Greg Johnson, head of special collections and professor in the UM Libraries, places a record on the Blues Archive’s antique ...

Blues is the ancestral parent of jazz, so it’s appropriate that Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts an annual Blues Jam to showcase ...

The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at ...

Miles Davis and Ray Charles. Thornetta Davis as Bessie Smith (from left), Sky Covington as Billie Holiday, Veronique Musique as Nancy Wilson, Lady Vonne as Phyllis Hyman and Lucretia Sain as ...

He named it Antone’s and gave it the hopeful moniker, “Home of the Blues,” during a time when ... Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, James Brown, and even a surprise appearance from U2.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in ...

a blues guitarist, was a regular performer. He formed Tony! Toni! Toné! in 1986 with his half brother, Charles Ray Wiggins (later known as Raphael Saadiq), who sang and played bass, and their ...