Tiny Bradshaw

Tiny Bradshaw Sings the Blues

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
January 4, 2017

The great migration of the early 1940s by African-Americans from the South to the West and Midwest in search of war-plant work had a profound impact on music nationwide. Young families from the South brought with them a passion for the blues, but once they settled in the urban markets of Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and other cities, their tastes shifted from the rural Delta sound to the dance-able boogie-woogie and jump blues. As jazz fans, we too often think ...
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