2016 Blues Music Award Winner Billy Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan. Price is the vocalist on two of Buchanan's LPs, That's What ...

Editor’s note: Kansas City jazz broke onto the national scene when the Coon-Sanders band first broadcast on The Kansas City Star’s radio station, WDAF. A week later, a live broadcast from 11:30 p.m.

The big band eras before and after the bebop revolution will be explored and contrasted in this exciting double bill. When Toshiko Akiyoshi came to prominence in the 1970s, a big band was an anomaly.

There's no mistaking the Memphis Nighthawks knew and loved traditional jazz, but what really distinguished the group was its blend of fire, drive and enthusiasm. On the 30 year-old sessions collected ...