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It's ironic that female blues singers were first to establish successful recording careers, with Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and others in the early 1920s. They preceded their male counterparts like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton and later Robert Johnson. However, from around 1930 on it's difficult to note more than...

SLEEVE: VG+ MEDIA: NM YEAR: 1970 ORIGIN: US EXTRAS: O.G. Pressing Dizzy Gillespie's often overlooked Cornucopia stands out as one of his best projects. His confident attempts to engage non-jazz listeners on It's My Way (1969), The Melody Lingers On (1966), and Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1965) kept him relevant, while...