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~ Count Basie - Boogie Woogie (Decca Ver.)
Views: 1184 |  |  |  |  | Jimmy Rushing (vo), Count Basie (pf), Buck Clayton (tp), Ed Lewis (tp), Bobby Moore (tp), George Hunt (tb), Dan Minor (tb), Lester Young (ts), Herschel Evans (cl, ts), Caughey Roberts (as), Jack Washington(as), Freddie Green (g), Walter Page (b), Jo Jones ...More (ds) rec. March 26, 1937 |
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~ Shake, Rattle and Roll
Views: 2226 |  |  |  |  | Joseph Vernon Turner was born in Kansas City, MO on May 18, 1911. His singing career started in the boogie-woogie era of the late 1930's and spanned over four decades. Joe Turner's musical talent crossed over many boundrys melding R&B with big band swing ...More and blues with rock n' roll. Turner performed live and recorded with a multitude of legendary musicians such as jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington. Turner has also been given credit for helping create and shape the origins of rock n' roll. Big Joe Turner is possibly best remembered for his performances of "Shake, Rattle and Roll" written by C. Calhoun. In 1954 it became his top #1 hit record. The song was again made popular by Elvis Presley and Bill Haley and the Comets. Between 1951 and 1961 Joe Turner achieved tremendous success recording for Atlantic Records. Although his recording career continued until his death in 1985. Big Joe Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Bosses Of The Blues-Vol. 1 recorded August 18, 1969 in Los Angeles, CA. BMG/Bluebird, RCA Corporation CD 1989. |
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~ 45's - Teenage Letter - Joe Turner
Views: 1607 |  |  |  |  | Joseph Vernon Turner, 18 May 1911, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, d. 24 November 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA. Big Joe Turner (aka Big Vernon) began singing in local clubs in his early teens upon the death of his father, and at the age of 15 teamed up ...More with pianist Pete Johnson. Their professional relationship lasted on-and-off for over 40 years. During the late 20s and early 30s, Turner toured with several of Kansas Citys best black bands, including those led by George E. Lee, Bennie Moten, Andy Kirk and Count Basie. However, it was not until 1936 that he left his home ground and journeyed to New York City. Making little impression on his debut in New York, Turner, with Johnson, returned in 1938 to appear in John Hammond Jnr.s From Spirituals To Swing concerts and on Benny Goodmans Camel Caravan CBS radio show, and this time they were well received. Johnson teamed up with Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis as the Boogie Woogie Boys and sparked the boogie-woogie craze that subsequently swept the nation and the world. Turners early recordings depicted him as both a fine jazz singer and, perhaps more importantly, a hugely influential blues shouter. He appeared on top recording sessions by Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins and Joe Sullivan as well as his own extensive recording for Vocalion Records (1938-40) and Decca Records (1940-44), which featured accompaniment by artists such as Willie The Lion Smith, Art Tatum, Freddie Slack or Sammy Price, when Johnson, Ammons or Lewis ... |
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~ Frank "Sugarchile" Robinson - Caldonia
Views: 293549 |  |  |  |  | From movie "No Leave No Love" 1946 Frank "Sugarchile" Robinson SUGAR CHILE ROBINSON (By Dave Penny) Born Frank Robinson, 1940, Detroit, Michigan The history of 20th century entertainment is littered with child prodigies; from Shirley Temple in the 1930s, ...More Toni Harper in the 1940s and Frankie Lymon in the 1950s. On the whole, although precociously talented, child entertainers were usually saddled with inferior, childish material that, while perhaps cute at the time, were usually novelty acts that grew tiresome pretty quickly. Some couldn't handle the swift drop in popularity and turned to drink or drugs, while others retired gracefully and concentrated their energies in other directions. One such was that tiny bundle of Detroit dynamite, "Sugar Chile" Robinson. Born Frankie Robinson, the youngest of six children, in Detroit in 1940, "Sugar Chile" began pounding on the family piano as a toddler - he reputedly banged out a recognisable version of Erskine Hawkins' Tuxedo Junction at the age of two - and by 1945 he had been "discovered" by pianist and bandleader Frankie Carle. Within a year he was asked to play at a Whitehouse party for President Harry Truman, had guested with Lionel Hampton's Orchestra and even appeared performing the title song in the 1946 MGM romantic comedy film "No Leave, No Love". It was not until July 1949, however, that he made his first records for the Capitol label, when, in the consummate company of jazz veterans Leonard Bibbs on bass and drummer ... |
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~ Jimmy RUSHING " I Left My Baby " !!!
