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Guitarist, singer and songwriter T-Bone Walker was one of the most important and influential pioneers of the electric blues sound, specially the style most closely associated with the West Coast &ndas...
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Doris Day was one of the most universally popular entertainers of the post-war era on both screen and record, her stunning good looks and vivacious personality matched by an ability to handle pop song...
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This release continues the series of “America’s Greatest Hits” which over the years has provided annual collections of the biggest hits of each year in the Billboard pop charts. The ...
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Sarah Vaughan was one of the illustrious coterie of female vocalists who spanned the genres of jazz, big band music and sophisticated pop during the post-war era to provide some of the finest music of...
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Bill Evans was, according to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz “one of the most influential jazz musicians of his generation”, and he was certainly one of the first to embrace the approach of a piano, ...
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Dave Van Ronk was one of the key figures in the coffee-house culture of New York’s Greenwich Village during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, both as a folk-blues artist in his own right and as a friend, ...
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Chet Atkins was one of the most innovative and influential personalities in country music in the post-war decades, both as a highly skilled and distinctive finger-picking guitarist, and as a record pr...
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The Del-Vikings were a doowop and R&B vocal group whose hugely promising career was blighted by contractual and other personnel issues but who had major landmark R&B and pop hits like “Come Go With Me...
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Harry James had one of the most instantly recognisable trumpet playing styles and was second only to Glenn Miller as the most successful bandleader of the early '40s swing era
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