It’s been six years since boogie-woogie pianist Erwin Helfer has been able to grace the Chicago Blues Festival with his music, and that’s too long. At age 82, Helfer may be Chicago’s last living ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago blues piano player Piano C. Red, who performed with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Fats Domino and Buddy Guy before being paralyzed in 2006, has died. Red’s son, James Britton, ...

In 2010, a day after drumming before 27,000 blues fans, with pop star John Mayer’s trio at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in a Bridgeview soccer stadium, prolific session musician Steve Jordan ...

Jimmy Johnson, who grew up picking cotton and listening to the acoustic guitar blues of his native Mississippi before moving north to become one of the great Chicago electric blues guitarists and ...