Home » Search Center » Results: Willie Dixon

Results for "Willie Dixon"

News: Recording

Etta James, Sarah Vaughan & Brecker Bros Box Sets Due in August from Legacy

July 15, 2012

The ultimate year-round jazz festival from Legacy Recordings continues to set a new industry standard with three new Complete Album Collections from the Sony Music archives family of labels, by the greatest names in modern jazz: THE BRECKER BROTHERS - THE COMPLETE ARISTA ALBUMS COLLECTION (Arista/Legacy) – 8 titles, 8 CDs ETTA JAMES – THE COMPLETE ...

News: Performance / Tour

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats Celebrate New Release in Morrisville, PA

July 14, 2012

Sacramento-based rocking blues masters Rick Estrin & The Nightcats will celebrate the release of their new Alligator CD, One Wrong Turn, with a live performance at the 30th Annual R&B Picnic in Morrisville on Saturday, July 21, 2012. Harmonica icon/vocalist/songwriter Rick Estrin, along with The Nightcats — jaw-dropping guitarist Chris “Kid" Andersen, singing drummer (who plays ...

Article: Live Review

Kuala Lumpur International Jazz Festival: 19-20 May, 2012

by Ian Patterson
June 8, 2012

KL International Jazz Festival Kuala Lumpur Convention CenterKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaMay 19-20, 2012The 19th and 20th of May, 2012 will long be remembered by jazz lovers in Kuala Lumpur as the day jazz came to town. The 13 acts that performed on the stage of the KL Convention Center made history by ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

The London Blues of Zoë Schwarz

by C. Michael Bailey
April 29, 2012

The American music genres blues and jazz are the subatomic particles of every note played since their commission to media in the early part of the last century. While one did not beget the other, were this a Venn diagram, there would exist an overlapping of blues and jazz in that place behind the roadhouse on ...

127

Article: Extended Analysis

Eric Bibb: Deeper In The Well

by Chris May
March 2, 2012

Eric BibbDeeper In The WellDixie Frog2012As bluesman Willie Dixon affirmed, you can't judge a book by looking at its cover. But you often can from reading the first paragraph. Switching your receptors from visual to audio, so it is with the first few bars of an album's opening ...

102

Article: Multiple Reviews

Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings Collector’s Edition Box Set

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 25, 2012

Bill WymanBill Wyman's Rhythm Kings Collector's Edition Box SetProper American2011 From all accounts, founding member Bill Wyman resigned from the Rolling Stones in 1992 because he was weary of the frantic pace of life as bassist for “The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band."Wyman's bass ...

News: Performance / Tour

Blues Rocker Tinsley Ellis to Perform in Sellersville

January 5, 2012

Blues-rocking guitarist/vocalist Tinsley Ellis will perform at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Ellis will be performing songs from his latest Alligator release, Speak No Evil. Over the course of 11 albums and literally thousands of live performances, Ellis is one of today's most electrifying guitarists and vocalists. Rolling Stone says he ...

Article: Live Review

Tom Hambridge and George Thorogood: New York, NY, September 27, 2011

by Mike Perciaccante
October 29, 2011

Tom Hambridge and George Thorogood B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill New York, New York September 27, 2011 It was a cool Tuesday evening in New York city. Inside B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill, there were no signs of the so-called recession evident as the cash registers behind the ...

News: Recording

Historic "Buddy & The Juniors" Available at Hip-O Select, Retails June 28

June 15, 2011

In 1969, guitarist Buddy Guy got together with his old Chicago blues buddy Junior Wells, added in jazz pianist Junior Mance, and cut a loose, “unplugged" session for Blue Thumb Records that became the now-legendary album Buddy And The Juniors. Now, on the occasion of Buddy Guy's 75th birthday, the album makes its first-ever domestic CD ...

News: Performance / Tour

Rick Estrin & The Nightcats to Perform in Edgely, PA, Sunday 17 April

March 30, 2011

Blues harmonica master /singer/songwriter Rick Estrin and his band The Nightcats will perform at the Terchon V.F.W. in Edgely on Sunday, April 17, 2011. Estrin and The Nightcats will be performing songs from their Alligator Records debut, Twisted. For more than 30 years and nine albums, Estrin fronted the jumping, swinging Little Charlie & The Nightcats, ...