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How do you feel about men in black suits? Black shoes? Narrow (but not too narrow) black ties? Call me strange, but I've always had a weakness for that look, ever since Jake and Elwood Blues of "The Blues Brothers" perfected the mode in 1980. Always trust the guy in the suit, as my granny used to say. Then in 1997, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones came on the cinema scene wearing the same slim ...

Ben Scharff, left, and Bryan Ortiz are the S.A. Blues Brothers, a tribute act dedicated to Jake and Elwood Blues, the title dudes in the 1980 movie "The Blues Brothers." In the guise of sons of Elwood, Scharff and Ortiz will strut their stuff in "The S.A. Blues Brothers Rhythm and Blues Revue." The bill also includes the Marco Cholo Quintet. Music starts at 8:30 p.m. today at the Overtime ...

Bass player and songwriter Donald 'Duck' Dunn, a member the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo.

Donald Duck Dunn, bass player for Booker T. & the MGs, passed on in Tokyo. The heavy bass notes of Donald Duck Dunn provided the musical bedrock for The Blues Brothers, and such soul stars as Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd, and Sam & Dave.

Donald "Duck" Dunn , the bassist best know to the '80s generation as a member of the The Blues Brothers, died Sunday at age 70. On tour in Tokyo, the respected musician died in his sleep, according to the Associated Press . "Today I lost my best friend, the World has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live," friend and fellow Blues Brothers musician Steve Cropper wrote on Twitter. Cropper ...

Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.

The session musician helped created the gritty Memphis sound in the 1960s and played with the Blues Brothers, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton.

Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.

Bass player and songwriter Donald Duck Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.

Also starred in 1980 hit movie ‘The Blues Brothers’

Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo.