#Jump Blues

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Joe Turner - Boogie Woogie Country Girl (1956) (Joe Turner and Orchestra featuring Van "Piano Man" Walls) Doc Pomus / Reginald Ashby from: "Corrine Corrina" / "Boogie Woogie Country Girl"

Jump Blues / Boogie-Woogie / R&B

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Personnel: Big Joe Turner: Vocals Van "Piano Man" Walls: Piano Frank Heywood Henry: Saxophone Wilbur de Paris: Trombone Connie Kay: Drums

Produced by Ahmet Ertegun / Jerry Wexler

Recorded: @ The Coastal Recording Studio in New York City, New York USA on November 3, 1955

Released: March, 1956 Atlantic Records

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Happy birthday to the late Lemmy Kilmister, who would've turned 77 today

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Rock bands that are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place at the end of April. The only representative of rock music among the 2024 nominees is Ozzy Osbourne, for whom we will be rooting furiously. However, the rest of the nominees are far from rock'n'roll, which every year causes discontent among fans.

In the cards, we remembered the brightest rockers who have already entered the Hall

Crazy Train" on xylophones is what we all need on the weekend!

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American blues singer Roy Brown

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"Hot Lips" Page and His Orchestra - The Blues Jumped the Rabbit (1944) Oran Thaddeus "Hot Lips" Page (AKA "Pappa" Snow White) from: "The Blues Jumped the Rabbit" / "My Gal is Gone" (Single) (78 RPM 10" Shellac) Nothing But the Blues Series: Blind John Davis / Hot Lips Page: The Blues Jumped the Rabbit (CD) (1994 2 Disc Remastered Compilation | CD 2)

Blues | Jump Blues | Boogie-Woogie | Jazz

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Personnel: "Hot Lips" Page: Vocals / Trumpet Ace Harris: Piano Lem Johnson: Tenor Saxophone Eli "Lucky" Thompson: Tenor Saxophone John Simmons: Bass Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett: Drums

Recorded: in New York City, New York USA on March 08, 1944

Single Released: in 1947

Commodore Records

Founded by Milt Gabler in 1938, Commodore Records was one of the first record companies whose principal motivation was a deep love for the music and a desire to celebrate jazz and its players. - Discogs

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Swing October

Hello October, friends, and readers! I wish you good October vibes and best October wishes! Every new month and new season marks a new beginning for some. With the summer of 2022 behind us, we need October to refresh our energy for the final year end push.

Motivate yourself and those around you in your everyday interactions. Remember that there is no deadline for starting over.

The song of the moment belongs to American group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, with contemporary swing track "Cruel Spell". The band's name was created after the time when lead vocalist, musician, and founder Scotty Morris met the late master blues guitar legend Albert Collins at one of the latter's concerts. Albert signed a poster for him 'To Scotty, the big bad voodoo daddy'!

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Lecture 2: Jump blues master and early rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Wynonie Harris (1915-1969), from Omaha, Nebraska, performs his jump blues hit “Lovin’ Machine” from 1951 (recorded July 2, 1951). The song shot up into Billboard’s Juke Box Chart the following year, on January 5, 1952, another hit for Harris, who would – sadly – pass away in 1969 before he lived to witness himself becoming an elder statesman of Rock ‘n’ Roll. “Lovin’ Machine” proved to be one of his most successful later hits, and displays a lot of characteristics of rock ‘n’ roll music. 

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Today's compilation:

Atlantic Honkers: A Rhythm & Blues Saxophone Anthology 1986 Jazz / Blues / R&B / Jump Blues / Rock & Roll

I feel like something that people aren't always so cognizant of is just how integral the saxophone was to the growth and spread of rock & roll. Nowadays it's an exception for a rock band to have a saxophonist among its ranks, but in rock & roll's infancy, when it was still firmly rooted in, and hybridized with, rhythm & blues, the sax and the guitar were more or less duking it out over which instrument would go on to define its sound. And clearly, the guitar ended up winning that battle.

