In the mid-1800s, a German harmonica manufacturer named Hohner started exporting his product to North America. Being relatively inexpensive, relatively easy to play and extremely portable, the ...

August 24, 2025 .Tacoma, Washington held its first annual Downtown Tacoma Blues and Jazz Festival on August 24, 2025, with a first-class lineup of new blues players, veterans and some in between. And ...

“The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn’t know how other people would take it.

Paul Vincent Perez has dreamed of opening a place like Westside Blues and Jazz for quite some time. "This club's been on my bucket list for 25 years," Perez says of the speak-easy-inspired lounge on ...

This audio is no longer available. The Mississippi Blues Project, produced by WXPN in Philadelphia, is a yearlong endeavor that showcases the rich musical heritage of the Magnolia State. From R.L.

Blues and jazz continue to play a key role in the musical history of the Detroit area, even as other music takes over the mainstream scene. The downtown area's fabulous blues clubs bring the best of ...

Samantha Fish will headline the 2025 Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival on Aug. 16. The Grammy-nominated blues guitarist is one of five acts in the lineup announced Thursday. Admission is free for the ...

The cultural, sociological and technical histories of jazz and motion pictures have run in parallel, sometimes intersecting, lines ever since both forms emerged at the end of the nineteenth century.