Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. A

A brilliant, wide-ranging book on how Miles Davis's seminal 1959 jazz album "Kind of Blue" revolutionized music and culture in the 20th century.

Bobby “Blue” Bland’s silky-smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clubs and

The first biography of New Orleans rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino, by a writer who obtained exclusive access to the reclusive singer.

In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A