B.B. KING
One More Time Tour
Special Guest: Susan Tedeschi

16 July 2009 19:30

Papp László Budapest Sportarena

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Throughout the 1990's as well as the 1980's, 1970's, 1960's and 1950's, there has been only one King of the Blues - Riley B. King, affectionately known as B.B. King.  Since B.B. started recording in the late 1940's, he has released over 50 albums many of them considered blues classics, like 1965's definitive live blues album "Live At The Regal", and 1976's collaboration with Bobby "Blue" Bland, "Together For The First Time".

Over the years, B.B. has had two number one R & B hits, 1951's "Three O'Clock Blues", and 1952's "You Don't Know Me", and four number two R & B hits, 1953's "Please Love Me", and 1954's "You Upset Me Baby", 1960's "Sweet Sixteen, Part I", and 1966's "Don't Answer The Door, Part I".  B.B.'s most popular crossover hit, 1970's "The Thrill Is Gone" went to #15 pop.

But B.B. King, as well as the entire blues genre, is not radio oriented.  His classic songs such as "Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss", "Caldonia", " How Blue Can You Get", "Everyday I Have The Blues", and "Why I Sing The Blues", are concert (and fan) staples.

BBLivehires.jpgRiley B. King was born on September 16, 1925, on a cotton plantation in Itta Bene, Mississippi, just outside the Mississippi delta town of Indianola.  He used to play on the corner of Church and Second Street for dimes and would sometimes play in as many as four towns on a Saturday night.  With his guitar and $2.50, he hitchhiked north to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1947 to pursue his musical career.  Memphis was the city where every important musician of the South gravitated and which supported a large, competitive musical community where virtually every black musical style was heard.  B.B. stayed with his cousin Bukka White, one of the most renowned rural blues performers of his time, who schooled B.B. further in the art of the blues.

B.B.'s first big break came in 1948 when he performed on Sonny Boy Williamson's radio program on KWEM out of West Memphis.  This led to steady performance engagements at the Sixteenth Avenue Grill in West Memphis and later to a ten minute spot on black staffed and managed radio station WDIA.  "King's Spot", sponsored by Pepticon, a health tonic, became so popular that it was increased in length and became the "Sepia Swing Club".  Soon, B.B. needed a catchy radio name.  What started out as Beale Street Blues Boy was shortened to Blues Boy King, and eventually B.B. King.  Incidentally, King's middle initial "B" is just that, it is not an abbreviation.

In the mid-1950's while B.B. was performing at a dance in Twist, Arkansas, a few fans became unruly.  Two men got into a fight and knocked over a kerosene stove, setting fire to the hall.  B.B. raced outdoors to safety with everyone else, but then realized that he left his $30 guitar inside, so he rushed back inside to retrieve it, narrowly escaping death.  When he later found out that the fight had been over a woman named Lucille, he decided to give the name to his guitar.  Each one of B.B.'s guitars since that time have been called Lucille.

Soon after his number one hit, "Three O'Clock Blues", B.B. began touring nationally, and he has never stopped, performing an average of 275 concerts a year.  in 1956 B.B. and his band played an astonishing 342 one night stands.  From the chitlin circuit with its small town cafes, ghetto theaters, country dance halls, and roadside joints to jazz clubs, rock palaces, symphony concert halls, college concerts, resort hotels and prestigious concert halls nationally and internationally, B.B. has become the most renowned blues musician of the past 40 years.

B.B.'s technique is nonetheless complex, featuring delicate filigrees of single string runs punctuated by loud chords, subtle vibratos, and "bent" notes.  The technique of rock guitar playing is to a large degree derived from B.B.'s playing.

In the army, B.B. was introduced to the music of such guitarists as Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker.  "I heard an electric guitar that wasn't playing spiritual", recalls B.B.  "It was T-Bone Walker doing "Stormy Monday", and that was the prettiest sound I think I ever heard in my life.  That's what really started me to play the blues".

