Having made that point, let’s get back to a more traditional blues standpoint and consider players such as BB King, Albert ...

Low Country Blues has touches of the Americana ... Records from the golden age of rhythm and blues still dazzle, but their sound is compressed and muddy. Here we have a top-class band reproducing ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their ... piano or guitar which make up the rhythm section. Below you can watch and listen to a selection of these instruments played by musicians ...

Roberta Flack, the gifted rhythm and blues singer and pianist, passed away February 24 from cardiac arrest. She was 88 years old. Flack developed ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease ...