Released 1983 Love Me Tender
(1982) Blues 'N' Jazz
(1983) Release date 1983 Genre Blues | Producer Sidney A. Seidenberg Artist B.B. King Label MCA Records | |
Recorded M. & I. Recording, New York City and Rivendale Recorders, Pasadena, Texas Blues 'N' Jazz
(1983) Better Than Ever
(1984) Similar Six Silver Strings, King Size, To Know You Is to Love You, Makin' Love Is Good for, Take It Home | ||
Blues 'N' Jazz is the twenty-eighth studio blues album by B.B. King released in 1983. It was recorded on his 57th birthday, September 16, 1983.
Writing in the album sleeve-notes, producer Sid Seidenberg says: "Recording his forty-first album on his birthday in New York was a highlight of B.B.'s career. Returning from one of his most successful tours, in Europe where he played at most of the continent's jazz festivals. B.B. King went into the studio with "his friends" from Blues and Jazz and began to express himself."
Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Eugene Chadbourne writes:
Blues 'N' Jazz is a terrific documentation of King's big band during the '80s, sexed up just perfectly with choice guest stars. Tenor saxophonist Arnett Cobb's presence was duly noted by hipsters one and all in a decade when soulful saxophonists once taken for granted began to be feted, even lauded with documentary films. Shorted on appreciation as always, although some of the Grammy glory must have rubbed off, the journeymen of the King road band enterprise give off a huge part of this project's glow. Damning with faint praise, critics approaching the album from retrospect admit that it is a different stew entirely then later King hits sarcastically dubbed "blues lite." Sure it is, since King's touring ensemble always plays with a lot more heart than that.
The album won a Grammy Award for best blues album of 1983.
Songs
1Inflation Blues4:12
2Broken Heart2:43
3Sell My Monkey3:02