Lynda Wallace of Bowie, Md., right, dances at a soul line dancing night in Jessup, Md., on Feb. 26. (Photo by J. Lawler Duggan for The Washington Post) The beat speaks through his feet. Nelson Spires ...

“If we had a Berry Gordy in Cleveland, we would have been stars,” stated Art Blakey, recalling the famed Motown Records founder and Blakey’s own vocal group from the 1960s, the Hesitations. Blakey isn ...