The real Rainey would be out of a job just a year later: classic blues was fading in popularity in favor of swing jazz, and ...

Blues musician Charlie Apicella’s formula for success is simple: He awakens every day creating music to make Ma Rainey proud. Apicella never met Rainey, who died in 1939, but he said it is impossible ...

It rained and rained the night before shooting the establishing tent show scene of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Humidity in the rural outskirts of Pittsburgh — standing in for backwoods Georgia — was ...

Viola Davis transforms into the Mother of the Blues for her award-winning role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — and while she delivers a powerhouse performance, former Ikette and soul singer Maxayn ...

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Viola Davis earned her fourth Oscar nomination this week, this time for playing Ma Rainey, the famed singer from Alabama and “Mother of the Blues” whose story inspired the critically acclaimed Netflix ...

In a rundown Chicago recording studio in 1927, tempers rise and simmering conflicts erupt when the “Mother of the Blues” and her band record a set of jazz and blues standards. Fiery and determined, Ma ...

Lou Bellamy's raucous and masterful production of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at the Guthrie Theater includes two scenes of intense, thorny silence when America's tortured race history comes screeching ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Columbus, Georgia is place known for many things, but one distinction the Fountain City can also claim is the being the home for the “Mother of the Blues” Ma Rainey. On 805 5th ...

Viola Davis transforms into the Mother of the Blues for her award-winning role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — and while she delivers a powerhouse performance, former Ikette and soul singer Maxayn ...