Jimmy Johnson

In 2001, the Danish label Storyville released this unusual CD, which is rare today. It contains recordings from a 1975 concert at Ma Bea's in New York, originally released in 1975 in France on vinyl with eight songs. And now there are 14 songs on the disc, 7 are performed by Jimmy, and the other 7 - by Luther Johnson. Everyone has their own group, among the sidemen there are famous people: Big Voice Odom (vocal), Willie Lyons (guitar), Willie Kent (bass). Both brothers perform classics of blues and soul blues: "So Many Roads", "Crosscut Saw", "I Believe My Time Ain't Long", "All Your Love", "Same Old Blues".

'Steve Gadd Band' is the eponymous follow up album to the 2016 Grammy-nominated 'Way Back Home'. Contains mostly original, groove-oriented tracks written by the band and produced by the legendary drummer, Steve Gadd. Steve Gadd Band is Walt Fowler (trumpet/flugelhorn), Kevin Hays (keyboard), Jimmy Johnson (bass), Michael Landau (guitar) and of course, Steve Gadd (drums).

A first-tier blues and jazz guitarist, Dave Specter, whether working solo as a bandleader or as a sideman for artists like Johnny Littlejohn or Son Seals, has always brought intelligence and sharp, crisp playing to the music table, a sort of contemporary version of T-Bone Walker.

Jimmy Rogers was very much a musician's musician – the kind of guitarist that earned accolades from contemporaries and successors alike – yet one who never wins a wide, mainstream audience. Blues Blues Blues was designed as the album that would find Rogers a larger audience, and as such, it has all the bells and whistles of a big-deal blues album. It has the classics ("Trouble No More," "Bright Lights, Big City," "Sweet Home Chicago," "Don't Start Me to Talkin'"), remakes of Rogers standards ("Ludella," "That's All Right"), cult covers (Muddy Waters' "Blow Wind Blow," which kicks off the album on just the right note) and an astounding number of guest appearances, including cameos from (get ready): Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, Lowell Fulson, Johnnie Johnson, Eric Clapton, Taj Mahal, Ted Harvey, Carey Bell, Stephen Stills, and Jeff Healey.