BB King Pocket

The biography of BB King by Jacques Périn , illustrated by Jean Michel Nicollet and accompanied by 1 compact disc.

No one today embodies the blues better than BB King . THE tractor driver from a plantation in Mississippi became disc jockey in Memphis before establishing itself as the largest singer And guitarist of blues (impossible to dissociate one from the other).

If he first knew how to touch his community, he achieved an incredible crossover at the end of the 1960s, first being recognized by the rock public, then by what we usually call the "great audience". And this recognition was acquired without the slightest compromise. As well as Louis Armstrong , Duke Ellington Or Ray Charles , BB King is one of the geniuses that African-American art has given us.