BB_King_hires.jpgOver the years, B.B. has developed one of the world's most readily identified guitar styles.  He borrowed from Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others,  integrating his precise vocal like string bends and his left hand vibrato, both of which have become indispensable components of rock guitarist's vocabulary.  His economy, his every note counts phrasing, has been a model for thousands of players including Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Jeff Beck.

B.B. has mixed traditional blues, jazz, swing, mainstream pop and jump into a unique sound.  His singing is richly melodic, both vocally and in the "singing" that comes from his guitar.  In B.B's words, "When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille".

"I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper, I still work on it.  Red, white, black, brown, yellow, rich, poor, we all have the blues".

"From my own experience, I would say to all people but maybe to young people especially black, white or whatever color, follow your own feelings and trust them; find out what you want to do and do it and then practice it every day of your life and keep becoming what you are despite any hardships and obstacles you meet".

"I'm me,"  B.B. told Time Magazine in 1969, "blues is what I do best.  If Frank Sinatra can be the best in his field, Nat King Cole in his, Bach and Beethoven in theirs, why can't I be great, and known for it, in blues?"

Sidney A. Seidenberg, B.B.'s former manager, likens B.B. to Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra.  "B.B.'s goals have always been to be like an American Ambassador of blues music to the world, like Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra are to the jazz world.  B.B. is still the King of the Blues".

In 1967, B.B. performed at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival, a portion of which was later aired over PBS TV.  in 1968, B.B. played at the Newport Folk Festival and at Bill Graham's Fillmore West on bills with the hottest contemporary rock artists of the day who idolized King and helped cross him over to a young white audience.

B.B. has influenced Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Freddie King, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Rush, Johnny Winter, Albert King and many others while being influenced by Charles Brown, Lowell Fulsom, Elmore James, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jimmy Rushing, T-Bone Walker, Bukka White and others.

In 1969, B.B. was chosen by the Rolling Stones to open 18 American concerts for them;  Ike and Tina Turner also played on 18 shows.  B.B. also made the first of his numerous appearances on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show".  In 1970, B.B. premiered in Las Vegas at Caesar's Palace and at the Royal Box in the American Hotel in New York City as well as on the "Ed Sullivan Show".

In the early 1970's, B.B. toured Ghana, Lagos, Chad and Liberia under the auspices of the United States State Department.  Besides playing the major jazz festivals around the world.


bbking.jpgIn 1989, King toured Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France, West Germany, Holland and Ireland for three months as a special guest of U2.  King is featured in "When Love Comes To Town" on U2's album "Rattle and Hum".  Starting in 1992, King has headlined the Blues Music Festival of American amphitheaters with three support acts.

On February 23, 1990 PBS started televising "All Day & All Night: Memories From Beale Street Musicians", which featured B.B. King and captured the lifestyles of musicians who performed on Beale Street (Memphis, TN) from the 1920's to the 1950's when being on Beale Street was like "living in paradise".  King recalled on the half-hour special that Beale Street was "a place to learn, to make friends.  It was a little world all of your own.  There were always musicians who were willing to help you if you wanted to learn".  And King and Rufus Thomas recalled Amateur Night at the Palace Theatre where "anyone who could carry a tune got a dollar for going on stage".

In 1990, King and Ray Charles co-headlined the Philip Morris Superband five continent world tour.  The final concert was recorded and "Live At The Apollo" became King's first big band album.  In 1991, King headlined the Philip Morris Superband International Tour again with Diane Reeves featured.  And in 1991 King participated in the all-star Guitar Legends concert in Seville, Spain, where practically every guitar hero performed.

In 1990 King Received the Songwriter's Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1991 the Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from Gibson Guitar Company.  In 1989, King's imprint was added to the Amsterdam, Holland Walk of Fame and in 1991 to the Hollywood Walk of Fame (between Milton Berle and Vivian Leigh).  In 1973, King received the B'nai Brith Humanitarian Award from the Music and Performance Lodge of New York.

