All-Star Blues Jam

We guitarists love to jam, and blues royalty is no different, so we’ve conjured up an All-Star jam session featuring five superstars of the blues and beyond. This feature brings you an in-depth look at the soloing style of five of the greatest bluesy guitarist of all time: BB King, Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck, all legends in their own right and hopefully needing no introduction.

While it’s clear that each of these players has his own unique and highly individual musical personality (Clapton and Beck both in and out of the pure blues idiom), it’s good to observe the huge amount of crossover in terms of note selection, shared expressive devices, common rhythmic devices and phrasing considerations. They’re definitely all communicating in the same stylistic language, with a shared vocabulary of musical ideas but with enough differences in technical approach, tone, dynamic delivery, touch