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Black & Blue Records is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 record label specializing in swing jazz and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
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Black & Blue was founded in 1968, and in its early years concentrated on reissuing jazz that had been previously released on American labels. The label recorded jazz musicians both in America and France and began issuing much new material, continuing activity well into the CD era.








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Black & Blue Records is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 record label specializing in swing jazz and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
.

Black & Blue was founded in 1968, and in its early years concentrated on reissuing jazz that had been previously released on American labels. The label recorded jazz musicians both in America and France and began issuing much new material, continuing activity well into the CD era.

Artists who have released material on Black & Blue

  • Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy

    Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific United States blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences....
  • Cat Anderson
  • Harold Ashby
    Harold Ashby

    Harold Ashby was a jazz tenor saxophonist. He is perhaps known for his work with Duke Ellington's band and stylistic similarities with Ben Webster....
  • Ray Bryant
    Ray Bryant

    Ray Bryant is a United States Jazz piano and composer.Ray Bryant began playing the piano at the age of six, also performing on bass in junior High School....
  • Milt Buckner
    Milt Buckner

    Milt Buckner was an United States jazz piano and organist, originally from St. Louis, Missouri. He was orphaned as a child, but an uncle in Detroit taught him to play....
  • Arnett Cobb
    Arnett Cobb

    Arnett Cobb was an United States jazz Tenor saxophone.Cobb was born Arnette Cleophus Cobbs in Houston, Texas. His musical career began with the local bands of Chester Boone, from 1934 to 1936, and Milt Larkin, from 1936 to 1942 ....
  • Pat Flowers
    Pat Flowers

    Ivelee Patrick "Pat" Flowers was an American jazz pianist and singer.Flowers started his professional career as the pianist during intermissions at Uncle Tom's Cabin in Detroit when he was 18 years old....
  • Panama Francis
  • Milt Hinton
    Milt Hinton

    Milt Hinton born Milton John Hilton , "the dean of jazz bass players," was an United States jazz double bassist and photographer. He was nicknamed "The Judge"....
  • Oliver Jackson
    Oliver Jackson

    Oliver Jackson , aka Bops Junior, was an American jazz drummer.Jackson played in Detroit in the 1940s with Thad Jones, Tommy Flanagan, and Wardell Gray, and had a variety show with Eddie Locke called Bop & Locke....
  • Illinois Jacquet
    Illinois Jacquet

    Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was a jazz tenor saxophonist most famous for his solo on "Flying Home". He is better known simply as Illinois Jacquet....
  • Jo Jones
    Jo Jones

    Jo Jones was an United States drummer, one of the most influential in the history of jazz....
  • Willie Mabon
    Willie Mabon

    Willie Mabon was an United States Rhythm and blues singer, songwriter and pianist....
  • Jay McShann
    Jay McShann

    Jay McShann was an United States blues and swing pianist, bandleader, and singer.Nicknamed "Hootie", McShann was born James Columbus McShann in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Oklahoma....
  • Sammy Price
    Sammy Price

    Sammy Price was an United States jazz and blues music pianist and bandleader who was born in Honey Grove, Texas, Texas. Price is most noteworthy for his work with his own band on Decca Records, known as the Texas Bluesicians that included fellow musicians Don Stovall and Emmett Berry....
  • A.C. Reed
    A.C. Reed

    Aaron Corthen, better known as A.C. Reed was an United States blues saxophone, closely associated with the Chicago blues scene from the 1940s into the 2000s....
  • Gene Rodgers
    Gene Rodgers

    Gene Rodgers was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He is best known for being the pianist on Coleman Hawkins' famous 1939 recording of "Body and Soul "....
  • Carrie Smith
    Carrie Smith

    Carrie Louise Smith is an American blues and jazz singer.Smith was a member of a church choir that performed at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival....
  • Savoy Sultans
    Savoy Sultans

    The Savoy Sultans was the name of two related jazz ensembles in the twentieth century....
  • Buddy Tate
    Buddy Tate

    George Holmes "Buddy" Tate was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. He has been counted as one of the great tenor saxophone of his generation and was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame....
  • Norris Turney
    Norris Turney

    Norris Turney was an American jazz flautist and saxophonist.Turney began his career in the American Midwest, playing in territory bands such as the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra....
  • Eddie Vinson
    Eddie Vinson

    Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson was an United States jump blues, jazz, bebop and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after a lye-laced hair straightener destroyed his hair....
  • Carl Weathersby
    Carl Weathersby

    Carl Weathersby is a blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Weathersby has worked most notably with Albert King and Billy Branch, and is now a solo musician....
  • Booty Wood
    Booty Wood

    Mitchell W. Bootie, better known as Booty Wood was an American jazz trombonist.Wood played professionally on trombone from the late 1930s....