In honor of this year's Public Radio Music Day, discover regional musicians heard on KNKX, who frequently perform live throughout the Pacific Northwest.

The New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market, a non-profit organization on a mission to bring the most talented, accomplished and passionate jazz and blues musicians to the stage, announced today that it will ...

“My goal is to build a new context around the blues,” says Carl “Buffalo” Nichols, and that’s precisely what the Texas-based musician is doing. His 2021 self-titled debut, Buffalo Nichols, saw him ...

The CBS News show “60 Minutes” recently proclaimed Jourdan Thibodeaux “Cajun music’s equivalent of a rock star,” saying he has become “something of a global ambassador for Cajun country and its way of ...

Annie and the Fur Trappers headline the Bay State Hot Jazz Festival in Medford this weekend. Their front woman spoke to GBH Music about the magic of ‘20s jazz, and what to expect at the free festival.

One of the defining sounds of jazz is the blue note—a pitch slightly lowered from the standard scale. These notes give jazz ...

Richland Parish traditional old-style Delta blues act Po' Henry and Tookie will be honored with a historical marker as part of the sign route in Rayville. Po' Henry and Tookie is an interracial blues ...

Joshua Howell’s electric guitar sounds are brittle and gritty, sometimes hypnotic and often searing with buzzing inflections if he uses a slide. On harmonica, his playing is full-winded, by turns ...

An autumn music festival is returning for its third year, with even more venues taking part. The Rochester Cathedral Jazz and ...

Together with Kenny Ball and Acker Bilk, he was one of the 'Three B’s' who defined traditional jazz in Britain and spearheaded the 'Trad' revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Barber had briefly ...