The blues anchored its place in American culture by the 1930s—America’s other unique music, jazz, borrowed from the blues. By ...

As a starting point we might consider the essential musical structure of most of the music we call the Blues. In its basic form it has a three chord structure in a 1, 4, 5 progression. It usually ...

Jazz and blues are types of music that can trace their roots back to the early 20th Century, in the southern United States. Jazz was very popular as it was a fresh, new sound. Different styles of ...

“She did. I do. Our children too.” This is not to say “Black in Blues” is about music, although that’s part of it. But more to the point, it is a book of questions. “Still, I wondered ...

And Arizona Theatre Company‘s “Blues in the Night” is chock full of the music. It is a platform for songs by some of the greatest musicians in the genre, among them Bessie Smith, Alberta ...