven...

Earl 'Fatha' Hines was one of the great jazz pianists. His trumpet style of playing was highly influential. Addirionally, he led one...

The New Orleans Catahoulas Homegrown Self-produced According to their website, "The New Orleans Catahoulas (cat-a-hoo-las) feature Al...

Fred Randolph Mood Walk Creative Spirit Records " Mood Walk " is the fourth album as a leader by bassist, composer, and lead...

Louisiana's LeRoux One of Those Days Self-produced Decades ago, the Louisiana band LeRoux were signed to a major label, played on albu...

Vanderlei Pereira and Blindfold Test Vision for Rhythm Jazzheads While he has been an in-demand Brazilian drummer who has been in the U.S....

Wolfgang Muthspiel Angular Blues ECM Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel leads an exceptional trio of Scott Colley on bass and ...

One of the pioneering blues guitarists to record, Blind Lemon Jefferson had an influence that went well beyond his years and relatively brie...

Samoa Wilson with the Jim Kweskin Band I Just Want to be Horizontal Kingswood Records, LLC Vocalist Samoa Wilson has had a decade long...