Results for "B.B. King"

B.B. King and Paul G. Allen to be Honored by Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday, October 26

October 14, 2008

14-time GRAMMY winner and Blues Legend will receive the Institute's Founder's Award; Microsoft Co-Founder will receive the 2008 Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award (Los Angeles, Calif.)--the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz announced that 14-time GRAMMY winner and blues legend B.B. King will receive the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Founder's Award and Microsoft Co-Founder and Global Philanthropist ...

B.B. King: One Kind Favor

by Woodrow Wilkins
September 29, 2008

It's well-established that the blues, an art form born out of the Mississippi Delta cotton fields in the early 1900s, is a root of all forms of popular music: rock, pop, jazz, funk and even hip-hop. The man known as Riley B. King was born in the environment of that Delta, and has since become the ...

B.B. King & His Orchestra Live Album Reissued on New Acrobat Music Label

September 9, 2008

B.B. KING AND HIS ORCHESTRA LIVE ALBUM TO BE REISSUED IN U.S. AS PART OF ACROBAT MUSICS PREMIER COLLECTION Concert, recorded at MIDEM in 1983, features Kings classic songs NEW YORK, NY As part of Acrobat Musics US label launch, B.B. Kings B.B. King & His Orchestra Live will be released October 21, 2008, marking the ...

B.B. King & His Orchestra Live Album Reissued on New Acrobat Music Label

September 5, 2008

Concert, recorded at MIDEM in 1983, features King’s classic songs NEW YORK, N.Y. — As part of Acrobat Music’s U.S. label launch, B.B. King’s B.B. King & His Orchestra Live will be released October 21, 2008, marking the recording’s first availability in the U.S. The album was recorded in January 1983 in Cannes during the international ...

B.B. King Cuts Fifties-Style

July 3, 2008

In the Studio: B.B. King Cuts Fifties-Style Set When producer T Bone Burnett first met with B.B. King, he presented the blues legend with a simple mission statement: “I'd like for you to go back to the Fifties and do some of the stuff as you did it then." At 82, King wondered whether he could ...

Darling, You Know I Love You

Featuring the music of B.B. King
Duration: 6:10
September 7, 2007

B.B. King & Friends - 80

By B.B. King

Label: Crown Records
Released: 2005

Let The Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan

By B.B. King

Label: MCA
Released: 2000

King Of The Blues

By B.B. King

Label: Crown Records
Released: 2000

Dot Com Blues

By Jimmy Smith

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: Only in It for the Money; 8 Counts for Rita; Strut; C.C. Rider; I Just Wanna Make Love to You; Mood Indigo; Over and Over; Three O'Clock Blues; Dot Com Blues; Mr. Johnson; Tuition Blues; Since I Met You Baby.