Can anyone give me a list of old blues and jazz artists or songs?

Question

I'd like to listen to stuff like that
It sounds pretty cool

Sorry about the list part
It could just be one artist

I mean like 1940's ,1930's possibly earlier than that

Answer 1

BLUES ARTISTS - Muddy Waters, BB King, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eric Clapton, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Roy Buchanan, Jimmy Johnson, Janis Joplin, (early) Savoy Brown, Otis Spann, Little Walter, Johnny Winter
BLUES CDs
1. Muddy Waters & Friends - Fathers & Sons
2. The Allman Brothers Band - Live At The Fillmore East
3. BB King - Live At The Regal
4. Roy Buchanan - Second Album
5. Mike Bloomfield - Essential Blues 1964-1969
BLUES SONGS - Stormy Monday Blues, Sweet Home Chicago, Dust My Broom, Drifting Blues, It Hurts Me Too, Its My Own Fault, Everyday I Have The Blues, The Sky Is Crying

JAZZ ARTISTS - Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Django Reinhart, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Benny Goodman, Billie Holliday, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Paul Desmond, Jaco Pastorious, Charlie Mingus
JAZZ CDs
1. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
2. The Crusaders - Chain Reaction
3. Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite
4. John Coltrane - Best Of
5. Chick Coreas Return To Forever - Light As A Feather
JAZZ SONGS - Duke Ellington - Take The A Train & In A Sentimental Mood, Billie Holliday - God Bless The Child, Dave Brubeck - Take Five, Chick Corea - Spain, Ella Fitzgerald - A Tisket A Tasket, John Coltrane - My Favorite Things & Naima, Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing, George Benson - Breezin, Count Basie - One O Clock Jump, Charlie Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Stan Getz - Girl From Ipanema, Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man, Art Blakey - Moanin, Django Reinhart - Nuages, Weather Report - Birdland, Cannonball Adderley - Work Song, Mercy Mercy, Miles Davis - So What, Pat Metheny - Last Train Home, Les Paul - How High The Moon, Dizzy Gillespie - Night In Tunisia, Charlie Parker - Scrapple From The Apple, Thelonious Monk - Round Midnight, T Bone Walker - Stormy Monday Blues, Manhattan Transfer - Birdland, Wes Montgomery - West Coast Blues

Answer 2

Eric Clapton
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Robert Johnson
Buddy Guy
BB King
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Johnnie Taylor
Etta James
Billie Holliday
Robert Cray
Taj Mahal
Paul Butterfield
Albert King
Howlin Wolf
Muddy Waters
Pigmeat Markham
Jimmy Reed
John Lee Hooker
Junior Parker
Little Walter
Louis Jordan
Elmore James
That will start you off!

Answer 3

Way too many to list all, but here are some good ones that I am sure you'll enjoy: First, some classic Motown: The Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson Who's Lovin' You - Smokey Robinson How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - Marvin Gaye Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder Superstition - Stevie Wonder We Can Work It Out (a great Beatles cover!) - Stevie Wonder Heaven Help Us All - Stevie Wonder Blowin' in the Wind (Dylan cover) - Stevie Wonder My Girl - The Temptations More jazz-skewed: Lilac Wine - Nina Simone (covered by Jeff Buckley) To Love Somebody - Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone I Put A Spell on You - Nina Simone How High the Moon - Ella Fitzgerald Oh, Lady be Good! - Ella Fitzgerald My Funny Valentine - Ella Fitzgerald I Loves You Porgy - Ella Fitzgerald Mack the Knife - Ella Fitzgerald For a funkier vibe, check out: Tower Of Power Bootsy Collins The Isley Brothers Parliament Maceo Parker Where funk meets jazz: Jimmy McGriff Gil Scott Heron

Answer 4

Depending on how old and any special stuff you want.
blues.. John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, John Mayall (many great guitarists were with John, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and I even think Jimmy Page was with him for a short time too.) Early blood Sweat & Tears had some Jazz and Blues mixed in their music, Al Kooper was the singer and Guitarist at that time, before they got David Clayton Thomas.

Jazz music.. wow, there's so many types of jazz, hard to know where to start. A few of the "older" ones would be, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, and if you wanna go to the swing era of jazz, Bennie Goodman, Glen Miller.
Newer Jazz, Hiroshima, Swing Out Sister, Sade.
Do a google search on jazz, it will probably come up with hundreds of thousands of hits.
good luck and enjoy.

Answer 5

Get on site called "Fat Possum", and look for Junior Kimbrough first. He's the papa of Foothill Blues.... He lived until about 1999. Start out listening to a few of his songs, from the "You better run", album, they let you check out for free. Another good album by Kimbrough is "Done got old".
Then also check out R.L. Burnside. That guy survived until about 2006. He also played some good Foothill blues.
There is also Louisiana Delta Blues and the includes CCR and Tony Joe White.
Not only your Mississippi Delta Blues, there are two other genres..

Answer 6

1930's-40's jazz eh? Sounds like its right up my alley. Heres a couple people here for you to listen to. Any of thier music is great:

Louis Armstrong
Thelonius Monk
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Ella Fitzgerald
Charlie Parker
Bud Powell
Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman
Billie Holiday

Thats a few for you. Don't wanna name them all. Theres alot of greats in there believe me.

Answer 7

There are many good suggestions here, but make sure you try:

Django Reinhardt.. One of a kind, and there is a certain "class" to his music that is hard to explain. It's been called "Gypsy Jazz", and he was the first and most prolific musician of his kind (despite not having full use of his hand!)

Answer 8

check out Rounder Record Group on the internet.

Answer 9

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