In 1990, King received the prestigious Presidential Medal of the Arts in Washington, D.C. with President Bush presiding.  In 1991, King received the National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts.  In 1995, King received the Kennedy Center Honors.

Over the years, B.B. has been bestowed eight Grammy Awards by his peers:  Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Male in 1970 for "The Thrill Is Gone", Best Ethnic or Traditional recording in 1981 for "There Must Be A Better World Somewhere", and Best Traditional Blues Recording in 1983 for "Blues 'N Jazz" and in 1985 for "My Guitar Sings The Blues" from "Six Silver Strings".  In 1970, King's "Indianola Mississippi Seeds" won for Best Album Cover, an art director's award.  In 1989 King received two more nominations:  Best Contemporary Blues Recording "King Of The Blues 1989", and Best Rock Performance by a duo or group with vocal for "When Love Comes To Town" with U2 from U2's "Rattle And Hum".  In 1990 King received another Grammy for the album "Live At San Quentin" as Best Traditional Blues Recording.  In 1991, King was bestowed Best Traditional Blues Recording for "Live At The Apollo" and in 1993 the same award for "Blues Summit".  And in 1996, along with Eric Clapton, Jimmie Vaughn, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Dr. John and Art Neville, King received the Best Rock Instrumental Performance for "SRV Shuffle" from A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan.

B.B. King was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, where Sting of the Police made the induction speech.  B.B. was the recipient of the 1986 National Association For Campus Activities Hall of Fame Award.  B.B. was Blues Act of the Year in 1985, 1987, and 1988 Performance Award Polls.  He is a founding member of the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center.  B.B. King received the Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award" in December of 1987 at the first televised awards in May 1990.  He won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Blues Foundation in 1997.   B.B. Has received four honorary doctorates:  Tougaloo (Mississippi) College (L.H.D.) in 1973; Yale University (D. Music) in 1977;  Berklee College of Music (D. Music) in 1982;  and Rhodes College of Memphis (D. Fine Arts) in 1990.  In 1992 he received the National Award of Distinction from the University of Mississippi.

On May 3, 1991, "B.B. King's Blues Club" opened in Memphis, and also at the Universal City Walk in Los Angeles in 1994, and although King resides in Las Vegas, he plans to play at his clubs at least four times a year.  A B.B. King Blues Club will open in New York's Times Square's E-Walk in early 2000.

In 1996, the CD ROM "On The Road With B.B. King:  An Interactive Autobiography" was released to rave reviews including an "A-" in Entertainment Weekly.  Also in 1996, B.B. King's autobiography "Blues All Around Me"  (written with David Ritz) (Avon) was published and won second prize in the prestigious Eighth Annual Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Awards.  The biography "The Arrival of B.B. King" by Charles Sawyer was published in 1980 by Doubleday.

In November 1997, MCA released B.B. King's album Deuces Wild with B.B. in tandem with 13 legendary artists.  The lineup included Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Joe Cocker, Tracy Chapman, Mick Hucknall (Simply Red), Dr. John, Marty Stewart, D'Angelo, David Gilmore & Paul Carrick and Heavy D.  Deuces Wild became B.B. King's second gold album.

In 1999, B.B. King released Let the Good Times Roll, his tribute to Louis Jordan.  "Louis Jordan was a great musician," says King, "and in my opinion, was way ahead of his time.  As people get to know him, they will realize what a great contribution he left to the music of today."


