Nina Simone & Etta James live albums are forthcoming on both CD and vinyl from BMG and the Montreux Jazz Festival. Classic jazz recordings you need to own! New jazz releases and reissues are being ...

Etta James has been one of the foremost R & B and blues singer this country has produced. She has also demonstrated on many occasions that she can easily bring her hard charging style successfully to ...

Two years shy of her 70th birthday, blues singer Etta James looks better than ever. After struggling with a weight problem most of her life, James underwent gastric bypass surgery and dropped nearly ...

The soulful artist battled personal demons throughout her six-decade career headlined by her signature ballad "At Last." By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Etta James, the sassy R&B and blues singer whose ...

4. "The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry)," 1955: Along with "At Last," James' recording of this let's-get-up-and-swing jukebox standard is in the Grammy Hall of Fame. There's also a slightly more ...

Its show, “Have You Ever Heard of Etta James?” will take place on the grounds of Huntington Library, Art Museum, and ...

The celebration of survival and a deep bond of camaraderie are characteristics that have helped define the blues scene over the years. So when one of their extended family needed help and one of their ...

LOS ANGELES -- Etta James, the feisty R&B singer whose raw, passionate vocals anchored many hits and made the yearning ballad "At Last" an enduring anthem for weddings, commercials and even President ...

LOS ANGELES -- Etta James' performance of the enduring classic "At Last" was the embodiment of refined soul: Angelic-sounding strings harkened the arrival of her passionate yet measured vocals as she ...