NEW YORK -- -- Alan Lomax, the celebrated musicologist who helped preserve America's and the world's heritage by making thousands of recordings of folk, blues and jazz musicians from the 1930s onward, ...

On a small, grass-covered plot next to a quiet country road a few miles northwest of Clarksdale, Mississippi, stands a plaque identifying “Muddy Waters’s House.” The blues pioneer “lived most of his ...

The Library of Congress will host a workshop on pianist Jelly Roll Morton tomorrow at noon in Washington, D.C., at the legendary Coolidge Auditorium, where Morton recorded his famous repertoire nearly ...