Black History Meets Black Music: 'Blues People' At 50 : A Blog Supreme In 1963, a jazz-obsessed, college-educated black Beat poet in New York wrote a "theoretical endeavor" linking the ...

You could describe Ray Charles as one of the most famous Black blues singers from the 50s, but that would mean discounting ...

Delmark 50th Anniversary Collection, Part 2. As part of the label’s 50 th Anniversary Celebration, Chicago’s own Delmark has released two double-disc sets highlighting the label’s jazz and blues lines ...

Ethel Waters was a pioneering jazz and blues singer whose career began in the 1920s and continued into the ’50s and ’60s. Her powerful voice and dynamic performances made her a standout artist.

Alligator Records, one of the most respected labels in the world, celebrates its 50th anniversary, today (June 18th), releasing "50 Years Of Genuine Houserockin' Music," a collection of remastered ...

Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s well-traveled “Lackawanna Blues,” a loving but sharp-witted remembrance of a boardinghouse queen and her raffish subjects, rambles like an extended improvi… ...

Many blues artists died before any of their music earned any money, ... Killer Blues Headstone Project has recently discovered more than 50 additional blues musicians’ gravesites that are unmarked.

In the 50 years since, it has never been out of print. "The book was originally titled Blues: Black and White," says Baraka, ... The blues is just music that comes out of ...

Impact and Influence of Black Singers from the 1950s 15th September 1954: Keith Edwards and Queenie Marques, two newly arrived immigrants from Jamaica relax to the sound of Keith’s trumpet playing.

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, […] Black singers from the 1950s: Influence, legacy, and cultural ...