| [2011-11-02]
Clarence
'Gatemouth' Brown: "Essential Blues"
"The
R&B charts didn't reflect Brown's importance (he
hit only once nationwide with 1949's two-sided smash
"Mary Is Fine"/"My
Time Is Expensive"). But his blazing instrumentals
("Boogie Uproar", "Gate
Walks to Board", 1954's seminal "Okie
Dokie Stomp"), horn-enriched rockers ("She
Walked Right In", "Rock My
Blues Away"), and lowdown Lone Star blues
("Dirty Work at the Crossroads")
are a major component of the rich Texas postwar blues
legacy. Brown broke new ground often -- even in the
'50s, he insisted on sawing his fiddle at live performances,
although Robey wasn't interested in capturing Gate's
violin talent until "Just Before Dawn" (his
final Peacock platter in 1959). " ~ www.allmusic.com |
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Kenny
Burrell: "Midnight Blue"
"One
of the leading exponents of straight-ahead jazz guitar,
Kenny Burrell is a highly influential artist whose understated
and melodic style, grounded in bebop and blues, made him
in an in-demand sideman from the mid-'50s onward and a
standard by which many jazz guitarists gauge themselves
to this day." ~ www.allmusic.com
"This album ["Midnight Blue"] is one of
guitarist Kenny Burrell's best-known sessions for the
Blue Note label. Burrell is matched with tenor saxophonist
Stanley Turrentine, bassist Major Holley, drummer Bill
English, and Ray Barretto on conga for a blues-oriented
date highlighted by "Chitlins Con Carne," "Midnight
Blue," "Saturday Night Blues," and the
lone standard "Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You."
~ www.allmusic.com |
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