At a Frankie’s Blues Mission show, the music rarely stays onstage for long. The audience responds in real time to the band’s ...

On "My World is the Sun," Dominique Fils-Aimé explores her own truth, via a solid mix of jazz, soul, and blues.

When soul jazz was born in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it provided a pathway for the funky, window-rattling grooves of contemporary soul and R&B to infuse the muscular hard bop of the day. For the ...

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, in the ...

The Suffers, a "Gulf Coast soul" band, will perform at the 2025 Erie Blues and Jazz Festival. Formed in 2011, the band blends diverse influences, from soul and jazz to gospel and R&B. The Suffers have ...

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HAS it got soul? Man, that’s the question of the hour. If it has soul, then it’s tough, beautiful, out of sight. It passes the test of with-itness. It has the authenticity of collard greens boiling on ...

The 2025 Erie Blues & Jazz Festival will be held in early August at Frontier Park. A panel discussion about jazz and the festival will be held in July at the Jefferson Educational Society. A fierce ...

Music, much like language, never stays in one place too long; it continuously changes and develops. When bebop came onto the jazz scene, for example, it didn't take long for this evolutionary process ...

If you’ve been wondering when Glendale’s Westside Blues, Jazz and More will make its long-awaited return, there’s finally an answer. The speakeasy-style nightclub and music venue, located at 17045 N.

Good news for local concertgoers lamenting the recent closure of Glendale’s Westside Blues, Jazz & More: It turns out that it’s only temporary. The speakeasy-style nightclub and music venue, which ...