B.B. King: Blues 'N' Jazz
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 23 July 1983
A FEW years ago, B.B. King let it be known that there were three albums that he had always wanted to record: one album of country songs, one swinging, jazzy tribute to Louis Jordan and one album of 'standards'.
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