Los Angeles based Janiva Magness received the 2009 Blues Music Award for B.B King Entertainer Of The Year (she is only the second woman to ever win this award, the other being Koko Taylor) as well as for Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year (she also won the 2006 and 2007 Blues Music Awards for Best Contemporary Female Artist Of The Year.
Billboard writes “Magness carves out a niche by singing the blues with maturity and sophistication."
A Powerful performance
Toshiko
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Toshiko Akiyoshi - Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi, 1954 Cover art by David Stone
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