After 34 vibrant years, the Springing the Blues Festival is ending, citing fulfilled mission goals and evolving event landscapes.

Buddy Guy's The Blues Don't Lie, which is nominated for a Grammy for best traditional blues album, is nominated here for contemporary blues album. By Paul Grein Blues and soul harmonicist, singer, and ...

Saxophonist Ray Blue has a sound and style that are energetic, powerful, and sensitive. Ray takes you for a musical ride that is characterized by passion and precision. He delivers dynamic poetic ...

New to the blues? Here’s what you need to know to get you started. Blues music is a genre that grew out of the American dream. Its roots were firmly planted in the New World before it migrated to ...

The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Robert Glasper and more from the Blue Note catalog.

R&B and blues legend Latimore died on Saturday, according to multiple reports. He was 86. Latimore, whose real name was Benjamin William Lattimore, is best known for his 1974 hit “Let’s Straighten It ...

Atlanta is a big enough town that finding a list of a dozen bars offering life-sized jenga and another dozen where bocce ball is close to club sport is easy to do. Yet, if you wanted to make a list of ...

Lolo Zouaï knows what it's like to have bad days, and she's not afraid to show it in her music. "Days like this make me feel like shit," she starts off her track, "Blue." "I get stressed when my ...