Bman's Blues Report

        Big Tyme Presents The Swingers Ball 16 - The Masquerade Ball At The Famed Willowbrook Ballroom - Saturday, March 30  ...

Larry "Big Twist" Nolan heartily epitomized the image "300 pounds of heavenly joy." Based in Chicago, the huge singer an...

George T. "Sonny" Cohn (March 14, 1925 – November 7, 2006) was an American jazz trumpeter. After working for fifteen years with R...

Georgia White (March 9, 1903 – c.1980) was an African American blues singer, most prolific in the 1930s and 1940s. Little is known of her e...

Laura Lee (born Laura Lee Newton, 9 March 1945, Chicago, Illinois) is an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter, most successful in ...

Award winning blues record producer Scott Dirks, whose credits include work with Alligator and Delmark records, and a who's who of Chic...

Carey Bell-voc/harmonica Louisiana Red-git Jimmy Rodgers-git Lovie Lee-piano Queen Sylvia Embry-bass Charles"Honey Boy"Otis-drums ...

For over a decade, Marty “Big Dog” Mercer’s heartfelt, southpaw Blues and soulful voice has growled through the Chicagoland music scene. Mer...

Tragically under-recorded until late in his career, Chicago blues guitarist Andrew Brown still had time enough to wax a handful of great sin...

James Edwards "Jimmy" Yancey (February 20, 1894 – September 17, 1951) was an African American boogie-woogie pianist, composer, and...

            "Chicago's Hardest-Working Blues Band...For Over Two Decades!"                               ...

CHICAGO BEAU Bandleader, Vocal, Harmonica, Percussion, Author Chicago Beau (L Beauchamp), was born on the south-side of Chicago on 13 F...

Big John Wrencher (February 12, 1923 - July 15, 1977), also known as One Arm John, was an American blues harmonica player and singer, wel...

Internationally known Graná Louise has delighted countless music fans around the world with her outstanding shows. Whether belting out Bl...

The only album by Blind Arvella Gray, a nearly forgotten street singer who spent the latter part of his life performing folk, blues and ...

Vance Kelly (born January 24, 1954) is an American soul blues singer and guitarist, who has performed regularly at various music venues in...

Harold Lomax Ousley (born January 23, 1929, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist. Ousley...

When talking about deep bluesmen who are also great entertainers, the conversation will eventually get around to the coolest bassman/sing...

Israel Crosby (January 19, 1919 – August 11, 1962) was an African-American jazz double-bassist born in Chicago, Illinois, best known as m...

Rob Blaine- Born in Chicago 1981, moved to Michigan, grew up listening to Blues, R&B, Funk, Rock, Soul, because of his father. Began ...