In December 1957 at Beltone Studios in New York, Nina Simone cut My Baby Just Cares for Me for Bethlehem with Jimmy Bond and Albert “Tootie” Heath; the track closed Little Girl Blue (1959) and returned as a UK Top 5 hit in 1987 after
On 29 August 1970 Miles Davis took an electric Bitches Brew band to the Isle of Wight and played one unbroken set later titled Call It Anything.
Dexter Gordon plays Dale Turner in Tavernier's 1986 jazz film: Paris clubs, a spare room, and solos treated as drama.
In November 1964 B.B. King recorded Live at the Regal in Chicago, a set later treated as a model for electric blues showmanship.
In 1969, Miles Davis rejects the electric instruments waiting in Columbia's studio and sends modern jazz down a different road.
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood (Epic, 1983) takes Larry Davis’s 1958 blues and a loud Strat, cut in three days at Jackson Browne’s studio.
At Annie's Room in Soho, June 1965, Nina Simone's left hand pushes back under the voice.
Canned Heat’s 1968 Liberty single Going Up The Country reworks Henry Thomas’s 1920s flute blues into an AM escape song later tied to Woodstock.
An NBC television experiment films Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit in 1939, and forbidden copies carry the image beyond New York.
In 1968, the year Martin Luther King was murdered and Nina Simone answered with Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) and the live album 'Nuff Said!, she speaks about Black identity, responsibility, and the cost of being needed.
