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Re-live the evening at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the late-great Blues Legend : B.B. King. Re-live the sparkling evening at London’s Royal Albert Hall with the late-great Blues Legend : Mr. B.B.

A new era is born.

The biannual Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival was one stop on a fifteen-date European tour for B.B. King and his seven-piece band. French national radio was on hand to record the entire concert.

B.B. King is the greatest living exponent of the blues and considered by many to be the most influential guitarist of the latter part of the 20th century. His career dates back to the late forties and ...

B.B. King has, since 1949, recorded some of the greatest blues ever put to wax. With over 50 albums to his credit, he's come from busking on the streets to being one of the most internationally ...

Memphis, Tennessee is pulling out all the stops for what would have been the 100th birthday of Riley B. King—better known as B.B. King—the King of the Blues. The two-day celebration that blends live ...

B.B. King on stage in 2007, toward the end. It was a difficult period for both the guitarist and his audience. Credit: BB King onstage (Toronto, 2007) by Kasra Ganjavi is licensed under CC BY 3.0 ...

"Nobody loves me but my mother...and she could be jivin' too!"In today's world, there may never be another "King of the Blues." Yet, the United States had one...and he lived up to every bit of his ...

JOLIET -- I was warned in advance by Kankakee's Dave Spargur, "If you have never seen BB King live, don't go now. You have waited too late. He is too old to perform like he used to perform." Having ...

Many towns and cities along the Blues Trail have planned festivals, exhibitions and live music to mark the 100th birthday of the homegrown musical legend. The seemingly endless cotton fields and ...