Time: 68:16
Size: 156.3 MB
Styles: Early R&B, Blues-jazz
Year: 2009
Art: Front
[3:14] 1. Hot Lips Page - Uncle Sam Blues
[3:01] 2. Pete Brown Quintet - Pete Brown's Boogie
[2:52] 3. Miss Rhapsody - Hey Lawdy Mama
[3:11] 4. The Toppers - If Money Grew On Trees
[2:59] 5. Big Joe Turner - S.K. Blues, Part 1
[2:57] 6. Big Joe Turner - S.K. Blues, Part 2
[3:02] 7. Albinia Jones - Evil Gal Blues
[2:51] 8. Gatemouth Moore - I Ain't Mad At You, Pretty Baby
[2:52] 9. Billy Eckstine - Prisoner Of Love
[3:06] 10. Johnny Otis - Harlem Nocturne
[3:12] 11. Slim Gaillard - Slim's Jam
[2:49] 12. Pete Johnson's All-Stars - Atomic Boogie
[3:08] 13. Cousin Joe - Weddin' Day Blues
[3:12] 14. Big Joe Turner - My Gal's A Jockey
[5:57] 15. Dusty Fletcher - Open The Door, Richard Parts 1 & 2
[2:22] 16. Tiny Bradshaw - Take The Hands Off The Clock
[3:03] 17. Johnny Otis - Midnight In The Barrel House
[2:58] 18. Benny Roberts Orchestra - Thriller Diller Poppa
[2:50] 19. The Ravens - Write Me A Letter
[3:11] 20. Paul Williams Sextet - Thirty Five Thirty
[2:39] 21. Doc Pomus - My Good Pott
[2:37] 22. Wild Bill Moore - We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll
This disc (1944-47) takes on the years when R&B had no name, but was rather an increasingly frenetic outgrowth of swing-band jump. There are refugees from Kansas City territory jazz bands, including Big Joe Turner on “S.K. Blues” and Gatemouth Moore with a killer vocal on “I Ain’t Mad At You, Pretty Baby”; boogie-woogie fad giants such as Pete Johnson; and bands recorded or picked up from the Central Avenue scene in Los Angeles, including Johnny Otis’ seminal after-hours instrumental “Harlem Nocturne”, the tune that launched a thousand detective-story soundtracks.
Most fascinating may be the numbers that combined zoot suit-era jive talk with honks and riffs — the aforementioned “Open The Door, Richard”, Slim Gaillard’s “Slim’s Jam”, etc. — which can certainly be seen now as hip-hop precursors. There’s a jumpin’ salute to a girlfriend with a suspiciously smoky name sung by future famed songwriter Doc Pomus — “My Good Pott”. And Hot Lips Page’s wartime lament that “Uncle Sam’s not a woman, but he sure can take your man” no doubt has some current relevance.
Most fascinating may be the numbers that combined zoot suit-era jive talk with honks and riffs — the aforementioned “Open The Door, Richard”, Slim Gaillard’s “Slim’s Jam”, etc. — which can certainly be seen now as hip-hop precursors. There’s a jumpin’ salute to a girlfriend with a suspiciously smoky name sung by future famed songwriter Doc Pomus — “My Good Pott”. And Hot Lips Page’s wartime lament that “Uncle Sam’s not a woman, but he sure can take your man” no doubt has some current relevance.
Stompin' At The Savoy: Harlem Nocturne 1944-47 mc
Stompin' At The Savoy: Harlem Nocturne 1944-47 zippy
