"Armstrong is the Prometheus of the blues idiom, and through him the United States exercised its impact on 20th-century esthetics."

Coltrane's playing alternates between blues idioms and the free jazz that would dominate his final work.

Although performing entirely in a traditional blues idiom, most numbers were written by Sonny Black.

Lofton moved on from tap-dancing into the blues idiom known as boogie-woogie and moved on to perform in Chicago, Illinois.

"You could say Amy is doing in the country idiom what I did in the blues idiom," he said.

Several pieces are notable for their European-like sense of tonality ("Jimmy's Mode"), quite at odds with Coltrane's usual work in the blues idiom.

The musicians relaxed into playing in the blues idiom.

Lyrically his songs chronicled the problems of life in the segregated south, bad luck in love and other usual subjects of the blues idiom.

Not since Gershwin's "Lullaby" for string quartet, perhaps, has a blues idiom been so lovingly transferred to a classical chamber medium.

Many of these component pieces have become canonized in the blues idiom and appear in mutated forms regularly in blues lyrics.