Remembering Trumpet Black on a Rainy Monday Morning
Monday morning was still overcast and rainy, but at least the rain had breaks in it. My homeboy Darren and I went and picked up …
Monday morning was still overcast and rainy, but at least the rain had breaks in it. My homeboy Darren and I went and picked up …
This year, the On Location: Memphis International Film and Music Festival moved to Labor Day Weekend, which was also the date of the Memphis Music …
The Havana Mix in downtown Memphis is primarily a cigar lounge, but occasionally books live music, often on Friday evenings. So when my drummer friend …
Back in the 1980’s, Henning, Tennessee became famous as the hometown of writer Alex Haley, whose genealogical novel Roots was a best-seller in the late …
The Oxford Blues Festival was not held on the Square this year, as I would have expected, but rather on the Grove on the Ole …
Radio Memphis is a superb internet radio station that for the last four years has been supporting Memphis music and musicians. So for their fourth …
Jazz is the forgotten piece of the Memphis music puzzle. People who are familiar with Isaac Hayes, Al Green or Otis Redding have likely never …
A year or so ago, Joshua McCain & The Soul Seven were playing every week at a place in Hickory Hill called El Toro Loco, …
Audie Smith has been well-known around Memphis as an extraordinary keyboard player, so when I saw that his band Prime Cut was playing at the …
Jazz is getting increasingly harder to find in Memphis these days, and if that wasn’t bad enough, it recently got voted the least-popular genre of …