BB King at he Sing Sing Prison ( 22 nov 1972)

 BB King was scared to set foot in Sing Sing prison to play for the inmates, but later said it was the best performance of his life King opens the show with a bit of banter with the inmates, showing he had some real comedy chops as well as guitar chops.

 BB King - How Blue Can You Get?/Guess Who (Someone Really Loves You)/I Think You're Cheatin' On Me, Baby

King gave the performance on Thanksgiving in 1972, at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. While talking to NPR, the guitarist explained his reticence to play the prison, saying “I’ve played a lot of prisons since but Sing Sing is the only one that I can remember the name of and the reason is because I was scared. I thought it was the end of my life.”
 

BB King - Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual May 9, 1968

  Jazz Casual was an occasional series on jazz music on National Educational Television (NET), the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The show was produced by Richard Moore and KQED of San Francisco, California.^[1] Episodes ran for 30 minutes. It ran from 1961 to 1968 and was hosted by jazz critic Ralph Gleason. 

  BB King (guitar/vocals)Sonny Freeman(drums)Jim Toney(organ)Mose Thomas(trumpet)Lee Gatlin(sax)

1. "Whole Lotta Love"
2. "I've Got a Mind to Give Up Livin '"
3. "Think I'll Move to the Jungle"
4. "Darling, You Know I Love You"
5. "That's Wrong, Li'l Mama"
6. (Untitled) 

BB King live at the Sing Sing Prison( 22 nov 1972)

Riley Ben King (Itta Bena (Mississippi), 16 september 1925 - 14 mei 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada BB King R.I.P.

The Sing Sing Correctional Facility is een maximaal beveiligde gevangenis van de New York State Department of Correctional Services in de stad Ossining, New York. Het is gelegen op ongeveer 30 mijl (50 km) ten noorden van New York City aan de oevers van de Hudson River. Oorspronkelijke naam Ossining's, 'Sing Sing', afkomstig van de Native American Sinck Sinck (Sint Sinck) stam van wie de grond is gekocht in 1685


BB King - How Blue Can You Get?

Op 22 Nov 1972 vond er en benefiet concert plaats voor de gevangenen van de Ossining Correctional Facility (Sing Sing Prison)De optredende artiesten waren BB King,Joan Baez,Mimi Farina en The Voices Of East Harlem.


Guess Who (Someone Really Loves You)

BB King gaf een geweldige show,let maar eens op de reactie ,s van het,,publiek,,
Ik denk dat de samenstelling van de band als volgt was:Joseph Burton (trombone)
John Browning (trumpet)Sonny Freeman (drums)Wilbert Freeman (bass)Milton Hopkins (guitar)Louis Hubert (tenor saxophone)Ron Levy (piano)Earl Turbinton (alto saxophone)
Met deze bezetting stond hij een jaar eerder in The Filmore East


I Think You're Cheatin' On Me, Baby

Dit optreden komt van de DVD
,,Sing Sing Thanksgiving,,
Produced and directed by David Hoffman and Harry Willard

BB King - Guess Who

To mark the event of Thanksgiving in 1972, B.B. King played what he would call his best ever live performance years later when he reminisced upon his spectacular show at New York’s maximum-security Sing Sing prison, an event that saw King show the true power of music by introducing the blues to prisoners.

                                                                    Guess Who

"There was a riot at Sing Sing prison but it was a riot of music, emotion, enthusiasm and good feelings. What a day. What a concert!"
                                          Jerry Oster, New York Daily News

 

 

BB King & Bobby "Blue"Bland - live at SoulTrain (1975)

 Soul Train was a fantastic show, although the majority of the acts lipsynced to their records. There were exceptions (James Brown for one)
and these two legendary performers were just that. Each is playing live with a backing band.

                         It's My Own Fault (with Bobby Blue Bland)

 Robert Calvin "Bobby" Bland (January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), né Brooks, also known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer.
Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. He was described as "among the great storytellers of blues and soul music... [who] created tempestuous arias of love, betrayal and resignation, set against roiling, dramatic orchestrations, and left the listener drained but awed."He was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues" and as the "Sinatra of the Blues"; his music was also influenced by Nat King Cole.^[4]
Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described him as "second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene". (Wikipedia)

                        The Thrill Is Gone

 "The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. Hawkins' recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951.^[1] In 1970, "The Thrill Is Gone" became a major hit for B.B. King. Subsequently, many blues and other artists have recorded their interpretations of the song.


B.B. King (born Riley B. King; September 16, 1925) is an American blues musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

BB King - All Over Again (feat.Eugene Carrier – keyboards)

                              Molde Jazz Festival,Idrettens Hus, Molde, Norway 23 July 1985

                 B.B. King - guitar, vocals, Leon Warren - guitar,James Bolden - trumpet
                 Edgar Synigal, Jr. - tenor saxophone ,   Eugene Carrier – keyboards                            
                 Russel Jackson - bass ,   Tony Coleman - drums

                               Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015),   R.I.P   
                                                                                                                                                                              

BB King - I’ve Got Some Outside Help I Don’t Need (live at the Sing Sing 1972)

"I was told that some of you dudes don't know anything about blues," King said as he began his performance. "That's what they told me. So I wanna say this to you: I came to swap some with you. I imagine that quite a few of you dudes have the blues already." Scott Meslow

 
BB King - I've Got Some Outside Help I Don't Need (live at the Sing Sing 1972) from Aart van Hoften on Vimeo.

 "There was a riot at Sing Sing prison but it was a riot of music, emotion, enthusiasm and good feelings. What a day. What a concert!"
Jerry Oster, New York Daily News

BB King - I Believe To My Soul - Live in Africa 1974

                                  B.B. King Live In Africa ‘74
B.B. stands onstage before Muhammad Ali and a crowd of 80,000 on the continent his ancestors left in chains and gives one of the most thrilling performances of his life. “The King of the Blues” (B.B.), “Soul Brother #1” (James Brown) and other African-American artists on the bill reveled in the return to their cultural motherland for a gala affair that was attended by fans and journalists from all over the world. The backstory around this perfonnance is rich

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 BB King - I Believe To My Soul - Live in Africa 1974

 Behind B.B. is a large orchestra, made up of core members ofB.B.’s touring band - pianist Ron Levy, drummer Sonny Freeman and saxophonist Bobby Forte - plus studio musicians recruited (mostly) from New York, including renowned session guitarist Larry Carlton. Directed by Hampton Reese, B.B.’s longtime friend and musical tutor (you’ll see him in his plaid sport coat conducting the band), this collection of musicians achieved their amazing performance after a single rehearsal in Kinshasa. Hampton wrote the charts for all the songs in the set, and every musician was playing from those charts. Of the musicians who played that concert from B.B.’s 1974 touring band, only Ron Levy is still living.

BB King - La Taverne De L'Olympia, Paris, Fr.(1971-11-27)

Riley Ben King[1] (Itta Bena (Mississippi), 16 september 1925 – Las Vegas, 14 mei 2015), beter bekend als B.B. King

 
BB King - La Taverne De L'Olympia, Paris, Fr.(1971-11-27) from Aart van Hoften on Vimeo.

BB King,Suzan Tedeschi,Derek Trucks Live at The Royal Albert Hall (28-6-2011)