Fans loved the smooth sounds of jazz and catchy doo-opp tunes of the 1950s. This list includes the biggest artists of the ...

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

B.B. King had quite a few incredible performances under his belt, but we're fond of these four songs, in particular.

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues style of ... became the first African- American vocalist to record a blues song, That Thing Called Love, for the pioneering OKeh label.

The words in blues songs usually explain how the singer is ... by musicians from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Back to top What are the features of jazz and blues music? Call and response ...