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  • Wednesday
    10th June

    • Jeff Beck – Performing This Week Live at Ronnie Scott’s

      Presenter
      shy swan

      Jeff Beck, master and wizard of the axe, pick, slide, indeed the entire electric guitar toolbox, needs no introduction.

      Recorded live during a 5-night gig at one of the oldest jazz clubs in the world, ronnie scott’s of Soho, London, no matter how many JB albums you may have in your collection, this gem’s a shiner… more »

  • Tuesday
    4th November

    • Little Walter - His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection)

      Show
      Morning Magazine
      Presenter
      Stephen Hall

      These are the recordings that changed the sound and style of blues harmonica forever. Marion Walter Jacobs (b. 1930 Louisiana) was influenced by Sonny Boy Williamson (No. 1) and Louis Jordan with his jump saxophone arrangements and then revolutionized the blues harmonica technique after arriving at Chicago’s notorious ‘Maxwell Street’ market in 1947. more »

  • Thursday
    23rd October

    • CW Stoneking - Jungle Blues

      Author
      Jason Price

      C.W. Stoneking, the champion of hokum is back with his second album, Jungle Blues. After befriending four scientists in a bar in the Port of Spain, Trinidad, C.W. decided to accompany them across the Atlantic, deep into the jungles of West Africa, where he was struck by the dreaded jungle blues, and thus giving rise to this fantastically evocative album. more »

  • Friday
    12th September

    • B.B. King - One Kind Favor

      Presenter
      Stephen Hall

      Geffen Records

      B.B. King might be eighty-two years old; but he still has what it takes; stylish, elegant, and classic are the words that come to mind in attempting to review this album.

      BB King has been recording for sixty years, he was first taught the guitar by his cousin, Bukka White, for 10 months in 1946… more »

  • Friday
    22nd August

    • Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With The Blues

      Presenter
      Stephen Hall

      Blue Note Records

      A country harmonica solo followed impeccably by a jazz trumpet solo! Huh?

      Miles Davis once said he enjoyed listening to Willie Nelson because he had a jazz sense to his music. Nelson has always had jazz nuances in his vocal style and his off-the-beat phrasing… more »

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