BLUESMONKEY
"Basin Street, Boogie and the Blues"

You are invited to take a few minutes in the LISTENING ROOM.
Here's a mix of musical styles for your listening and dancing pleasure...

Blues

Aug 8, 1970

Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith finally gets a marker for her grave in Philadelphia, 33 years after her death.   It was blues icon Janis Joplin, who counted Smith among her  greatest influences, that purchased the marker for the grave.

"The way Louis attacks each note, the quality and exact duration of each pitch, the manner in which he releases the note, and the subsequent split second silence before the next note - in other words, the entire acoustical pattern - present in capsule form all the essential characteristics of jazz inflection."
-- Gunther Schuller

*  COMING SOON *
"The Hottest Young Blues Guitarist to come along in sometime"
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In MP3 format in November!
Free downloads - Free Blues

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