Also in 1955, B.B. King recorded "Every Day I Have the Blues". King attributed the song's appeal to arranger Maxwell Davis: "He [Davis] wrote a chart of 'Every Day I Have the Blues' with a crisp and relaxed sound I'd never heard before. I liked it so well, I made it my theme ... ... The induction statement includes: "Everyday I Have the Blues" is one of the most ubiquitous of all blues songs, a required number in the repertoires of the countless bar and lounge bands of many genres. Its late entry into the Blues Hall of Fame reflects the fact that no strong consensus emerged as to which of the hundreds of recorded versions was most deserving. But it often is associated with B.B. King, and so the first of his own many versions gets the honors.

Midnight Without You is the second studio album by trumpet player Chris Botti. It was released by Verve Forecast Records on May 20, 1997. Botti co-wrote the album title track with The Blue Nile.

Бонусный диск к видеоверсии концерта Криса Ботти 5 декабря 2006 г. в Лос-Анджелесе с оркестровой поддержкой. Исполнены лучшие композиции из двух альбомов - "When I Fall In Love" и "To Love Again". К его программе присоединились Sting, Jill Scott, Paula Cole, Burt Bacharach, Renee Olstead, Paul Buchanan, and Gladys Knight.

Impressions is the tenth studio album by American jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, which was released on April 17, 2012 through Columbia Records. The album debuted and peaked No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart. On February 10, 2013, the album received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.

Chris Botti in Boston is a live album by American jazz trumpeter Chris Botti. It was released on CD and DVD on March 31, 2009 through Decca Records.
The album was certified platinum in the US and diamond in Poland. It was nominated at the 2010 Grammy Awards in categories Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Long Form Music Video, while "Emmanuel" received a nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement.

This very special sampler is a celebration of the TRUE STEREO process for recording Naim has used for the majority of their releases over the last ten years. “True Stereo” is one of the most faithful techniques that exists to capture music in a recorded format. The final sound results from recoding with just a single pair of microphones set up in a space with good natural acoustics. The end result offers the listener a ‘live’, acoustically realistic perspective on the music without processing or electronic manipulation of any kind. Because the sound is recorded direct to stereo, there is no opportunity for mixing or manipulating it after the recording has been made.
The positioning of the microphones is critical for this kind of recording: microphone placement represents the only opportunity that our engineer, Ken Christianson, has to adjust the levels. For example, more or less bass is achieved by positioning the bassist closer to or further from the microphones.
Ken’s techniques – developed over a period of many years – are illustrated in the booklet which accompanies the True Stereo Sampler. There are diagrams showing the placement of instruments and microphones, and details on the specific sound characteristics of the room that was used for the recording.

Ну и что же можно сказать о музыке? Мы видим типичное количество треков, а именно - 42, но это не говорит о том, что за каждыми 50-ю секундами этого музыкального полотна скрывается сущий ад. Напротив, примерно каждая четвертая композиция представляет собой именно джаз, в его лучших традициях, но с вкраплениями истинной гринды. Как известно, лидер банды - саксофонист, хотя о нем немного позже. Представляют собой эти треки несложный, на первый взгляд, но замороченный прогрессив-джаз, с (порой) смешными гитарными мелодиями и хлипкими барабанами и без вокала, иногда прерываемые мгновениями полной вакханалии с криками и изрядным сверхскоростным молотиловом.

Universal's double-disc Icon doubles the size of their single-disc set of the same name and covers the same ground only in greater detail, adding a few more live tracks and studio staples to draw a greater picture of his ABC and MCA recordings of the late ‘60s, ‘70s, and beyond. It’s a bit shorter than 2006’s Gold and not quite as rounded, yet it’s still a very good sampler of B.B. King at his latter-day best.

Ray Charles Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians, he preferred being called "Brother Ray". Charles was blinded during childhood, possibly due to glaucoma.

Что же касается музыки "Naked City", то на альбоме "Grand Guignol" она стала более трудно усваиваемой. Виртуально работа подразделялась на три части: первой являлся заглавный 18-минутный трек, напоминающий звуковую дорожку фильма жанра саспенс, далее шли транскрипции композиторов-классиков (Дебюсси, Скрябин, Лассо, Айвз, Мессиан), а в конце были собраны короткие вещи преимущественно джаз-грайндового характера.