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Koko Taylor grew up in blues culture, as a sharecropper and learning from listening to other singers: Video

September 28, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

28.09. – Happy Birthday !!! By the mid-1990s, Koko Taylor was acknowledged as the...

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Blind Lemon Jefferson, a country blues singer in the early days of recorded music, made enormously popular records: Video

September 24, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

24.09. – Happy Birthday !!! Blind Lemon Jefferson, a country blues singer in the...

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Ray Charles combined jazz, country, gospel and blues to create soul music itself: Video

September 23, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

23.09. – Happy Birthday !!! Singer, composer, arranger, piano player and sonic alchemist, Ray...

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Albert Ammons was a pioneer of the city’s popular boogie woogie piano style: Video

September 23, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

23.09. – Happy Birthday !!! A Chicagoan through and through, Ammons was a pioneer of...

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The blues legend B.B. King and that says it all: Video

September 16, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

16.09. – Happy Birthday !!! The blues had been around for a couple of...

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Lenny Breau played the guitar with natural swing and elegance, treating the instrument like a piano: Videos, Photos

September 12, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

Few guitarists are as beloved by fans and musicians as Lenny Breau. He played...

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The Blues and the Abstract Truth, by Oliver Nelson: Photos, Video

September 6, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

Oliver Nelson arrived in New York City in 1959, a time and place that...

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Memphis Slim says: I’m doing something now that I’ve always wanted to do: Video

September 3, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

03.09. – Happy Birthday !!! John ‘Peter’ Chatman, born on 1915, Memphis, Tennessee, USA,...

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Randy Weston, pianist who traced Africa in jazz and blues, dies at 92: Photos, Video

September 2, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

Randy Weston, who died today at 92, was a jazz pianist. There, now that...

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Horace Silver helped create the rhythmically forceful branch of jazz known as “hard bop”: Video

September 2, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

02.09. – Happy Birthday !!! When Horace Silver once wrote out his rules for...

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Gene Harris: Jazz pianist, Blues master: Video

September 1, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

01.09. – Happy Birthday !!! Gene Harris, a Grammy-nominated jazz pianist who organized and...

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Call John Lee Hooker a “blues legend” and you’re not just mouthing a cliche: Videos

August 22, 2018 http://jazzbluesnews.com

22.08. – Happy Birthday !!! In what would have been his centennial, we take...