Roosevelt Sykes - Blues & Boogie: Later Years 1950-1957 AEC Video Drama Desk and Outer Critics

Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations

With this commissioned composition

Clarinet music by Zemlinsky's contemporaries

balancing spacious sound-staging against sumptuous saturation

Roosevelt Sykes - Blues & Boogie: Later Years 1950-1957 AEC Video Drama Desk and Outer CriticsPianist Roosevelt Sykes was a true star of both the pre and post war eras of rhythm & blues and there's little disagreement that Sykes was one of the most influential and pioneering of urban blues piano players in the genre's history. This collection from Jasmine looks at the recordings he made between 1950 and 1957 and represent the last tracks he made for blues and r&b market in America. Shortly after this period he became an international