People are often surprised to learn Vanessa Collier describes herself as shy and introverted. Those labels don’t skew with the vibrant and charismatic blues, soul and funk singer and saxophone player ...

World Sax & Rhythm and Blues (World Saxophone Quartet, Nonesuch). Art frequently challenges boundaries and conceptions, but it seldom takes on the very ones that limit art itself. For more than 12 ...

When Chicago blues musician Eddie Shaw played his saxophone, the room seemed to quake. His immense, raspy, growling sound cut through the instrumentals surrounding him. His ornate solos packed vast ...

CHICAGO — It’s one of the most thrilling musical scenes in a film packed with them: Aretha Franklin sings and struts around her tiny Maxwell Street diner, imploring her musician boyfriend to “Think” ...

A rising blues singer and saxophonist whose three albums in five years has gotten her nominated for five Blues Music Awards, will headline downtown Allentown’s 12th annual Blues, Brews and Barbecue ...

It should be a celebration for the senses at the 30th Erie Blues & Jazz Festival at Frontier Park from Friday through Sunday. An extensive variety of blues and jazz music acts, film screenings, dance ...

Blues and soul music fans know that the soundtrack to early rock' n' roll ran on three-minute instrumentals with sax in the lead, and was directly related to 1950s and 1960s New Orleans R&B hits, ...