Jump Blues & Piano Blues: Best Sellers

This is a two-CD, 48-track compilation of, as the no-frills title suggests, songs that were R&B hits in 1950. Jump blues, piano boogies, and bluesy ballads form virtually the [more]

Count Basie's Columbia years have long been debated, subject to apocryphal written data and legend because of the willy-nilly nature of his tenure with the label [more]

When Document's first volume devoted to Barrelhouse Piano Blues and Stomps was released in 1994, the producers made the bizarre decision to [more]

This two-disc set follows the legendary Blue Note label from its inception as the smallest of independent labels, issuing 12" jazz singles in the [more]

{Boogie Woogie & Barrelhouse Piano, Vol. 1 (1928-1932)} contains a selection of material from the classic early blues pianists Pine Top Smith, [more]

Founded in 1945 in Nashville by Jim Bulliet, Wally Fowler, and C.V. Hitchcock, Bullet Records was one of the most successful independent record labels in the [more]

The light blues and jazz of Ray Charles' early recordings were heavily influenced by Nat King Cole, and Charles frequently recorded in a similar [more]

This CD has the final 20 recordings by the good-time hokum/blues singer Lil Johnson, including eight performances that were [more]

It reads splendidly on paper: Shout Factory's Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans is a [more]

Champion Jack Dupree began his musical journey as a barrelhouse New Orleans piano player, and elements of that driving style stayed with him [more]

In keeping with his jazz/pop crossover ambitions, Ray Charles decided to record a concept album of sorts with a dozen songs devoted to various parts of the U.S. -- "Alabamy [more]

Consider that Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson was the premier, and almost the only boogie-woogie pianist to come out of Detroit. Consider that he retired from the music business [more]