Time: 74:44
Size: 171.1 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues, R&B
Year: 1958/2009
Art: Front
[2:41] 1. Spoon Calls Hootie
[2:29] 2. Bar Fly Blues
[3:03] 3. Roll On Katy
[2:53] 4. Please Stop Playing Those Blues, Boy
[2:39] 5. Gone With The Blues
[2:56] 6. In The Evening
[5:57] 7. Ain't Nobody's Business
[2:57] 8. Christmas Bells
[3:06] 9. Backwater Blues
[2:30] 10. Sweet Lovin' Baby
[2:09] 11. Doctor Knows His Business
[2:43] 12. Good Jumping
[2:39] 13. Love My Baby
[2:23] 14. I'm Just A Lady's Man
[2:38] 15. Thelma Lee Blues
[2:15] 16. Baby Baby
[2:23] 17. Geneva Blues Aka Evil Woman
[2:59] 18. I'm Just A Country Boy
[2:54] 19. There Ain't Nothing Better
[3:07] 20. Love And Friendship
[2:57] 21. Slow Your Speed
[2:42] 22. Rain, Rain, Rain
[2:45] 23. Frog-I-More
[2:46] 24. Cain River Blues
[2:48] 25. The Duke And The Brute
[3:13] 26. When I've Been Drinking
This 1958 LP was just a random — and short — roundup of ten tracks from 1949-1951 singles Jimmy Witherspoon had done for Modern. With four national R&B hits, it does supply a fragmentary overview of Witherspoon's early career, in which he — like so many R&B singers — was purveying a brand of West Coast blues that could both swing and croon. It's not up there with the singer's best recordings, as it doesn't have the most forceful of the jazz-blues fusions he'd make. It's respectable early R&B, however, with a bunch of sides recorded in concert with a spontaneous rawness unusual even by the standards of this earlier, more rudimentary era. "Jump Children" (aka "Good Jumpin'") is a pretty transparent imitation of "Good Rockin' Tonight," however. The CD reissue on Ace adds a lot of value, tacking on eight bonus tracks from other 1948-1951 singles.
The great veteran pianist Jay McShann (also known as Hootie) enjoyed a long career and it is unfair to primarily think of him as merely the leader of an orchestra that featured a young Charlie Parker. He was mostly self-taught as a pianist, worked with Don Byas as early as 1931 and played throughout the Midwest before settling in Kansas City in 1936.
The great veteran pianist Jay McShann (also known as Hootie) enjoyed a long career and it is unfair to primarily think of him as merely the leader of an orchestra that featured a young Charlie Parker. He was mostly self-taught as a pianist, worked with Don Byas as early as 1931 and played throughout the Midwest before settling in Kansas City in 1936.
Jay McShann Meets J. Witherspoon
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