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Memphis Shakedown: More Jug Band Classics
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Blues Band Box
:Album Description:At last! A 4 CD box set which chronicles the band's history and recording career from their first recordings up to the present day. Features a total of 78 tracks, including rare and unreleased items, and a lavishly produced booklet with in-depth notes by official Blues Band historian Roy Bainton, plus loads of memorabilia care of Tom McGuinness All tracks digitally remastered! BGO RECORDS. 2005.
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Let The Good Times Roll 1938-1954
:Album Description:At last! A 4 CD box set which chronicles the band's history and recording career from their first recordings up to the present day. Features a total of 78 tracks, including rare and unreleased items, and a lavishly produced booklet with in-depth notes by official Blues Band historian Roy Bainton, plus loads of memorabilia care of Tom McGuinness All tracks digitally remastered! BGO RECORDS. 2005.
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Chronicles: Live at the Regal/Blues Is King/Live in Cook County Jail
:Album Description:The 'Chronicles' box sets are specially selected original albums presented in a book-style long box. Each album was selected to symbolize a classic period for the artist. Each disc includes original CD booklet. Titles in this set include: 'Live At The Regal,' 'Blues Is King,' and 'Live In Cook County Jail'.
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Them Dirty Blues { Various Artists }
from: Jazz Records
:Album Description:The 'Chronicles' box sets are specially selected original albums presented in a book-style long box. Each album was selected to symbolize a classic period for the artist. Each disc includes original CD booklet. Titles in this set include: 'Live At The Regal,' 'Blues Is King,' and 'Live In Cook County Jail'.
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Empress of the Blues, Vol, 2: 1926-1933
:Album Description:The 'Chronicles' box sets are specially selected original albums presented in a book-style long box. Each album was selected to symbolize a classic period for the artist. Each disc includes original CD booklet. Titles in this set include: 'Live At The Regal,' 'Blues Is King,' and 'Live In Cook County Jail'.
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Singles Collection: The London Years
:Album Description:The 'Chronicles' box sets are specially selected original albums presented in a book-style long box. Each album was selected to symbolize a classic period for the artist. Each disc includes original CD booklet. Titles in this set include: 'Live At The Regal,' 'Blues Is King,' and 'Live In Cook County Jail'.
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RCA Victor 80th Anniversary [9-CD BOX SET]
:Album Description:The 'Chronicles' box sets are specially selected original albums presented in a book-style long box. Each album was selected to symbolize a classic period for the artist. Each disc includes original CD booklet. Titles in this set include: 'Live At The Regal,' 'Blues Is King,' and 'Live In Cook County Jail'.
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Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Story 1945-1955
: :Blues 'n' Rhythm Story devotes two discs to four regions--the Midwest, Southwest, West Coast, and East Coast. Featured artists range from the acclaimed (Professor Longhair, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jay McShann, 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Dinah Washington) to the wayward. Nevertheless, the overall quality is remarkably high. The 88-page booklet helps put the music in perspective. This isn't a modest investment for a collector, but it's certainly among the elite of the R&B collections yet assembled. --Steven Stolder
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The Jazz Singers 1919-1994
: :Singing begot jazz. Sure, that's a vast oversimplification, but there's probably no better way to say it. The voice as the foundation and essential instrument of jazz's evolution is expansively presented in this five-CD box set compiled by Robert O'Meally, biographer of Billie Holiday. His goal, he writes in an accompanying 100-page booklet, is to show the sweep and the development of jazz singing in all its permutations, including blues, bebop, and scat, from the greatest figures--Bessie Smith, Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Jon Hendricks-to smaller or newer gems ...
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