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Billie Holiday records ‘Strange Fruit’ and more songs featured on the ‘Lady Sings The Blues’ album (1956)

Billie Holiday's 'Lady Sings the Blues' is an album recorded on June 6, 7, 1956 in New York City and September 3, 1954 in Los Angeles, produced by Norman Granz...

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Samantha Fish ‘bluesifies’ Connecticut (2015)

June 6, 2015 - the Samantha Fish Band - that is Samantha Fish (g, voc), Chris Alexander (b) and Go-Go Ray (d) plus special guest Paul Nelson - is playing...

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We remember Koko Taylor. ‘Koko Queen Of Blues’

This day (June 3, 2009), in Chicago, Illinois, died Koko Taylor, an American Chicago blues musician, known as the Queen of the Blues.Tracklist : Wang Dang Doodle . I’m a...

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Joe Henderson records ‘Page One,’ his debut album for Blue Note (1963)

Joe Henderson's 'Page One' is his debut album recorded on June 3, 1963 and released the same year by Blue Note.Track Listing : 1.Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham) – 08:03 ....

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Nonesuch publish Brad Mehldau Trio’s ‘Blues and Ballads’ featuring Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard (2016)

Brad Mehldau Trio's 'Blues and Ballads' is an album featuring Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums and released on June 3, 2016 by Nonesuch.Track Listing : 1.Since...

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Blue Note publish Lena Horne’s ‘Being Myself’ recorded with George Benson, Donald Harrison, Milt Jackson et al (1998)

Lena Horne's 'Being Myself' is her most recent studio album released on June 2, 1998 by Blue Note.Track Listing : 1.Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues (Jimmy Smith)...

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Sting releases his first solo album : ‘The Dream of the Blue Turtles’ featuring ‘If You Love Somebody Set Them Free and ‘Russians’ (1985)

Sting's 'The Dream of the Blue Turtles' is his first solo album released on June 1, 1985 by A&M, excatly two years after the final Police album. Track Listing :...

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Elton John releases ‘Too Low for Zero,’ his seventeenth album featuring ‘I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues’ and ‘I’m Still Standing’ (1983)

Elton John's 'Too Low for Zero' is his seventeenth studio album produced by Chris Thomas and released on May 30, 1983 by Geffen / RocketTrack Listing : 1.Cold As Christmas...

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Atlantic publish ‘Crosby, Stills & Nash,’ their eponymous debut album featuring ‘Suite : Judy Blue Eyes’ and ‘Marrakesh Express’ (1969)

'Crosby, Stills & Nash' feat. "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" is their first album released on May 29, 1969 by Atlantic.Track Listing : 1.Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Stephen Stills) - 07:25...

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Wynton Marsalis plays Blue Note (2015)

May 29, 2015 - Wynton Marsalis and Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra perform at Harrogate International Festival in England

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This month In Blues Legends 05/12

Sonny Boy Williamson II, Taj Mahal, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Landreth, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy

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Blue Note publish Herbie Hancock’s debut album : ‘Takin’ Off’ featuring ‘Watermelon Man’ (1962)

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Samantha Fish bluesifies Michigan (2014)

May 27, 2014 - Samantha Fish (voc, g), Scot Sutherland (b) and GoGo Ray (d) will share the stage at Callahan's Music Hall in Auburn Hills, MI

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Albert King bluesifies New Jersey (1988)

May 26, 1988 - Albert King and musicians will be on stage at Stanhope House in Stanhope,NJ

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Dexter Gordon records for Blue Note ‘Our Man in Paris’ with Bud Powell et al (1963)

Dexter Gordon's 'Our Man in Paris' is an album recorded on May 23, 1963 in Paris, with Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke and Pierre Michelot and released the same year by...

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Blue Note publish Gregory Porter’s fourth album : ‘Take Me to the Alley’ (2016)

Gregory Porter's 'Take Me to the Alley' is his fourth studio album released on May 20, 2016 by Blue Note.Track Listing : 1.Holding On (Guy William Lawrence, Howard Lawrence, James...

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Blue Note publish Herbie Hancock’s fifth album : ‘Maiden Voyage’ (1965)

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Nonesuch publish ‘Sky Blue Sky,’ Wilco’s sixth album – the first with Nels Cline and Pat Sansone (2007)

Wilco's 'Sky Blue Sky' is their sixth (the first with Nels Cline and Pat Sansone) studio album self-produced and released on May 15, 2007 by Nonesuch RecordsTrack Listing : 1.Either...

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The Blues Brothers Band celebrate Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary (1988)

May 14, 1988 - Atlantic Records celebrate their 40th birthday with more than thirty megastar artists including the Blues Bothers Band plus various singers from Wilson Pickett to Elwood at...

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Wayne Shorter Quartet plays for “Blue Note At 75” (2014)

May 11, 2014 - Blue Note Records celebrate their 75th birthday with Wayne Shorter backed by Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade at Concert Hall of the John F....

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