The born-in-Chicago revue Low Down Dirty Blues explores both the sociopolitical oppression and the sexual hunger that inspired many a great blues song. Though the piece still needs work, it already ...

In 1938, jazz/blues pianist and singer Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe—better known as Jelly Roll Morton—sat down behind the grand piano at the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. It was at the ...

For Mark Dufrene Jr., the Dirty Water Blues Band has been years in the making. Dufrene, drummer and vocalist for the band, said he and guitarist Dexter Danos have grown up together in the music ...

Michael Feldman had been making music for a long time. Maybe too long, he thought. “I played music onstage, like, my whole life. I decided I was giving it up, the late nights, the hauling gear,” he ...

Early on in the 2014-15 season, the Milwaukee Rep staged "The Color Purple." It's a show actress Felicia P. Fields knows very well; after all, her turn as Sofia in the Broadway musical scored her a ...

Chicago, IL--Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans announce the World Premiere of Low Down Dirty Blues, by Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman, the creators of It Ain't Nothin' ...

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