Jazz Articles about John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker: John Lee Hooker: Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1949-1952

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 15, 2020

Sam Phillips of Sun Records fame had an ear for musicians who stood out. He liked artists who were different, and he recognized the earth-shaking potential of John Lee Hooker's “Boogie Chillen,'" an early blueprint, it could be argued, for the rock 'n' roll sound pioneered by Sun. Phillips didn't get the chance to bring Hooker to Sun, but instead he found another unique blues personality to record, Howlin' Wolf, and the rest is history. Blues history ...

John Lee Hooker: The Modern, Chess & Vee-Jay Singles And Collection 1949-1962

by Maurizio Comandini
April 27, 2017

Questo cofanetto contiene 4 CD e un bel libretto con un saggio di Paul Watts e informazioni molto dettagliate sui 101 brani contenuti nei dischetti argentati. Sono i pezzi registrati in quel decennio abbondante che va dal 1949 al 1962 dal mitico bluesman John Lee Hooker e pubblicati dalle etichette Modern, Chess e Vee-Jay. Una collezione imperdibile per apprezzare al meglio le radici di un blues viscerale e puro che poi avrà enorme influenza nello sviluppo della musica giovanile delle ...

John Lee Hooker: Live at Sugar Hill, Volume 2

by Derek Taylor
December 4, 2002

What gives a man justification to sing the blues? There have never been a staid set of credentials for such a pursuit, but if any one man had the proper pedigree custom plugged into his persona, it was John Lee Hooker. His voice could sway from gravel-grained bark to plaintive croon amidst lyrics of the most hard-bitten sort; and his fretwork often took flight on the simplest of one-chord wingspans that were among the most non-idiomatic in field. He was ...

John Lee Hooker: Live At Newport

by Derek W. Brown
April 18, 2002

From his first R & B hit, 1948's “Boogie Chillun," a hypnotic one-chord ostinato, John Lee Hooker would forever be known as King Of The Boogie. Although he was accompanied in the studio by an occasional piano, harmonica or Eddie Kirkland's empathetic second guitar, John Lee Hooker's improvisatory style and lack of apparent structural sense marked him as a solo artist in the most literal sense (unlike Muddy Waters, another native of the Mississippi Delta).

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