Nina Simone – A piano that would not kneel
The piano at Annie's Room in Soho, June 1965, does not accompany Nina Simone so much as argue with her.
The Regal 1964 – B.B. King
On 21 November 1964, at the Regal Theater in Chicago, B.B. King recorded the live album that still teaches every blues band how a room is supposed to answer.
Isle of Wight 1970 – Miles Davis
On 29 August 1970 Miles Davis took an electric band to the Isle of Wight and played one unbroken set, later circulated under the title he allowed: Call It Anything.
Round Midnight
Dale Turner speaks slowly, as if the next sentence had to walk across a room before it could be said.
Going Up The Country – Canned Heat
Like a wind through a broken window, the flute flutters; just below, the engine starts, steady, dusty, boiling
Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan
The opening notes descend like a purposeful and ominous torrential downpour.