Various Artists - Hey! Piano Man - Selected Boogie Woogie Sides Remastered [JSP box 4 CD] Жанр: boogie woogie Страна-производитель диска: UK Год издания: 2007 Издатель (лейбл): JSP Records Номер по каталогу: JSP7747 Аудиокодек: MP3 Тип рипа: tracks Битрейт аудио: 320 kbps Продолжительность: 5:04:36 Источник (релизер): blogspot, azzul Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: фронты Треклист:
Disc A
1. Jimmy' Stuff 2. The Fives 3. La Salle Street Breakdown 4. Two O'Clock Blues 5. Janie's Joys 6. Lean Bacon 7. Big Bear Train 8. Lucille's Lament 9. Beezum Blues 10. Yancey Limited 11. Rollin' The Stone 12. Steady Rock Blues 13. P.L.K. Special 14. South Side Stuff 15. Yancey's Getaway 16. How Long Blues 17. How Long Blues No. 2 18. Yancey Stomp 19. State Street Special 20. Tell 'Em About Me 21. Five O'Clock Blues 22. Slow And Easy 23. The Mellow Blues 24. Bear Trap Blues 25. Old Quaker Blues All tracks by Jimmy Yancey
Disc B
1. Honky Tonk Train Blues 2. Yancey Special 3. Celeste Blues 4. I'm In The Mood For Love 5. Mr. Freddie Blues 6. Honky Tonk Train Blues 7. Whistlin' Blues 8. Bear Cat Crawl 9. The Blues Part 1 10. The Blues Part 2 11. The Blues Part 3 12. The Blues Part 4 13. The Blues Part 5 14. Melancholy Blues 15. Solitude Blues 16. Twos And Fews 17. Nagasaki 18. Untitled Original 19. Messin' Around 20. Deep Fives 21. Blues De 'Lux' All tracks by Meade 'Lux' Lewis
Disc C
1. Dying Mother Blues 2. Fo' O'Clock Blues 3. Roll 'Em 4. Boo Woo 5. Home James 6. Shuggle Boogie 7. Lone Star Blues 8. Buss Robinson Blues 9. B&o Blues 10. How Long How Long 11. Climbin' And Screamin' 12. Buss Robinson Blues 13. Pete's Blues 14. Let 'Em Jump 15. Pete's Blues No. 2 16. Boogie Woogie 17. Vine Street Bustle 18. Some Day Blues 19. Holler Stomp 20. Barrelhouse Breakdown 21. Kansas City Farewell 22. You Don't Know My Mind Tracks 1-3, 6-16 Pete Johnson, tracks 4-5 Harry James & The Boogie Woogie Trio, tracks 17-22 The Pete Johnson Blues Trio
Disc D
1. Nagasaki 2. Boogie Woogie Stomp 3. Early Mornin' Blues 4. Mile-Or-Mo Bird Rag 5. Shout For Joy 6. Boogie Woogie Stomp 7. Chicago In Mind 8. Suitcase Blues 9. Boogie Woogie Blues 10. Untitled Ammons Original 11. Bass Goin' Crazy 12. Backwater Blues 13. Changes In Boogie Woogie 14. Easy Rider Blues 15. Woo Woo 16. Jesse 17. Weary Land Blues 18. Port Of Harlem Blues 19. Mighty Blues 20. Rocking The Blues Tracks 1-14 Albert Ammons, tracks 15-16 Harry James & The Boogie Woogie Trio, track 17 J.C. Higginbotham, tracks 18-20 Port Of Harlem Jazzmen
Review by arwulf arwulf
Each and every one of JSP's affordably priced four-CD sets is well worth pouncing on, and Hey! Piano Man is no exception. Released in 2005, this blues and boogie tetralogy focuses upon the early recordings of Jimmy Yancey, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Pete Johnson, and Albert Ammons, using records cut during the years 1935-1940. This incredibly satisfying set illuminates the interwoven influences that made their music into a sturdy launching pad for the national boogie-woogie craze of the late ‘30s and early ‘40s. Yancey, whose modes sometimes reveal a clear lineage leading back to New Orleans and Caribbean influences, employed a wonderfully personal, introspective approach to his music, and the importance of an entire disc filled with this man's piano solos cannot be overemphasized. Lewis, a seemingly inexhaustible font of ideas and improvisatory variables, is well-represented here, although one of the highlights of the entire set (located on Lewis' disc) is the nearly six-minute piano duo version of "Nagasaki", which is mainly a showcase for Ammons' joyously explosive attacks upon the upper octaves of the instrument. Ammons and Johnson were both superb jazz players with formidable stride piano chops. One of the grievous failures in all of recorded jazz was the industry's failure to line up either or both of them with Fats Waller, but that seems never to have happened. Four masterful sides by Albert Ammons & His Rhythm Kings reveal him at his very best; these recordings, made in 1936, combine trumpet and sax with a rhythm section that included bassist Israel Crosby and guitarist Ike Perkins. Ammons is heard solo, with trombonist J.C. Higginbotham's Quintet; with trumpeter Frankie Newton and the Port of Harlem Jazzmen; and with trumpeter Harry James & His Boogie Woogie Trio. Pete Johnson is also featured with the Harry James unit, with his own Blues Trio, and as a soloist. The rarest material is positioned at the opening of Johnson's part of the set; three Library of Congress recordings made on Christmas Eve 1938 consist of a smart reading of "Roll ‘Em," a sobering "Dying Mother Blues" sung by Ammons, no less, and a severely battered "Fo' O'Clock Blues," which is so scratchy and uneven that some may object to its inclusion here. Given the fact that this is a rare example of Pete Johnson speaking at length while manipulating the keyboard, someone ought to invest in the technological processing necessary for a complete remastering of this extremely rare yet difficult to navigate recording. This is not the first time it has been made available to the public. Document brought it out on a collection awhile back, warts and all. The fact that the folks at JSP inserted it in this collection "as is" may come as a surprise to those who are accustomed to this label's often miraculous restoration of ancient and considerably weathered pressings. If Rounder was able to rescue and remaster the complete Library of Congress recordings of Jelly Roll Morton, there's no reason on earth that computer science could not be used to salvage this tantalizing blend of language and blues piano by the one and only Pete Johnson.
Всё та же благословенная троица - Boogie Woogie Boys - Meade 'Lux' Lewis, Pete Johnson и Albert Ammons плюс 25 треков от Jimmy Yancey, вот что я сегодня предлагаю вашему вниманию... Бокс давно есть в компе - я всё надеялся достать lossless - да, видать, не судьба... Приятного прослушивания! МОИ РАЗДАЧИ
