Category : Performance

Jimi Hendrix, born Johnny Allen Hendrix on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington, was a pioneering musician whose impact on the world of rock and...

Albert King, original name Albert Nelson, (born April 25, 1923, Indianola, Mississippi, U.S.—died December 21, 1992, Memphis, Tennessee), an American blues musician who created a...

Sonny Boy Williamson, byname of John Lee Williamson, (born March 30, 1914, Jackson, Tenn., U.S.—died June 1, 1948, Chicago, Ill.), American blues vocalist and the...

Pinetop Perkins, (Joe Willie Perkins), American blues pianist (born July 7, 1913, near Belzoni, Miss.—died March 21, 2011, Austin, Texas), performed with such blues greats...

Charles Brown was an influential American blues singer, born on September 13, 1922, in Texas City, Texas, and passed away on January 21, 1999, in...

A Pioneer of West Coast Jump Blues Floyd Dixon, born Jay Riggins, Jr., on February 8, 1929, in Marshall, Texas, was a trailblazer in the...

The blues is a genre of music that originated in the African-American communities of the southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th...

Boogie-woogie emerged as a vibrant and energetic form of blues piano, characterized by its emphatic percussive quality that mimics the rhythmic pulse of everyday life....

Jerry Wexler, (Gerald Wexler), American record producer and music journalist (born Jan. 10, 1917, New York, N.Y.—died Aug. 15, 2008, Sarasota, Fla.), coined the term...

Soul music is a term adopted to describe black popular music in the United States as it evolved from the 1950s to the ’60s and ’70s....