Now, this comp here, which presents an authentic and wonderful documentation of some of the Atlantic label's greatest sax performances throughout its long and fabled history, is not really much of a rock & roll comp in and of itself, but what you really have to understand here is that the way in which the saxophone was deployed on a lot of these tracks was not very well-respected by many music critics at the time. Much like the use of guitar in rock & roll, the saxophone in this regard—especially the tenor sax—was largely viewed as this loud, disruptive, undignified racket that was not very pleasing to ears that liked to consider themselves more tastefully refined. And for those very same reasons, that's probably why the instrument seemed to be such a natural fit for rock & roll in the first place. 

So here's an excellent collection of tunes that really center that saxophone, with a showcase of some of Atlantic's truly greatest honkers. All of these are of some sort of historic import, and the release largely spans from jazz and blues to R&B, but there's a few tunes that could still be credibly considered as rock too, including the totally dynamite closing cover of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," by the terrific King Curtis, which reached #64 on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 1971. It seems like with this comp, Atlantic only sought to provide tracks in which the saxophonist was credited as the lead artist, and that's probably why we don't see two of Curtis' most eminent contributions to the American songbook, with his appearances on The Coasters' "Yakety Yak" and Aretha Franklin's "Respect," but if you've never heard his take on that classic Led Zeppelin song before, you're definitely in for something pretty damn marvelous 😍. And "Memphis Soul Stew" is a classic too. 

But King Curtis was well-known and regarded as one of the greatest saxophonists in the history of popular music already, so his inclusion on this comp is a total no-brainer. It's some of the less remembered Atlantic-signed cats who preceded him that really make this thing shine brightly, like Willis "Gator" Jackson.

Willis "Gator" Jackson's not a household name, and besides a long discography of albums that starts in 1959, you won't find more than a handful of short paragraphs about him on Wikipedia either. But long before his debut LP, Jackson and his orchestra turned in a terrifically raucous, jazzy jump blues single on Atlantic in 1952 called "Gator's Groove," which featured his forcefulness in front of a barnburning crowd of organ, bass, other horns, and drums, and if the man ever became known for a single song, it was undoubtedly this one. And he and his orchestra's preceding single, "Rock! Rock! Rock!," which didn't receive nearly the same amount of fanfare, is in much the same vein too, and appears on this album as well.

So there's a celebration here of some of the greatest saxophonists to ever release material on Atlantic, which for decades had proven itself as a top-ranked label for black music of different types. And some of these tunes had never appeared on LP before either, so in addition to this being an excellent retrospective sax showcase, it also made some songs that hadn't been so easy to find in the pre-internet days of 1986 a whole lot more accessible too. Evidently, there's a very good history lesson to be had in this record, and at the time of its release, it came with some added value as well.

Highlights:

Frank Culley - "Gone After Hours" Willis "Gator" Jackson - "Gator's Groove" Willis "Gator" Jackson - "Rock! Rock! Rock!" Willis "Gator" Jackson - "Wine-O-Wine" Arnett Cobb - "Flying Home Mambo" King Curtis - "Jest Smoochin'" King Curtis - "Castle Rock" King Curtis - "Honeydripper, Pt. 2" King Curtis - "Long Tall Sally" King Curtis - "Memphis Soul Stew" King Curtis - "8th Wonder" King Curtis - "Whole Lotta Love"

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023 8pm ET: Feature LP: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Americana Deluxe (1998)

Americana Deluxe is the second studio album by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, released February 24, 1998. This album is also sometimes called Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, as the album cover prominently displays a stylized “Big Bad Voodoo Daddy” logo and does not feature the phrase “Americana Deluxe” on it. However, the liner notes and the band’s website clearly show that the title is Americana Deluxe. “The…

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Smiley Lewis - Bumpity Bump (1955) Dave Bartholomew "I Hear You Knocking" / "Bumpity Bump"

Jump Blues | New Orleans R&B

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Personnel: Smiley Lewis: Vocals The Dave Bartholomew's Band

Produced by Dave Bartholomew

Recorded: @ The J&M Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana USA on May 23, 1955

Released: July, 1955 Imperial Records

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Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums feat. Ms. Carmen Getit at the late Club Deluxe, photo by Dennis Hearne

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you know what is a hightly underappreciated music genre?

jump blues

like, yall can have the swift and whatnot, but just listen to Please Mr Jailer by Wynona Carr and tell me it's not amazing

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