I found out a few days back that John Geils Jr. had died. He was guitarist and namesake of the J.Geils Blues Band, Boston’s unruly pack of mostly Jewish and all-white lovers of R&B, soul and blues.

There was a time, right around 1985, soon after the J. Geils Band called it quits, that founding member Danny Klein put down his bass guitar. "I went to cooking school in Cambridge," said Klein by ...

The J. Geils Band came to prominence first in the early 1970s with its R&B-influenced blues rock sound and then again in the 1980s when it shifted its focus toward a more new wave approach. The band ...