This past summer, I was having dinner at a local restaurant in Dallas that had beautiful guitar music playing. When I looked around the room, I noticed a guy playing the guitar flawlessly and I ...

Though he would most likely embrace this notion reluctantly, if at all, Gary Clark Jr. stands tall among the few contemporary ...

The NCPA Soulful Blues Festival is back for its third edition and promises to bring in the crowds to watch three great ...

Rock ‘n’ roll was really created by jazz musicians and jazz session players.” “In the end, I guess I classify what I do as rhythm and blues, but there’s a lot of different kinds of music in there too, ...

House of Blues in Chicago, IL Returning to Chicago ... Trumpeter Bennie Cowan has been in the fold for more than 40 years, as has saxophone player Greg Thomas, with both continuing to supply ...

Rock ‘n’ roll was really created by jazz musicians and jazz session players.” “In the end, I guess I classify what I do as rhythm and blues, but there’s a lot of different kinds of music ...

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Music students learned from the professionals by performing in a saxophone master class at El Camino College on Thursday, ...