V.A. - Juke Joint Jump: A Boogie Woogie Celebration [Recorded 1931-1961] (1996)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 210 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 117 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Boogie-Woogie, Jump Blues, Piano Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia/Legacy (CK 64988)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 210 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 117 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Boogie-Woogie, Jump Blues, Piano Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia/Legacy (CK 64988)
While some purists would like to compartmentalize boogie woogie into a nice, neat box as strictly a form of piano blues, this 18 track collection clearly demonstrates that the form lends itself to a wide variety of treatments. Tracks like "Baby Boogie Woogie" by country picker Curley Weaver, "Boogie Woogie" by Delta Cum. Detroit bluesman Calvin Frazier and jazz visionary Art Tatum's "Tatum Pole Boogie" do much to support that claim, as does the inclusion of tracks from Red Saunders, Adrian Rollini and Harry James. Much of the material reprised here comes from one of the very first Columbia 78 RPM 'albums, ' a collection of boogie woogie classics produced by John Hammond, the man who brought the music into national vogue in the late 30s by simply letting giants like Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson and Big Joe Turner do their thing…