December 2006

 
B.B. KING ADDENDUM OF AWARDS & APPEARANCES

HONORARY DOCTORATES

2007    Brown University (Providence) (D. Music)
2001   Mississippi Valley State (Greenville) (D. Music)                                                                                   1990    Rhodes College (Memphis) (D. Fine Arts)
1982    Berklee College of Music (Boston) (D. Music)
1977    Yale University (D. Music)
1973    Tougaloo College (Mississippi) (L.H.D)

GOLD RECORDS

1998    Best of B.B. King (released 1973)
1998    Deuces Wild (released 1997)

PLATINUM RECORDS

2000   Deuces Wild (released 1997)
2000    Riding With The King (B.B. King with Eric Clapton, released 2000)
1997    Best of B.B. King (released 1973)

HONORARIUM
2006    Presidential Medal of Freedom
2004   Polar Music Award – presented by King & Queen of Sweden
2004   Golden Plate Achievement Award – presented by Mayor of Chicago
1995    Kennedy Center Honors
1991    National Award of Distinction - University of Mississippi
1991    National Heritage Fellowship - National Endowment of the Arts
1990    Presidential Medal of the Arts, presented by President George Bush
Founding Member, John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center
Co-founder, Foundation for the Advancement of Inmate Recreation and Rehabilitation (F.A.I.R.R.)



W.C. HANDY AWARDS (Blues Foundation)
2004   Blues Entertainer of the Year – B.B. King
2003    Blues Entertainer of the Year – B.B. King
2002   Blues Entertainer of the Year – B.B. King

2001   Blues Band of the Year – B.B.  King
2001   Blues Entertainer of the Year – B.B. King
2000    Blues Entertainer of the Year - B.B. King
1999    Blues Entertainer of the Year - B.B. King
1999    Contemporary Blues Album of the Year - Blues on the Bayou
1998   Blues Band of the Year – B.B. King Orchestra
1998   Blues Entertainer of the Year – B.B. King
1997   Blues Band of the Year – B.B. King Orchestra
1997   Re-Issue Blues Album of the Year – “How Blue Can You Get: Classic Blues”
1997   Blues Entertainer of the Year – B.B. King
1996   Blues Entertainer of the Year – B.B. King
1995   Blues Entertainer of the Year – B.B. King
1994   Contemporary Blues Album of the Year –“ Blues Summit” B.B. King   
1991    Blues Band of the Year - The B.B. King Orchestra
1988    Keeping the Blues Alive (Radio) - The B.B. King Radio Hour
1987    Keeping the Blues Alive (Radio) - The B.B. King Blues Hour
1985    Hall of Fame Classics of Blues Recordings (Single Recording, Including Album Tracks)
1983    Hall of Fame Classics of Blues Recordings (Albums) - Live at the Regal "The Thrill Is Gone"
1980   Hall of Fame Inductees – B.B. King   


MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS

1988/89    Best Video From a Film, "When Love Comes To Town" from Rattle & Hum, U2 With B.B. King




NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES
2000    New York Heroes Award

N.A.A.C.P. IMAGE AWARDS


1999    Image Awards Hall of Fame
1993    Best Blues Artists
1981    Best Blues Artist
1975    Best Blues Artist


NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK OWNED BROADCASTERS (NABOB)

1997    Pioneer in Music Award

TRUMPET AWARDS (TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEM)

1997    Living Legend Award

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CAMPUS ACTIVITIES AWARDS

1986    Blues Act of the Year
NATRA GOLDEN MIKE AWARD

1974    Best Blues Singer of the Year
1969    Best Blues Singer of the Year
FRENCH ACADEMIE du JAZZ AWARD

1969    Best Album of the Year, Lucille




GRAMMY AWARDS


2005    Best Traditional Blues Album “80”
2002   Best Pop Instrumental “Auld Lang Syne”
2002   Best Traditional Blues Album “A Christmas Celebration of Hope”
2000    Best Pop Collaboration “Is You Is, or Is You Ain’t (My Baby)”  (with Dr. John)
2000    Best Traditional Blues Recording, Riding With the King  (with Eric Clapton)
1999    Best Traditional Blues Recording, Blues on the Bayou
1996    Best Rock Instrumental Performance, "SRV Shuffle" (with Eric Clapton, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray, Bonnie      Raitt, Buddy     Guy, Dr. John and Art Neville) from A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan
1993    Best Traditional Blues Recording, Blues Summit
1991    Best Traditional Blues Recording, Live at the Apollo
1990    Best Traditional Blues Recording, Live at San Quentin
1985    Best Traditional Blues Recording, “My Guitar Sings the Blues”, a track from Six Silver Strings
1983    Best Traditional Blues Recording, Blues & Jazz
1981    Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording, There Must Be A Better World Somewhere
1970    Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Male, "The Thrill Is Gone"

B.B. King has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards through 2000.  In 1970, King's Indianola Mississippi Seeds won a Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, an art director's award.  1969's "The Thrill Is Gone" was installed in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.

