Posts about blues music

Johnny Hartman (1923–1983) was an American baritone whose velvety tone and unerring diction made him one of the most cherished interpreters of romantic ballads in[…]

John Mayall (November 29, 1933 – July 22, 2024) was an English blues bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and tireless catalyst behind the 1960s British blues boom.[…]

J. J. Johnson was the pivotal modern trombonist who proved that the slide trombone could speak bebop’s fast, harmonically intricate language as fluently as saxophones[…]

Jimmy Rogers (born James A. Lane; June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was one of the architects of post-war Chicago blues. As Muddy Waters’s[…]

Jesse “Lone Cat” Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was a Georgia-born, Bay Area–based one-man band whose blend of country blues, folk, ragtime,[…]

Jimmy Reed (born Mathis James Reed) was one of the most influential and widely popular blues artists of the post-World War II era. With a[…]

James Henry Cotton (1935–2017) was one of the most electrifying harmonica players in modern blues—an unmistakable live force whose gale-strength tone and showmanship carried Delta[…]

Janis Lyn Joplin, born on January 19, 1943, in Port Arthur, Texas, and tragically departed on October 4, 1970, in Los Angeles, California, at the[…]

J. B. Lenoir (1929–1967) was a singular voice in postwar Chicago blues—instantly recognizable for his bright, high-pitched tenor, sharp social commentary, and flamboyant stage presence[…]

Ida Cox (born Ida Prather) was one of the defining voices of the classic female-blues era of the 1920s. Marketed as the “Uncrowned Queen of[…]