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Tab Benoit: These Blues Are All Mine
by Ed Kopp
Tab Benoit is a passionate axeman and full-throated singer. His sixth release shows the full extent of the Louisiana native's considerable talent.Recorded live to analog in a '50s-era Houston studio, These Blues offers uncompromising guitar-propelled blues. The music here is occasionally reminiscent of the two Alberts, King and Collins, and includes tracks made famous ...
Jimmy Rushing: Every Day
by Mark Corroto
Singer Jimmy Rushing was often call “Mr. five-by-five.” The name described his height and width. Rushing, who gained fame singing for Count Basie’s band from 1935 to 1950, often sang from the middle of the stage obscuring the view of half the saxophone section. The recordings culled here are from three mid-fifties sessions for Vanguard Records, ...
Otis Spann: Best of the Vanguard Years
by Ed Kopp
Nowhere are Otis Spann’s piano skills better showcased than on this CD’s first five tracks, lifted from the classic 1969 album Chicago/The Blues/Today! Volume 1. These cuts feature Spann in a spare format with drummer S.P. Leary as his only backing, and they contain some of the most accomplished blues piano ever recorded. The rest of ...
Various Artists/John Hammond, Producer: From Spirituals to Swing Volumes 1, 2, & 3
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz as Live Performance. When one thinks of the best live jazz recordings, certainly several come to mind: Sonny Rollins at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note), John Coltrane—Complete Village Vanguard Sessions (Impulse), The Miles Davis Quintet at the Plugged Nickel (Columbia), Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall (Columbia). The sheer beauty of Jazz practice is that ...
Various Artists/John Hammond, Producer: From Spirituals to Swing Volumes 1, 2, & 3
by C. Michael Bailey
Jazz as Live Performance. When one thinks of the best live jazz recordings, certainly several come to mind: Sonny Rollins at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note), John Coltrane—Complete Village Vanguard Sessions (Impulse), The Miles Davis Quintet at the Plugged Nickel (Columbia), Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall (Columbia). The sheer beauty of Jazz practice is that ...
The Essential Vic Dickenson
Label: Vanguard Records
Released: 1977
Track listing: Russian Lullaby; Keeping Out Of Mischief Now; Sir Charles At Home; Jeepers Creepers; I Cover The Waterfront; Runnin' Wild; When You And I Were Young, Maggie; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Old Fashioned Love; Everybody Loves My Baby; Suspension Blues; You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me.