HALLS OF FAME

1999    N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards Hall of Fame
1995    Performance Magazine touring Hall of Fame
1987    Rock & and Roll Hall of Fame
1980    Blues Foundation Hall of Fame

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

2001    Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
1998    MOBO Awards (London) Lifetime Achievement Award
1997    The Blues Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award
1991    The Orville H. Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award (Gibson Guitar)
1990    Songwriters' Hall of Fame, Lifetime Achievement Award
1987    Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award

HUMANITARIAN AWARDS

1973    B'Nai Brith Humanitarian Award, Music and Performance Lodge of New York




WALKS OF FAME

1991    Hollywood Walk of Fame (Between Milton Berle and Vivian Leigh)
1989    Amsterdam (Holland) Walk of Fame
1989    Rock Walk

DOWNBEAT


1999    Blues Artist of the Year (International Critics Poll)
1999    Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1997    Blues Artist of the Year (International Critics Poll)
1996    Blues Artist of the Year (International Critics Guide)
1996    Blues/Soul/Rhythm and Blues Group (Readers Poll)
1995    Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1994    Blues Album of the Year (Blues Summit) (International Critics Poll)
1994    Blues Artist of the Year (International Critics Poll)
1994    Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1994    Blues/Soul/R & B Album of the Year (Blues Summit) (Readers Poll)
1994    Blues/Soul/R & B Musician of the Year (Readers Poll)
1994    Blues/Soul/R & B Group of the Year (Readers Poll)
1993    Blues Artist of the Year (International Critics Poll)
1993    Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1993    Blues/Soul/R & B Musician of the Year (Readers Poll)
1993    Blues/Soul/R & B Group (Readers Poll)
1992    Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1992    Blues Artist of the Year (International Critics Poll)
1991    Blues Artist of the Year (International Critics Poll)
1991    Blues/Soul/R & B Musician of the Year (Readers Poll)
1990    Blues/Soul/R & B Musician of the Year (Readers Poll)
1975    Best Rock/Pop/Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1974    Best Rock/Pop/Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1973    Best Rock/Pop/Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1972    Best Rock/Pop/Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1971    Best Rock/Pop/Blues Group (International Critics Poll)
1970    Best Rock/Pop/Blues Group (International Critics Poll)

EBONY

1975    Best Blues Album, To Know You Is To Love You
1975    Best Blues Instrumentalist
1975    Best Male Blues Singer
1974    Best Blues Album, Live at the Regal
1974    Best Blues Instrumentalist
1974    Best Male Blues Singer
1974    Blues Hall of Fame

ORVILLE M. GIBSON GUITAR AWARD

1997    Best Blues Guitarist - Male
1996    Best Blues Guitarist - Male

LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE READER'S AWARDS

1997    Most Outstanding Blues Singer
1996    Most Outstanding Blues Singer
1994    Most Outstanding Blues Singer
1993    Most Outstanding Blues Singer

LIVING BLUES MAGAZINE CRITIC'S POLL

1996    Most Outstanding Blues Singer (Tied with Little Milton)
1994    Blues Artist of the Year
1993    Best Cover Art Photo (B.B. King of the Blues)


GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE (RETIRED AFTER 5 WINS)

1974    Blues Guitarist of the Year
1973    Blues Guitarist of the Year
1972    Blues Guitarist of the Year
1971    Blues Guitarist of the Year
1970    Blues Guitarist of the Year

