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BLUES & JAZZ
updated: 01/23/2006

BLUES & JAZZ

 

[NOTE: I’m now able to start expanding this section greatly; have decided to list everything by performers as listed on the discs themselves – collectors in these genre tend to look for separate tracks by their favorite artists, not necessarily specific albums; and compilations have been remixed, re-shuffled, re-labeled, so often down through the years that most interested clients, or so they’ve told me, would prefer to cherry-pick their CDs by individual tracks, which is a pain in the ass for me, but that’s OK, ‘cause I have the master CDs well organized. I’m starting off slowly, but I plan to add at least 15-20 items per month, so watch this space. If your favorite track by Blind Ethnic Pig-Iron or Hep-Kat Gazoondheit hasn’t shown up yet, sooner or later it will.]

 

BLUES

 

 

Texas ALEXANDER: Crossroads][

ANONYMOUS: Tom Moore’s Farm][

Buddy CHILES: Mistreated Blues][

Mercy DEE: Lonesome Cabin Blues][

Robert JOHNSON: (Items 1-16 recorded Nov., 1936):

Crossroads Blues][Terraplane Blues][Come On In My Kitchen][Walking Blues][Last Fair Deal Gone Down][32-20 Blues][Kindhearted Woman Blues][If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day][Preaching Blues][When You Got A Good Friend][Rambling on my Mind][Stones in my Passway][Traveling Riverside Blues][Milkcow’s Calk Blues][Me & the Devil Blues][Hell-hound on my Tail]

John HOGG: Black Snake Blues][

" " : West Texas Blues][

Smokey HOGG: Penitentiary Blues (Parts 1 & 2][

Lightning HOPKINS: Late in the Evening][

Frankie Lee SIMMS: Lucy Mae Blues][

" " : I’m Long, Long Gone][

L.C. WILLIAMS: Trying, Trying][

" " " : Hole in the Wall][

 

 

 

 

 

JOHN ABERCROMBIE: Characters. Abercrombie playing electric, acoustic guitars & electric mandolin; all compositions his own, total time: 45:38] [playing: fabulous; recorded sound: breathtaking]

BLAKEY, Art:

"RITUAL" – Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. [It was 1958 and there was exactly one, count ‘em, ONE "jazz/beatnick/ poetry reading coffee shop in all of Charlotte, North Carolina and this is the kind of jazz the owner, Richard Stavrakis, liked to play. It sounded cool enough to us, as we sat there trying to look cool in our ill-fitting sunglasses, waiting for the next open-mike poetry-reading session to start. Talk about day-trippers! Rumors abounded concerning the stuff that went down after the under-legal-age wanna-bes went home, but ol’ Richard was cool; he never confirmed or denied anything and to their credit, our parents continued to let us hang out there long after the first police raid. To this day, I associate the sound of West Coast laid-back chamber-music jazz with mellow summer nights up at the coffee house (and a few later with some not so laid back memories of steamy couplings on the funky rolled-up mattresses in the storerooms. So my opinion of this album admittedly IS tinctured by nostalgia. So sue me. Blakey’s sidemen for this LP were: Jackie McClean, tenor sax; Bill Hardimann, trumpet;Sam Dockery, piano; Spanky DeBrest, bass; and of course, Blakey all over the percussion. The record’s only in fair shape, but it’s listenable.

 

 

ELLINGTON, Duke:

"IN A MELLOTONE" (Source: UK 12" pressing; v.g. condition. This collection features cuts recorded in NY, Chicago & Hollywood, circa 1940-1942. Band members include some stellar names: Wallace Jones & Cootie Williams (trumpets), Rex Stewart (cornet), Barney Bigard (tenor sax), Fred Guy (guitar), Jimmy Blanton (bass), Sonny Greer (drums). Cuts:

"Take the ‘A’ Train" (Chicago, 5/4/40)

"Portrait of Bert Williams" (Chicago, May 28, 1940)

"Main Stream" (Hollywood, 6/26/42)

"Just a-Settin and a-Rockin’" (NYC, 7/22/40)

"I Got it Bad, and That Ain’t Good" (Chicago, 9/5/40))

"Perdido" (NYC, 10/17/40)

"Blue Serge" (Chicago, 12/28/40)

"The Flaming Sword" (Hollywood, 6/5/41)

Also: "In a Mellotone", "Cotton Tail", "I Don’t know what Kind of Blues I Got", "Rumpus in Richmond", "All Too Soon", "Sepia Panorama", "Rocks in My Bed", "What Am I Here For?"

