Two definitive blues albums, The Best of Muddy Waters and Moanin’ in the Moonlight, are each, in their own right, a powerful collection of blues songs.

Revisit perhaps the most iconic Jazz Messengers album this week as we mark what would have been Art Blakey's 100th birthday. The legendary drummer fronted many iconic Messengers line-ups, but their ...

Jazz fans will argue forever over the best version of The Jazz Messengers. Was it the group with Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan that made A Night in Tunisia in 1960? The 1954 edition with Horace Silver, ...

The Moanin’ Frogs, an energetic all-saxophone sextet, will perform at the University of Nevada, Reno campus for community members, University students, and middle school and high school students from ...

In the days following the death of the Empress of the Blues, newspapers across the nation carried the story. One day after the Sept. 26, 1937, fatal car crash, The Chattanooga News carried the story ...

Matt Ganucheau introduced the Moaning Lisa to a receptive audience at Arse Elektronika in San Francisco this weekend, although Lisa herself didn't seem to be in the mood. Oh, she moaned all right, ...

Inge Borkh is a tall (5 ft. 9 in.), handsome opera star with a crushing tennis backhand and a disconcerting habit of sitting about nude in her dressing room. Both her athletic bent and her theatrical ...

Friends of Chamber Music of Bryan–College Station will kick off its 29th series at 5 p.m. Sunday with a free, open-air concert by The Moanin’ Frogs, a group of six saxophones of all sizes, on The ...

Live Music – Saturday, August 23 Don’t miss Scott Rhiner and the Moanin’ Blacksnakes live at Neighborhood Bar, playing from 10PM to 12AM. 📍 6138 W. Charleston Blvd. A gritty, soulful blues set in the ...

Throughout its history, jazz has constantly evolved, developing from and reacting against its earlier incarnations. The mid-1940s saw bebop reinvent jazz as an artist's genre, distinct from the swing ...

Revisit perhaps the most iconic Jazz Messengers album this week as we mark what would have been Art Blakey's 100th birthday. The legendary drummer fronted many iconic Messengers line-ups, but their ...