The blues is ripe with legends and myths, not least the oft-touted claim that W.C. Handy was the father of the blues. But as Darryl. W. Bullock tells it, there is an important tract of blues history ...

Ragtime duo Cherry and Jerry took an audience back in time as they performed early Blues music Sunday at Missouri River Regional Library. Heads were swaying and feet were stomping as the piano and ...

In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library of ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Smithsonian curator John Troutman and blues musician Dom Flemons about the new folk music album, Playing for the Man at the Door. DOM FLEMONS: This is a collection that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LOS ANGELES — If the Kings weren’t cognizant of the records they were setting, they certainly seemed eager to hit their marks as they slathered on five goals ...