It’s a Mother’s Day tradition here on Black Music Sunday to celebrate mothers and other nurturing folks with music from multiple genres. This Mother’s Day installment will be no different. Our fourth annual maternal music exploration will include both jazz and blues tunes about mothers—loving them, treasuring their advice to us, and sadly, how it feels when we lose them. Mother’s Day has been criticized as a commercialized event, but I enjoy listening to how mamas play a role in music across... Read this story
