blues

Listeners spent summer nights with jazz greats and blues artists.

Looming behind the bluesman is a blackboard, on which a genealogy of the blues has been chalk-drawn in an orderly hand.

The cool blues of “Winter” are raked through with rich purple, as hints of evergreens creep in from the edges.

We talked and he told me that he had this blues song he had been working on since he was a kid.

He recalled a night when he was 19 and going to a blues bar with fellow comedians John Belushi and Robin Williams, and “they put some blow on the table.”