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The undisputed Queen of Chicago Blues, vocalist Koko Taylor, has quite an entourage on her ROYAL BLUE outing. Kenny Wayne Shepherd 's guitar shimmers like a mirage on Taylor's gritty-as-the-Sahara cover of Melissa Etheridge 's "Bring Me Some Water." B.B. King plays lead guitar and shares vocals with the Queen for the shoutin' party at the "Blues Hotel." Johnnie Johnson , the St. Louis piano legend who has recorded with artists as diverse as Chuck Berry and the Kentucky Headhunters , turns the ivories...

The oldest of the four musical Marsalis brothers, Branford Marsalis has had an impressive career. After studying at Southern University and Berklee, Branford toured Europe with the Art Blakey big band in the summer of 1980 (playing baritone), played three months with Clark Terry, and then spent five months playing alto with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1981). He mostly played tenor and soprano while with Wynton Marsalis' influential group (1982-1985), at first sounding most influenced by Wayne Shorter...