Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a contemporary swing revival band from Southern California. Their notable singles include "Go Daddy-O", "You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)", and "Mr. Pinstripe Suit". The band played at the Super Bowl XXXIII half-time show in 1999.

Franklin played a Fender Rhodes piano on four cuts, including "Eleanor Rigby", "Spirit in the Dark", "Don't Play That Song" and "Dr. Feelgood". Backing Franklin was King Curtis' band, the Kingpins, featuring Cornell Dupree on guitar, Bernard Purdie on drums, and Jerry Jemmott on bass, Billy Preston on organ, Curtis on saxophone, together with the Memphis Horns.

Soul Man is the second album from The X Factor UK series 2 runner-up Andy Abraham. It was released 13 November 2006 and peaked in the UK Album Chart at number 19 with first week sales of 23,505.

2NU (later 2NU2) is an American pop music group based in Seattle, Washington. Their music consists of spoken word performances accompanied by beats and sound effects. They are best known for their single "This Is Ponderous", which reached #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991. Original band members included Michael Nealy (lyrics), Jock Blaney (lead and background vocals), Phil DeVault (keyboard, synclaver, guitar), Tom Martin (bass). In 2009, their song "Crossroads" was featured in a television commercial for Johnnie Walker.

6CD Box Deluxe Digipack filled with 77 key tracks from the best Jazzmen. Each CD is featuring one of the legends of the golden age of Jazz: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck.

Blues in Orbit is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia label in 1959 and released in 1960.
The original liner notes by Teo Macero described this album as primarily a blues album (as most of the track titles indicate). The album was re-released on CD in 2004 with bonus tracks including alternate takes and tracks from earlier sessions.

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras. His career spanned over 50 years, leading his orchestra from 1923 until he died.
He is widely regarded as the most important jazz composer and bandleader, with some admirers even seeing him as America's greatest composer in any musical field, with a vast library of compositions, from pop songs to extended works. The sidemen in his band included many leading jazz soloists, and he influnced many younger performers, from Miles Davis and Charles Mingus to Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan.

Jazz Party is a 1959 album by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra which contains a "formidable gallery of jazz stars" guesting, including Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Rushing (formerly the vocalist for Count Basie). It featured also a 9-strong percussion section on two tracks.
The recording was first digitally remixed by Larry Keyes and remastered by Vlado Meller in 1987 and released on CD in the "CBS Jazz Masterpieces" series. A new remastering by Bernie Grundman in the early 2000s was first issued by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab.

The Blues is the second album by blues artist B.B. King, released in 1958 by the Bihari brothers on their budget Crown label. The album collects 12 tracks that King recorded between 1951 and 1958 for Kent and RPM. As common practice with the record label, Crown released The Blues off the strength of the single "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer", a Top 10 R&B chart single in 1958, to help sell a collection of less-popular songs. King's signature style of single-note riffs and powerful string bends is...

Live at the Apollo is a blues album by B.B. King and the Phillip Morris "Super Band" recorded at the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. It was awarded the 1992 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.

Би Би Кинг - блюзмен из Америки, считается королём блюза. Его влияние оказало на всех последователей электрогитарного блюза. В 2003 году по результатам опроса журналом Rolling Stone Би Би Кинг в списке "100 лучших гитаристов всех времен" заняв 6 место, и величайшим из всех ныне живущих. В 1980 году был включен в Зал Славы Блюза а в 1987 году его официально включили в Зал славы рок-н-ролла и ставшим одним из первых артистов отмеченных этим музеем.Впечатляющий список наград Би Би Кинга, свидетельствует о великом вкладе в развитие мировой музыкальной культуры.

В 1936 оркестр услышал продюсер Джон Хэммонд, который помог Бэйси и его музыкантам приехать в Нью-Йорк. В отличие от других оркестров, в которых было всего 2-3 импровизирующих солиста, в бэнде Бэйси почти все музыканты были выдающимися джазменами. Это позволяло насыщать репертуар быстрыми пьесами, основанными на гармонической схеме блюза, и почти «на ходу» сочинять риффы (короткие повторяющиеся на протяжении всей пьесы мелодико-ритмические построения), поддерживающие темпераментных импровизаторов. В 1936 году в оркестре Каунта Бэйси играли первоклассные солисты — Бак Клейтон, Харри Эдисон, Хот Липс Пэйдж, Лестер Янг, Хершел Эванс, Эрл Уоррен, Бадди Тэйт, Бенни Мортон, Дикки Уэллс и другие. Ритм-секция была признана лучшей в джазе. С оркестром Бэйси выступали знаменитые вокалисты Джимми Рашинг, Хелен Хьюмс и Билли Холидей (1937-38). Мировую известность оркестру принесли такие композиции как «One O’Clock Jump» (1937), «Jumpin' At The Woodside» (1938), «Taxy war Dance» (1939) и многие другие.

B.B. King Sings Spirituals originally appeared as a Crown LP in 1959, but it was less a collection of singles than a true labor of love for King, who took it as an opportunity to return to the Baptist and Pentecostal church music of his childhood. This Diablo Records reissue reproduces the Crown LP in the original sequence. It's easy to forget that King isn't just a blues player with a particularly distinctive guitar style; he is also a singer, and in the 1950s he really worked more to the R&B side of the field than to the blues half

Антуан Доминик Домино (Antoine Dominique Domino, род. 26 февраля 1928), более известный как Фэтс Домино (Fats Domino), — американский пианист и вокалист, один из родоначальников рок-н-ролла. Обладатель почётной награды «Грэмми» (1987) и один из двадцати пяти величайших музыкантов эпохи рок-н-ролла по версии журнала Rolling Stone.Одна из первых записей Домино — «The Fat Man» — была распродана в 1949 г. тиражом свыше миллиона экземпляров и привлекла всеобщее внимание к этому добродушному толстяку с забавным южным акцентом. Эта песня до сих пор остается одним из основных соискателей титула первой рок-н-ролльной записи.