Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues style of the 1940s, and BB King, above, headed the blues revival in the 1960s Chattanooga-born Bessie Smith, nicknamed the Empress of the ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

Delta blues is the foundation for that. When we listen to blues music of the 1920s, it's like looking through a window at the experience people are having at the time. Typically, blues artists ...

In 1924 jazz and blues burst into the world of the classical orchestra thanks to trailblazer George Gershwin, who composed music full of the energy and playfulness of New York City in the 1920s.