The story goes that the lyrics to “Black and Blue ... she notes, which found expression in the blues. They served the purpose of exploration and distraction. “Blues music of its very ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

But as Perry notes, “blue is contrapuntal ... Mondays — all that’s dismal — lowdown, gloomy music …”) lays bare the workings of language itself: “A random set of meanings ...

The NEA Jazz Master tenor saxophonist George Coleman is known for his memorable opening solo on Herbie Hancock’s title tune “ Maiden Voyage ” (Blue Note 1965). That hardy muscular sound was his entré ...