Ragtime duo Cherry and Jerry took an audience back in time as they performed early Blues music Sunday at Missouri River Regional Library. Heads were swaying and feet were stomping as the piano and ...

And right in the middle of it all, Harlem Renaissance music was changing the way the world listened. But most people only ...

DOM FLEMONS: This is a collection that was just - it was known as The Monster. DETROW: That's blues musician Dom Flemons. FLEMONS: You know, you always hear that for each musician that recorded, there ...

For decades, one of the most legendary private collections of early blues music was just that - private. Now it's available for everyone's ears. DOM FLEMONS: This is the collection that was just - it ...

In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library of ...

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 ...

of diskette: Cottonfield blues, part 2 / Garfield Akers -- 44 blues / Roosevelt Sykes -- Got the blues, can't be satisfied / "Mississippi" John Hurt -- My black mama, pt. 1 / Eddie "Son" House -- ...

The first thing that you have to accept when you write a book about early blues music, Dr. Gregg Kimball says, is that you’ll never solve the mystery of it all. “We just don’t know,” says the author ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Smithsonian curator John Troutman and blues musician Dom Flemons about the new folk music album, Playing for the Man at the Door. DOM FLEMONS: This is a collection that ...