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Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930 – April 24, 1970) is widely regarded as the foremost postwar Chicago blues pianist. Best known as the[…]

William Bunch (1902-1941), famously known as Peetie Wheatstraw, was an influential American blues musician of the 1930s. His distinctive style, characterized by his piano playing[…]

Ornette Coleman (1930–2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer whose improvisational language drew deeply on the Texas blues and rhythm-and-blues traditions while[…]

Otis Rush Jr. (April 29, 1934 – September 29, 2018) was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, widely recognized as one of the architects of[…]

Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21, 1933, stands as one of the most influential and versatile musicians of the 20th century. Her[…]

Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was a pioneering American jazz pianist and vocalist whose career bridged the worlds of swing, jazz,[…]

Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp — better known to the world as Nappy Brown — was a powerful-voiced R&B and blues singer whose emotionally charged delivery[…]

Memphis Slim — born John Len Chatman and sometimes credited as Peter Chatman — was one of the 20th century’s most influential blues pianists, singers,[…]

Lizzie Douglas — known to the world as Memphis Minnie — was one of the most formidable and influential figures in early American blues. A[…]

Anderson Meade "Lux" Lewis, commonly known as Meade Lux Lewis, was one of the defining piano voices of American boogie-woogie. A powerful and percussive pianist,[…]