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

5877 days ago
All About Jazz14-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 GR... more info

Museum is a tribute to a King

5885 days ago
They're a reminder of those who labored by day in a segregated society. But at night they escaped to Indianola's Church Street to be entertained by a young man later known as B.B. King, who would throw his hat on the ground to catch coins as he conju... more info

Delta museum is a tribute to bluesman B.B. King (AP)

5886 days ago
Yahoo! MusicAP - Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Mississippi Delta. more info

Delta museum is a tribute to bluesman B.B. King

5886 days ago
Associated PressINDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) -- Translucent images of long ago, of black men and women, backs bent, picking cotton under an unforgiving sun, are artistically displayed on standing glass panels in a museum carved out of an old brick gin mill in the Missi... more info

Mojo’s Cold Shot: Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise, “I Thank You”

5889 days ago
PopdoseI’m not much of a modern blues guy; in fact a lot of my pals like to refer to me as a crusty-old, close-minded, purist curmudgeon. ‘Tis true, I’d much rather listen to old Chuck Berry blues instrumentals, ancient John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters,... more info

Vanity Fair has a lengthy, fascinating article ... [Every Picture Tells A Story]

5890 days ago
IdolatorVanity Fair has a lengthy, fascinating article on the travels of Zeke Schein, a guitar aficionado who found a photo purporting to be of B.B. King while trawling eBay one day—and realized that the photo definitely wasn't of King, but may have been a... more info

B.B. King show set for tonight in Detroit

5891 days ago
Detroit Free PressB.B. KING: The guitar king of the blues delivers a world class show, even at age 83. His latest CD, "One Kind Favor," is a collection of classic blues songs. The new B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center that opened earlier this month is a t... more info

Robert Walter Trio Fall Tour

5897 days ago
JamBaseRobert Walter Trio Fall Tour Robert Walter Soul-jazz organist Robert Walter built a reputation as one of America's heaviest jazz-funk crossover musicians. Walter, currently touring as a trio in support of his latest release Cure All, is gearing... more info

EVENT: Millennium Promise Invites You to a Night of Jazz

5898 days ago
All About JazzPromises Made Album Release Party Featuring Grammy-Nominated Jazz Great Kirk Whalum and Friends Millennium Promise, Simmons Family Foundation and Koch Records Host All-Star Benefit Event On Monday, September 29, 2008, philanthropic organizations M... more info

B.B. King: One Kind Favor

5899 days ago
Paste MagazineLegendary bluesman’s new set sits alongside Cash’s American Recordings as autumnal landmark “Times have changed so much, music has changed so much, but those old records still sound pretty good,” said B.B. King recently, referring to the bl... more info

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