PERFORMANCE MAGAZINE READERS POLL
1988    Blues Act of the Year
1987    Blues Act of the Year
1985    Blues Act of the Year

MELODY MAKER

1973    Best Blues Artist of the Year (World Section)

BLUES UNLIMITED

1973    Best Blues Guitarist



JAZZ & POP

1968    Best Male Jazz Singer of the Year

TV APPEARANCES

Sanford & Son
The Cosby Show
Married With Children
Teech
Blossom
General Hospital
Baywatch Nights
New York Undercover
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
CNN's Pinnacle
Young & Restless
Sesame Street



FILM APPEARANCES


IMAX - All Access
Blues Brothers 2000
Shake, Rattle & Roll
When We Were Kings
Heart & Souls
The Bluesman
Run of Hearts
Spies Like Us
TV COMMERCIALS


XM Satellite Radio
Lifescan - One Touch
Northwest Airlines
Wendy's
M & M's
Greyhound
Texaco



RADIO COMMERCIALS

Toys R Us
Budweiser
Sears

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS

B.B. King Blues Master I
B.B. King Blues Master II
B.B. King Blues Master III
Country and Blues Harmonica for the Absolute Beginner''


AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1996    Blues All Around Me by B.B. King with David Ritz (Avon)

BIOGRAPHY

1980    The Arrival of B.B. King: the Authorized Biography by Charles Sawyer (Doubleday)





VIDEOGRAPHY
Live By Request (2003)
Pavarotti & Friends (1999)
A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (1997)
An Evening With B.B. King – BET Jazz Channel
B.B. King and Friends - A Night of Red Hot Blues
Blues Summit Concert (1995)
Live at Nicks (1983)
Live at the Apollo (1992)
Live from Atlantic City (1990)
Live in Africa
Bluesmasters - The Essential History of the Blues, Vol. 2
Bluesland
International Blues Festival (1975)
James Brown and His Very Special Guest B.B. King (1983)
Rhythm Country & Blues
Yackety Yack, Take It Back



BLUES MUSIC FESTIVAL TOURS

1992    B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Dr. John and the Fabulous Thunderbirds
1993    B.B. King, Eric Johnson, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells/Lonnie Brooks/Koko Taylor
1994    B.B. King, Little Feat, Dr. John and Tribute to Muddy Waters
1995    B.B. King, Jimmie Vaughn, Etta James and Blues Time (J. Geils, Magic Dick, Elvin Bishop)
1996    B.B. King, The Neville Brothers, Delbert McClinton, Taj Mahal, Kenny Wayne Sheppard
1997    B.B. King, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Tower of Power, Blues Time (J. Geils, Magic Dick), Jonny Lang
1998    B.B. King, Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Storyville, Susan Tedeschi
1999    B.B. King, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Tower of Power, Indigenous, J. Geils, Jimmie Vaughan, Robert Cray
2000    B. B. King, Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Tommy  Castro, Corey Harris
2001    B.B. King, Buddy Guy, John Hiatt, Tommy Castro
2002   B.B. King, Susan Tedeschi, Fabulous Thunderbirds
2003   B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Galactic, Mofro
2004   B.B. King, Dr. John, Shemekia Copeland, Elvin Bishop, J. Geils, Magic Dick, Muddy Waters Band, Edgar Winter
SPECIAL APPEARANCES
2001   Special Olympics at the White House
2001    A Family Celebration
2000    National Memorial Day Concert on the West Lawn of the White House (PBS)
1999    Free New Years Eve Millenium Concert Beale Street, Memphis
1999    Liberty Bowl Half Time Performance (Memphis)
1999    Concert of the Century at the White House (VH1)
1999    Blues In Performance at the White House (PBS-TV)
1999    Pavorotti & Friends Benefit for War Child
1998    Named Official Ambassador of Music at the World Expo '98 in Lisbon, Portugal
1997    Vatican Christmas Concert
1996    B.B. King Performs at Closing Ceremonies of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA
1996    B.B. King Entertains U.S. Military Troops in Bosnia


