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Those with a sense of history may remember Calvin Owens for his two long tours of duty with B. B. King, serving as B.B.'s first music director during the 1953-57 affiliation ( the Kent Years) and then as bandleader for King's orchestra from 1978 until 1984. Among the results of their collaboration was a 1983 Grammy Award-winning album called “Blues n Jazz,” for which Owens wrote all the arrangements. Owens, born in New Orleans Fifth Ward, migrated with his mother to Houston, Texas, where at thirteen he began playing trumpet. Joining a vaudeville show after high school, Owens later met B
B.B. King: The Montreux Years
By BB King
Label: BMG
Released: 2026
Track listing: All Over Again; Ain't Nobody Home; Blues Boys’ Tune; Blues In A; The Thrill Is Gone; When It All Comes Down (I'll Still Be Around); Early In The Mornin’; Caldonia; Guess Who; Rock Me Baby; Stormy Monday.
Stop Lying In My Face - Big Band Hip Hop
By Calvin Owens
Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2005
Another Concept
By Calvin Owens
Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2004
The House Is Burning
By Calvin Owens
Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2002
Keeping Bigband Blues Alive
By Calvin Owens
Label: Not On Label (Calvin Weston Self-released)
Released: 2000
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