Ivory Joe Hunter - Since I Met You Baby: The '50s CollectionPianist, singer and songwriter Ivory Joe Hunter was a blues balladeer extraordinaire, specialising in a unique brand of highly tuneful and soulful blues songs that bucked the trend for more raucous and extrovert blues in the 1940s and early '50s, although he could rock and boogie with the best of them as well. Born in Texas in 1914 "Ivory Joe" were his given names and not a nickname he made his first recordings as a talented youngster for the Library

George Frideric Handel worked together for the first time with the librettist Charles Jennens

Johnny Mercer

great R&B vocalists and jazz orchestras jostle for position with rock 'n' rollers Like Elvis

but they are linked: Arthur plays guitar on most of the Al King sides

They were pioneers in writing and recording folk and country music for the commercial market

Aaron Avshalomov

to Japan and the Vatican

with his orchestra

Simeon Henry

It's a highly enlightening introduction to Schifrin's early years on the US jazz scene

he dedicates himself to the "Golden Age" of the cornett - the period between 1580 and 1630 in Northern Italy

in that they were the first two that he ever released