NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with musician and composer Jon Batiste about his new album, "Beethoven Blues," in which he riffs on classical favorites. On his new album, "Beethoven Blues," pianist, ...

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A jam-packed week of new music releases includes a salute to one of the country’s most venerable blues venues, the return of a visionary British jazz-rap troupe and with new titles from the likes of ...

Led Zeppelin transformed the 1929 blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie into the powerful rock anthem When the ...

It might not be immediately apparent from songs like “Sweet Child o’ Mine” or “November Rain,” but Slash‘s roots are in the blues. “Everybody knows me as a rock & roll guitar player,” he tells Rolling ...

Here are 16 great Delta blues artists. All are Black. Fifteen are men.

Mick Fleetwood will release a new album this fall, a collaboration with ukulele virtuoso and composer Jake Shimabukuro called Blues Experience, out Oct. 18. "I've always wanted to do a blues album," ...

In the nearly six decades since Roomful of Blues was founded in 1967, upwards of 55 members have passed through its ranks. But in all that time, save for a three-month stint, Texas-born Lou Ann Barton ...

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Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new take on Wynton Marsalis’s “Blues Symphony,” a piano cycle by Gregory Spears and Rosa Feola’s solo debut are among the highlights. Detroit ...