Jump Blues recommendations

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I want to hear more jump blues - one of those streams that lead directly to rock'n'roll but wasn't quite rock in the 40s. Anyone have some recommended compilations?

Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 1 October 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link

not certain if he's jump blues exactly, maybe one step between jump blues and r'n'r, but i've been playing wynonie harris like crazy lately.

arby's, Monday, 1 October 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link

far from an expert, but i think Louis Jordan is kinda the kingpin of this stuff?

farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 October 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link

louis jordan is the first name i i see come up after 'jump blues', that seems right.

ooh ooh, billy wright.
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/51851943/Billy+Wright+billywright55.jpg

arby's, Monday, 1 October 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFq31i0XuBE

gesange der yuengling (crüt), Monday, 1 October 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

xpo:\
hairsplit maybe but Louis J. is straight up r'n'b

making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link

I'm not good with labels of styles, but I love this 8cd comp;

Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Story 1945-1955 [Box Set]

nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 6 October 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link

Wynonie Harris!

Big Eyed Bean, Sunday, 7 October 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link

There's a terrific 5CD Louis Jordan box that's available for dirt cheap and well worth picking up.

誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 7 October 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link

nine years pass...

Seeing via musician/author Daryl Davis’s public post on Facebook that sax player and Annapolis, MD barber Del Puschert who played with Elvis Presley, the Coasters, Jackie Wilson, George Strait and later with Davis has passed at 89. Davis calls him the “last of the great honkers “ referring to that 40s & 50s era of squawking jump blues horn players

curmudgeon, Friday, 29 July 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link


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