Gene Ludwig has remained a local Pittsburgh phenomenon for most of his life, despite some recording and/or touring stints with jazz notables like Sonny Stitt, Pat Martino and Arthur Prysock.

Blues is as much celebration as it is pain, an affirmation of one’s soul whether wrenching to the core over life’s troubles or definitively casting those troubles aside and saying “not this day you ...

Photo by Hyunsoo Leo Kim Rashod Ollison is the author of -Soul Serenade.- (Photo: Hyunsoo Leo Kim) Vinyl is making a comeback. Those are five words that put a smile on a music aficionado's face. A CD ...

Rashod Ollison was once the pop music critic of The Baltimore Sun. He’s now an award-winning music and culture writer at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. His new memoir, “Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues ...

Music has always been a part of Rashod Ollison's life. His new memoir, Soul Serenade, is a story both of songs and hardships. His father left the family when he was only 6. He writes that his mother, ...

Rashod Ollison is many things. The award-winning journalist is black; he’s a music critic; he’s gay. In his new memoir, Ollison recounts his childhood experiences marked by pain, poverty, dysfunction ...

Aside from extended touring with Sonny Stitt, Arthur Prysock, as well as in a trio co-led with Pat Martino, Hammond B3 Organ master Gene Ludwig’s activities have primarily taken place within the ...

Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray continue to reinterpret the early days of rock'n'roll, emphasizing the rawness and raunchiness of it all. Save this story Save this story It's a Beatles world, which ...