Jazz guitar fans should be thrilled by this lavish box set from Proper. Just as they did with they equally impressive survey of jazz drumming (Engine Room: A History of Jazz Drumming From Storyville to 52nd Street), the English label focuses here on one of the less-hailed components of the jazz firmament.

В компиляции собраны треки Jesse Green, Jim Gilstrap, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke и других - приятного прослушивания.

Indianola Mississippi Seeds is B. B. King's eighteenth studio album. It was released on October 1970 on ABC Records on LP and May 1989 on MCA Records on CD. On this album B. B. King mixed elements of blues and rock music. Producer Bill Szymczyk decided to follow up on the success of the hit "The Thrill Is Gone" by matching King with a musical all-star cast. The result was one of King's most critically acclaimed albums and one of the most highly regarded blues crossover albums of all time.

Каунт Бэйси - американский джазовый пианист, органист, знаменитый руководитель биг-бэнда. Бэйси был одной из самых значительных фигур в истории свинга. Он сделал блюз универсальным жанром - в его оркестре звучали и быстрые блюзы, и медленные, и трагические, и гротесковые.

A classic Tony Bennett album has to be among any collection of the best singers of the second half of the 20th century. His definitive versions of so many songs, especially Stranger in Paradise and I Left My Heart in San Francisco, are part of the memories of practically anyone born before 1950. This album brings together the favourites and is one I shall keep in the car to make every journey that bit pleasanter.

Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan — Трибьют-альбом посвящённый американскому джазовому саксофонисту и певцу Луису Джордану (Louis Jordan). B.B. King выиграл премию Грэмми за трек '' Is you is, or is you ain't (My baby) '' в дуэте с Dr. John, в номинации ''Лучшее вокальное поп сотрудничество''.

To Know You Is to Love You is the 22nd studio electric blues album by B. B. King, released in 1973. Produced by the musician and producer Dave Crawford in Philadelphia, it features the participation of Stevie Wonder, the Memphis Horns, and members of the famed MFSB session group, who formed the house band for Philadelphia International Records in the early and mid 1970s.