B.B. King, Dr. John and the Crescent City Cadenzas, Royal Festival Hall, London, 17 July 1990

JVC Capital Radio Jazz Parade
Early show - 6:30 p.m.

Dr. John and the Crescent City Cadenzas
mp3 https://rapidshare.com/files/2212527316/Dr_John_1990-07-17mp3_320.rar
FLAC https://rapidshare.com/files/1712299375/Dr_John_1990-07-17.FLAC.part1.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/2359882350/Dr_John_1990-07-17.FLAC.part2.rar

B.B. King
mp3 https://rapidshare.com/files/778381768/B.B._King_1990-07-17.mp3_320.rar
FLAC https://rapidshare.com/files/2772693983/B.B._King_1997-07-17.FLAC.part1.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/3655958390/B.B._King_1997-07-17.FLAC.part2.rar

Text with personnel and track listing included with files.

This is not my recording, but was made by a friend of a friend.  This is one of several B.B. King London shows (I do not have recordings of the others) where there were two performances in one evening.  I know the old showbiz saying "always leave them wanting more".  But B.B. King's set was just under an hour, which left me feeling short-changed.

B.B. King, Avery Sunshine, 28 June 2011

The mic gain was set a bit low so you will probably want to play these loud.
https://rapidshare.com/files/726341941/Avery_Sunshine_2011-06-28.rar

Guests for the B.B. King set were Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Mick Hucknall, Slash and Ronnie Wood
https://rapidshare.com/files/2159778613/B.B._King_2011-06-28_part_one.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/1344659456/B.B.King_2011-06-28_part_two.rar

Text file with set listing etc.  (forgot to bundle this in with the .rar files)
https://rapidshare.com/files/2376856660/RAH_2011-06-28.txt

B.B. King, John Mayall, Wembley Arena, 28 June 2009

I'll probably come back to this later and add details of set lists, personnel etc., but for now here are just the download links. Each set plays continuously. I haven't put in track markers. I had to put the B.B. King set into a split .rar to keep within the Rapidshare maximum file size.

I have now gone digital. I used a Zoom H2 for the recording.

John Mayall set reuploaded with track markers and song titles added
https://rapidshare.com/files/1395527259/John_Mayall_2009-06-28.rar
B.B. King
Original upload as one continuous piece
http://rapidshare.com/files/250783025/B.B._King_2009-06-28_whole.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/250790466/B.B._King_2009-06-28_whole.part2.rar
With track markers and song titles added
https://rapidshare.com/files/2243141911/BB_King_2009-06-28.part1.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/2660805987/BB_King_2009-06-28.part2.rar

NEW - 18 February 2011.  The B.B. King set is now availabe in lossless format:
https://rapidshare.com/files/1438972948/BB_King_2009-06-28FLAC.part1.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/1140865408/BB_King_2009-06-28FLAC.part2.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/619717166/BB_King_2009-06-28FLAC.part3.rar

B.B. King, 30 June 1996

Royal Albert Hall, London
30 June 1996

Support act -Big Joe Turner's Memphis Blues Caravan

Only 19 minutes. This was still back in the days when I tried to fit everything on one tape. To preserve as much as possibe of the B.B. King session, I flipped the tape and overwrote some of the BJT stuff.

The history of the blues has seen more than one "Big Joe Turner". This one was a bass player who had worked with B.B. King amongst others. Sadly he is no longer with us. For more information see: http://www.joeturnerblues.com/history.htm



I don't have the complete line-up, but from contemporary accounts I have found, I think the vocalist must be Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges

01 I'm Leaving on that Midnight Train(?) (incomplete)
02 No Response
03 My Take-Home Pay Just Won't Take Me Home
http://rapidshare.com/files/195654131/Big_Joe_Turner_1996-06-30__320.rar

B.B. King
Orchestra: Leon Warren (guitar), James Toney (keyboards), Walter King (saxophone), Melvin Jackson (saxophone), James Bolden (trumpet), Michael Doster (bass), Calep Emphrey (drums)

01 Opening Theme - B.B. King Orchestra
02 Slow blues in A flat
03 enter B.B. King (gap in the middle to change tapes)
04 Let the Good Times Roll
05 Chains of Love
06 When It All Comes Down
07 Five Long Years
08 Paying the Cost to be the Boss
09 Eight Bar Blues in G
10 We're Gonna Make It
11 Blues Man
12 All Over Again
13 Why I Sing The Blues (end missing)
http://rapidshare.com/files/195667497/B.B._King_1996-06-30_tracks_1-13__320.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/195674346/B.B._King_1996-06-30_tracks_1-13__320.part2.rar
14 Rock Me Baby (start missing)
15 Guess Who
16 The Thrill Is Gone - exit
http://rapidshare.com/files/195681319/B.B._King_1996-06-30_tracks_14-16__320.rar

Sorry about the shouty man who was sitting near me.