Jazz Articles about Willie Dixon

About Willie Dixon

Blues Deluxe

Emma Wilson and Terry Hanck: The Simplicity of The Blues

by Doug Collette
June 29, 2025

Paradoxical as it may sound, the simplicity of the blues may be the key to its malleability. On A Spoonful of Willie Dixon, British chanteuse Emma Wilson reaches for and grasps the fundamentals of the music in homage to Willie Dixon- -one of the genre's greatest composers. Meanwhile, the title of Terry Hanck's Grease To Gravy alludes to the alchemical nature of the essential components of the style when properly ignited. Each artist intuitively comprehends the coexistence of agony and ...

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Album Review

Willie Dixon: Wille Dixon's Big Three Boogie

by Joe Milazzo
December 1, 2001

What remains to be written about Willie Dixon? He will most likely never be known much for his bass playing, but rather because he was arguably the preeminent blues lyricist of the post-war era, an activist and agitator for the rights of musicians of the folk tradition, and the guiding spirit of one of this country's greatest independent record labels (Chess). In fact, Dixon's total understanding of music -- as a cultural entity, as an art-form, and as a business ...