The owner of the popular Madam’s Organ blues bar and restaurant in Adams Morgan said he has asked D.C.’s mayor for permission to fully reopen by requiring every person in the club to provide proof of ...

Reuben Wilson’s blues band settles in nice and cozy. It’s a celebration! Nods to Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff fit appropriately into a session of traditional good time blues. Melvin Butler lends a ...

The Hammond organ has had a fascinating history in jazz. Fats Waller and Count Basie played it with great style and aplomb but it was not until many years later that the instrument caught on in a huge ...

August is a month of music festivals—from staid chamber music in Vermont barns to raucous fringe upheavals in city parks. It is also a time of organ concerts. Especially in Europe these take place ...

Jimmy McGriff, the celebrated blues organist, loathed disco so much in the mid-1970s that he sought sanctuary in Hartford from that mind-numbing pop pap fad. “When disco came on strong and cut into ...