Aaron Cohen

Brazilian singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante imagines more than one world on his recent "Cavalo" (Easy Sound). He uses various musical and spoken languages to shape songs that anticipate movies he may...

Howlin' Wolf shouted and moaned like a man large enough to whip any demon. But this blues hero also possessed incredible control, and in the 1960s and '70s he relied...

Brazilian singer Luisa Maita's soft delivery could be a reaction to the intense volume of her hometown, the sprawling metropolis of Sao Paulo. She has more than one feeling about...

Susan Cadogan sang quietly, and mostly at home, while she spent her days working at a university library in Kingston, Jamaica, in the mid 1970s. She felt self conscious about...

Size and youth became underlying themes of the 28th annual Chicago Gospel Festival, which was held Thursday through Sunday downtown and at Ellis Park on the South Side. Choirs —...

For the 30th annual Chicago Blues Festival, this city proved big enough to show that its hometown-identified sound is far from locally confined. And since this event drew an estimated...

Guitarist Bombino's performance at a wedding in the desert city of Agadez, Niger, six years ago was, in some ways, a typical job. Then 27, he had been playing music...

During the 30th annual Chicago Blues Festival next week, any set definition of the music — or this event's scope — should be busted apart. No doubt, this city will...

During the 30th annual Chicago Blues Festival next week, any set definition of the music — or this event's scope — should be busted apart. No doubt, this city will...

Jamaican singer Derrick Morgan recorded the song "Conquering Ruler" in 1967, and it was no empty boast. He dominated his country's airwaves in the early '60s when he was barely...