The Texan troubadour knew how to give the crowd their money's worth, and players such as Jimi Hendrix were watching. This ...

A Birmingham festival act was forced to halt their performance and change venue midway through their set today. A band ...

The Sanilac County Historic Village & Museum will host an outdoor concert featuring the Royal Oak Blues Band on Sunday, Aug. 3, from 1 to 3 p.m.

The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites.

If you love jazz music and always wanted to play in a jazz orchestra, don’t give up your dreams and try out some of the easiest jazz instruments to learn. It is never too late to start learning.

The 10-year anniversary of the Creekside Blues & Jazz Festival will introduce several new events, including a Sunday jazz brunch, a youth blues and jazz musician contest and the "Jog for Jazz" 5K.

The word blues was used in titles whether the tune was blues, jazz, ragtime or neither. When Nick La Rocca's all-white Original Dixieland Jass band made the first jazz recording in 1917, ...

Carter introduced the piccolo bass on Blues Farm, his 1973 CTI debut, but that more pasteurized date was far less successful than its follow-up, All Blues, just a few months later. Rather than working ...

Moreover, the band’s free-wheeling spirit, as their music careened between blues, jazz, and whatever else they fancied taking in, opened Anderson’s eyes to different instrument combinations.

The Highland Jazz and Blues Festival held an announcement party June 25, just three months shy of the event. ... playing a guitar alongside band members on other jazz instruments.

If you're having trouble finding jazz and blues at the Jersey Shore, come by Highlands. ... which features Riggio on multiple instruments, from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, May 22.

Bob Koester, who died May 12 at age 88, knew what he liked—and what you should like too. For nearly 70 years, he owned Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart (and the Delmark label), and it was completely ...