Rod Piazza is part of the last great generation of African-American blues artists. And he’s white. In her fantastic new book, “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson describes the black migration ...

Rod Piazza doesn’t know the last time he was in Lincoln. But the blues harmonica master is sure that it has been years since he played the Zoo Bar. “I don’t remember the last time I was there,” Piazza ...

For Rod Piazza, playing the blues isn’t just an ordinary pursuit. The legendary harmonica player considers it to be his life’s calling. “It wasn’t a choice for me. I heard the blues, and it chose me,” ...

When we think of virtuosity —- Glenn Gould on piano, YngwieMalmsteen on guitar, Victor Wooten on bass —- we rarely considerharmonica players. Even some of the best known musicians to pickthem up, such ...

Anyone can play a harmonica. You blow out, you draw in, attempt a chord. It sounds like something, but it’s probably not blues harp. Where guitar slingers dazzle and sting, harp players spend time in ...

Rod Piazza is so busy, he is not sure where he is. “I’m about 300 miles from where I’m supposed to be playing,” he says, talking from a pay phone on the road. (According to his Web site, he is going ...

The blues of Rod and Honey Piazza is universal. Sure, we call it Chicago blues, but their magic formula has spread all over the world. He sings and plays a mean harp, while Honey drives hard with a ...

When you make a living singing the blues, you want something to cruise in that matches the vibe and personality of the genre. Enter Rod Piazza and his black-as-a-moonless-night-on-the-bayou '62 Bel ...

Rick Holmstrom is well known to blues fans as the lead guitarist in the award-winning West Coast band Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers. By Billboard Staff Rick Holmstrom is well known to blues fans as ...

A man working with his wife is rare. One that does so in music is even more so. So blues harmonica player and band leader Rod Piazza completely understands when the first question he gets when he sets ...

It's widely accepted that the blues are cool. Likewise, it's equally understood that jazz is cool. Which would make the merger of something like swing music and Chicago blues extremely cool. Center ...