B.B. KING WITH VARIOUS ARTISTS

Genius Loves Company (2004)  Ray Charles Duet
Deuces Wild (1997)
A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (1997)
Blues Classics (1996)
Rock of Ages: Gibson Guitar Greats (1995)
Living the Blues Masters (1995)
Till the Night is Gone: A Tribute to Doc Pomus (1995)
All Men Are Brothers: Tribute to Curtis Mayfield (1994)
Rhythm Country & Blues (1994)
GRP Christmas Collection Vol. III (1993)
The Simpsons Sing the Blues (1990)

B.B. KING DUET ALBUMS

B.B. King & Eric Clapton Riding With The King (2000)
Diane Schuur & B.B. King Heart to Heart (1994)
B.B. King & Bobby Bland Together For the First Time...Live (1974)
Bobby Bland & B.B. King Together Again...Live (1976)

SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS

Shake, Rattle & Roll (1999)
Blues Brothers 2000 (2000)
When We Were Kings (1997)
Casino (1995)
Air America (1990)
Into the Night (1985)
Stormy Monday (1988)

CHILDREN'S MUSIC

John Henry (1994)
Rainy Day Blues (1993)

RALPH J. GLEASON MUSIC BOOK AWARDS

1996    Second Prize for Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King by B.B. King and David Ritz

B.B. KING BLUES CLUBS & RESTAURANTS

1991    Beale Street, Memphis, TN
1994    Universal City Walk, Hollywood, CA
2000    42nd Street, New York City
2002   Foxwoods Casino, Mashantucket, Ct.
2003   Nashville, Tn.
2007    Orlando, Fl.
2004   Detroit Airport
    June 2008

 

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Debrecen - Főnix Hall
14 February 2010
 


ABBA - THE SHOW
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
13 February 2010
 


CHRIS REA
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
04 February 2010
 


COTTON CLUB SINGERS
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
09 Janury 2010
 

Events organized in 2009:


TÁTRAI BAND
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
18 December 2009
 


AIR
Petőfi Hall
13 December 2009
 


HOBO
Millenáris Fogadó
05 December 2009
 


EROS RAMAZZOTTI
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
03 November 2009
 


ZZ TOP
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
15 October 2009
 


LEONARD COHEN
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
31 August 2009
 


GEORGE BENSON
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
22 July 2009
 


B.B. KING
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
16 July 2009
 


DREAM THEATER
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
01 July 2009
 


SIMPLY RED
Hero's Square
27 June 2009
 


TARJA
Petőfi Hall
20 June 2009
 


SENSATION
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
16 May 2009
 


PINK
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
24 March 2009
 


ABBA - THE SHOW
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
10-10 February 2009
 


DIANA: A CELEBRATION - The Exhibition
Károlyi-Csekonics Residence
31-31 Janury 2009
 


GHYMES
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
10 Janury 2009
 

Events organized in 2008:

HARLEM GOSPEL SINGERS
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
14 December 2008
 

HOBO BLUES BAND
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
27 September 2008
 

SNOOP DOGG
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
10 September 2008
 

PAUL ANKA
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
05 August 2008
 

SEAL
SYMA hall "A"
15 July 2008
 

SANTANA
Hero's Square
28 June 2008
 

VAYA CON DIOS
Margaret Island Open Air
08 June 2008
 

SENSATION
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
03 May 2008
 

FEDDE LE GRAND
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
03 May 2008
 

MAURO PICOTTO
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
03 May 2008
 

PAUL OAKENFOLD
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
03 May 2008
 

SANDER KLEINENBERG
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
03 May 2008
 

SEBASTIAN INGROSSO
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
03 May 2008
 

CARMEN
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
23 April 2008
 

STOMP
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
01-06 April 2008
 

CHRIS REA
Papp László Budapest Sportarena
03 March 2008