What will I be listening to?
Your box will include three albums from our current collection of six albums:
The Best of Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
Blue Train
John Coltrane
The Queen of Soul
Aretha Franklin
Further Definitions
Benny Carter & His Orchestra
Sonny Rollins - On Impulse!
Sonny Rollins
Hollywood Africans
Jon Baptiste
What's in the box?
Exclusive Art Cards
Partnering with the EMI Archive Trust, we will send you two beautiful art cards, depicting moments from music history.
Hand-picked Albums
All our albums are rated 4-5* by fans around the world. Our expert music curators add the human curation to ensure we bring you awesome collections
Sleeve notes
In collaboration with Universal Music’s uDiscover team we have produced beautiful sleeve notes for each collection, offering stories into some of music’s most fascinating movements, artists and albums.
About this collection
Introducing The Joy of Blues and Jazz
Beginning as a form of African American folk music, the blues was born in America's Mississippi Delta region in the 19th century. Its popularity spread across the US and the world and paved the way for the likes of rock, pop, soul and of course, jazz. Through blues’ bassy grooves and jazz’s improvisational swing, the two have stood the test of time and laid the foundations for much of the music we know and love today..png?v=0)
Curator
Daryl Easlea
Daryl is a writer, DJ and A&R consultant whose words have appeared in Record Collector, Mojo, Prog, the Guardian and Uncut. His books include Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco and Without Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel. He is the co-editor and contributor to The Supreme Record Company: The Story of Decca Records 1929-2019.