JAZZ -- SINGLE CUTS

Albert AMMONS (piano): St. Louis Blues][

COUNT BASIE’s Kansas City Seven: Lester Leaps In][

" " " " " : Dickie’s Dream][

Blind BLAKE (guitar & talking-part): Hastings Street][

Big Bill BROONZEY (guitar): Brown Skin Gal (w/ LOFTON)][

John COLTRANE:

Jim JACKSON: Jamboree (w/ Tampa Red; Georgia Tom; Speckled Red)][

Pete JACKSON (piano): Let ‘Em Stomp][

JONES-SMITH, Inc: Boogie Woogie][

Andy KIRK & His Mighty Clouds of Joy: Froggy Bottom][

Meade Lux LEWIS (piano): Honky Tonk Train][

Cripple Clarence LOFTON (piano): Brown Skin Gal (w/ BROONZEY)][

Jay McSHAWN & His Orchestra: Hootie Blues][

Charles MINGUS: Hog Callin’ Blues, 7:26 (w/ Roland Kirk, flute & tenor sax; Booker Ervin, tenor sax; Jimmy Knepper, trombone; Dough Watkins, bass; Dannie Richmond, drums)][Devil Woman, 9:38 (same band as previous cut)][Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma’am, 4:41 (same band band as previous cut)][Ecclusiastics,. 6:55 (same band as previous cut)][Oh, Lord, Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me!, 5:39 (same band as previous cut)][Eat That Chicken, 4:36 (same band as previous cut)][Passions of a Man, 4:32 (Same band as previous cut)]

Benny MOTEN’s Kansas City Orchestra: Toby][

Charlie PARKER (sax): Ko-Ko, 2:29][Move, 4:33][Theme, 2:05][‘Round Midnite, 5:04][Groovin’ High, 3:35][Cool Blues, 4:34][Ornithology, 7:36][Ornithology, alternate take, 4:15][White Christmas, 4:04][Hot House, 4:11][Ornithology; (sidemen: Fats Navarro; Bud Powell; Tommy Potter; Roy Porter) rec. May, 1950 @ Café Society)][Be Bop (rec. Hollywood, July 26; sidemen: Howard McGhee; Jimmy Bunn; Dingbod Kesterton; Roy Porter)][Charlie’s Wig; rec. in New York, 12/17/1947; (sidemen: Miles Davis; J.J.Johnston; Duke Jordan; Tommy Potter; Max Roach)] [Max is Making Wax; rec. Hollywood, July 1946; (sidemen: Howard McGhee; Jimmy Bunn; Dingbod Kesterson; Roy Porter][Klactoveededstene; rec. New York, Nov. 4, 1946][Lover Man; rec. Hollywood, July 1949; (sidemen: Howard McGhee; Jimmy Bunn; Dingbod Kesterton; Roy Porter)][Carvin’ the Bird; rec. Hollywood, Dec., 1947; (sidemen: Howard McGhee; Wardell Gray; Dodo Marmarosa; Barney Kessel; Red Callender; Don Lammond)][Stupendous; rec. Hollywood, Feb. 26, 1947; (sidemen: Howard McGhee; Wardell Gray; Dodo Marmarosa; Barney Kessel; Red Callender; Don Lamond)][Quasimodo; rec. NYC, Dec. 17, 1947; (sidemen: Miles Davis; J.J. Johnson; Duke Jordan; Tommy Potter; Max Roach}][ Yardbird Suite; rec. Hollywood, March 28, 1946; (sidemen: Miles Davis; Lucky Thompson; Dodo Marmarosa; Arvin Garrison; Victor McMillan; Duke Jordan; Roy Potter)]

Speckled RED: (See "Jim Jackson’s Jamboree")][

Tampa RED: " " " "][

Charlie SPAND (piano): Hastings Street][

Georgia TOM: (See "Jim Jackson’s Jamboree")][

Jimmy YANCEY (piano): Yancey Stomp][