His music remains as powerful today as it was ... Finish story here; 10 Essential B.B. King Blues Songs to Celebrate Black History Month 2025.

Greg Johnson, head of special collections and professor in the UM Libraries, places a record on the Blues Archive’s antique ...

JACKSON, Miss. — B.B. King, born Riley B. King on Sept. 16, 1925, in Itta Bena, Mississippi, was an icon in music history. With his groundbreaking guitar playing and soulful voice, King became a ...

Blues is the ancestral parent of jazz, so it’s appropriate that Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts an annual Blues Jam to showcase ...

Grammy-nominated and seven-time Blues Music Award winner Janiva Magness has released a dozen and a half albums in the last 34 years, with her 17th album, “Back for Me,” scheduled for release from Blue ...

Metro Concerts Live announced Wednesday that prodigy jazz and blues performer Kingfish will ... winning musician who has been likened to B.B. King, is well-known for his live performances and ...

At the Community Center, Magee met guitarist Butch Rosenberg and his focus turned to music ... a fellow blues traveler? “Someone playin’ a whole lot of notes,” he says. “BB [King] could ...

Back in 1989, when Joe Bonamassa was 12 years old, he had enough guitar chops to open for the legendary B.B ... blues charts, the all-time record. And Bonamassa, who is playing Feb. 28 at the MGM ...

The annual Annie Malone May Day Parade, known as the second largest African American parade in the country, announced on Tuesday its 2025 parade scheduled has been canceled. The WorldPride Music ...