The R&B Years 1949

Ray Charles

Ella Fitzgerald

Dinah Washington

Hal Singer

Billy Wright

Johnny Otis

Ruth Brown

Jimmy Liggins

Charles Brown

Louis Jordan

Earl Bostic

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Jay McShann

Jimmy Witherspoon

Edgar Hayes

T-Bone Walker

Todd Rhodes

Lucky Millinder

Wynonie Harris

Big Joe Turner

Bumps Myers

Julia Lee

Sugar Chile Robinson

Cecil Gant

Johnny Moore's Three Blazers

Dave Bartholomew

Joe Thomas

Stick McGhee

Walter Brown

Roy Milton

Roy Brown

Amos Milburn

June Richmond

Pee Wee Crayton

Memphis Slim

Ivory Joe Hunter

T. J. Fowler

Big Jay McNeely

Freddie Mitchell

Eddie Mack

Mabel Scott

Joe Lutcher

Sonny Thompson

Ella Johnson

Johnny Otis And His Orchestra

Andy Kirk And His Orchestra

The Ravens

The Orioles

King Perry

William "Wild Bill" Moore

Piney Brown

Kansas City Jimmy

Max Bailey

Bull Moose Jackson

Floyd Dixon

Paul Williams

Buddy Johnson

Don Johnson

Roy Hawkins

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

Saunders King

Little Willie Littlefield

Bob Call

Cousin Joe

Joe Morris

Eddie Williams

Russell Jacquet

Larry Darnell

Frank Culley

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

Chris Powell

Jimmy Preston

Marion Abernathy

Andrew Tibbs

Great Gates

The Five Scamps

Chicago Carl Davis

Billy Valentine

J. B. Summers

Goree Carter

King Porter

Baby Davis

Pete "Guitar" Lewis

Dee Williams Sextette

Buddy Banks