But Jackson’s influence has soaked into many more musicians than just Staples. Duke Ellington featured Jackson’s voice on the milestone 1958 album, Black, Brown and Beige, and later wrote a ...

But in Mexico City in 1975, Tito was very much the young bluesman. As seen during one part of the show, which was filmed for release, Tito, then all of 22, begins the interlude with mellow blues ...

The two-hour film documents a concert that was put on in Chicago in 1972 to support Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, with an all-star cast of performers that also included the Staple Singers ...