Jazz singer and recording artist Barbara Rosene gives Blues Alley audiences a taste of Tin Pan Alley this Friday night, with two shows featuring the holiday music of Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer.

About the Album: Prior to 1912, there had only been a handful of compositions with "blues" in the title. Songs like "The Richmond Blues" were actually marches and 'blue' was merely the color of a ...

"1950-1965 supplement by Dr. Larry Freeman" included in v. 2. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...

Award-winning actress and vocalist Gabrielle Lee and her swinging four-piece jazz band will deliver an evening of ragtime, blues and Tin Pan Alley jazz standards celebrating Black History Month. A Tin ...

Some aspects of America’s popular roots music story are certainly better and more widely understood than used to be the case: Yes, country music leaned heavily on the blues, swing jazz and soul, and ...