In the 1940s, Detroit <answer>blues</answer> artist John Lee Hooker became a long-term resident in the city's southwest Delray neighborhood. Hooker, among other important <answer>blues</answer> musicians migrated from his home in Mississippi bringing the Delta <answer>blues</answer> to northern cities like Detroit. Hooker recorded for Fortune Records, the biggest pre-Motown <answer>blues</answer>/soul label. During the 1950s, the city became a center for jazz, with stars performing in the Black Bottom neighborhood. Prominent emerging Jazz musicians of the 1960s included: trumpet player Donald Byrd who attended Cass Tech and performed with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers early in his career and Saxophonist Pepper Adams who enjoyed a solo career and accompanied Byrd on several albums. The Graystone International Jazz Museum documents jazz in Detroit.
What type of music is John Lee Hooker known for?
blues