Views: 1697 |  |  |  |  | RARE OLDIES VIDEO WITH MR JIMMY RUSHING & COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA ! James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 - June 8, 1972) (known as Jimmy Rushing) was an American blues shouter and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured v ...More ocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. Rushing was known as "Mr. Five by Five" and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others. He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927, then joined Bennie Moten's band in 1929. He stayed with the successor Count Basie band when Moten died in 1935. Rushing was born into a family with musical talent and accomplishments. His father, Andrew Rushing, was a trumpeter and his mother and brother were singers. Rushing toured the Mid-West and California as an itinerant blues singer in 1923 and 1924 before moving to Los Angeles, California, where he sang with Jelly Roll Morton. Rushing sang with Billy King before moving on to Page's Blue Devils in 1927. He, along with other members of the Blue Devils, defected to the Bennie Moten band in 1929. Moten died in 1935, and Rushing joined Count Basie for what would be a 13-year vocation. Due to his tutelage under his mentor Moten, Rushing was a proponent of the Kansas City jump blues tradition, best evinced by his performances of "Sent For You Yesterday" and "Boogie Woogie" for the Count Basie Orchestra. After leaving Basie, his recording career soared, as a solo artist and a singer with ... |
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~ Lionel Hampton / Rhythm and Blues Revue
Views: 39063 |  |  |  |  | Outstanding performances abound in this musical variety show filmed at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, New York City in 1954. It features a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Faye Adams, Bil ...More l Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughan, Nipsey Russell, Big Joe Turner, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat 'King' Cole, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway and Ruth Brown. Presented in this clip is Hamp's rocking set. You can download the entire movie here www.archive.org MindsiMedia has a R&B playlist featuring a number of vintage performers. www.youtube.com |
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~ Big Joe Turner - "Flip Flop And Fly" (1955)
Views: 12301 |  |  |  |  | Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 November 24, 1985 was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came to his g ...More reatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", Turner's career as a performer stretched from the 1920s into the 1980s. Known variously as The Boss of the Blues, and Big Joe Turner (due to his 6'2", 300+ lbs stature), Turner was born in Kansas City and first discovered his love of music through involvement in the church. Turner's father was killed in a train accident when Joe was only four years old. He began singing on street corners for money, leaving school at age fourteen to begin working in Kansas City's nightclub scene, first as a cook, and later as a singing bartender. He eventually became known as The Singing Barman, and worked in such venues as The Kingfish Club and The Sunset, where he and his piano playing partner Pete Johnson became resident performers. The Sunset was managed by Piney Brown. It featured "separate but equal" facilities for white patrons. Turner wrote "Piney Brown Blues" in his honor and sang it throughout his entire career. His partnership with boogie-woogie pianist Pete Johnson proved fruitful. Together they headed to New York City in 1936, where they appeared on a bill with Benny Goodman, but as Turner recounts, "After our show ... |
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~ Flying Home / Dick Boogie & Boogie Woogie All Stars
Views: 2689 |  |  |  |  | Oops! This is perhaps the first band which played the jazz traditonal "Flying Home" by BENNY GOODMAN at Shinjuk LOFT, the most Rockin' live house in Japan! This is the most promising jump blues band in the world!!! They are infulenced by Joe Houston, Chuc ...More k Higgins, Big Jay Mcneely, Arnett Cobb, Illinois Jacquet, Willis Jackson, Jimmy Forrest ,Grady Gaines & New York Dolls, Stooges, Greatful Dead, and MC5!! CHECK THIS OUT: www.dickboogie.com |
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~ Jazz Blues Piano. Haydn huckle's, Blues In H Flat
Views: 39241 |  |  |  |  | Haydn huckle's, Blues In H Flat. Just Haydn and his jazz piano, trying to recreate that awesome big band sound!Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson are three of the greatest jazz musicians ever. I listen to the jazz greats all the time, the way ...More to learn how to play piano is to take piano lessons, learn the basic piano chords, play piano scores, practice piano, then practice piano some more! |
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~ Uptown Rhythm KINGS Chicken Shack*Jump Boogie Woogie Blues
Views: 77917 |  |  |  |  | Gimmie somma' that...Amos Milburn, with a side of: Roy Brown, Maxwell Davis, Paul Gayten, Wynonnie Harris, Jimmy Liggins ...and jump to it man! Put this on stage, even PSB, in 1988 was being out there a little too far ahead of the "Martini and Cigars" fad ...More of the late 90s, for our own good. Oh well, the people in the house dug it, and that's what counted. This one is for the fans of: Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Smiley Lewis, Roy Brown, Tiny Bradshaw, Camille Howard, Amos Milburn, Johnny Moore's Three Blazers But the band leaders/singers too: "Big Joe" Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown, T-Bone Walker, early BB King, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Tiny Bradshaw, Lionel Hampton, Roy Milton, Joe and Johnny Liggins, Louie Prima, Joe Turner, Charles Brown, Roy Brown, Huey Smith, Amos Milburn, Lowell Fulson, Ivory Joe Hunter Johnny Otis, Big Joe Turner, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Percy Mayfield, Jesse Fuller, Pee Wee Crayton, Duke Henderson and the whole roster from Cosimo Studios, New Orleans. A world of thanks to a MAJOR inspiration ...David "Panama" Francis - tymjar |
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~ Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch. - Rumba Negro, 1929
Views: 27316 |  |  |  |  | Bennie Moten (1894 --1935) was a jazz pianist and band leader born in Kansas City, Missouri. He led the Kansas City Orchestra, the most important blues-based orchestra active in the South West in the 1920s, and helped to develop the „riffing" style that w ...More ould come to define many of the 1930s Big Bands. His first recordings were made in 1923, and were rather stiff interpretations of the New Orleans style of King Oliver and others. They also showed the influence of the Ragtime that was still popular in the area. They next recorded in 1926 for Victor In the more sophisticate style of Fletcher Henderson. By 1928 Moten's piano was showing some Boogie Woogie influences, but the real revolution came in the early 1930s when he recruited Count Basie, Walter Page and Oran 'Hot Lips' Page. Walter Page's walking bass lines gave the music an entirely new feel compared to the 2/4 tuba of his predecessor Vernon Page, coloured by Basie's understated, syncopated piano fills. In this time Ben Webster (tenor sax) and Jimmy Rushing (vocal) had also joined. Tragically Bennie Moten died in 1935 from a botched tonsillectomy operation. Buster Moten briefly took over the band, but many of its top members eventually gravitated towards Count Basie. Recording: Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Rumba Negro, Victor 1929 |
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~ Louis JORDAN & His Tympany Five " Jumpin' At The Jubilee " !!!
Views: 6756 |  |  |  |  | RARE OLDIES SOUNDIES WITH MR LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY FIVE ! Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930 ...More s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #59 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Louis Jordan was one of the most successful African-American musicians of the 20th century, ranking fifth in the list of the all-time most successful black recording artists according to Billboard magazine's chart methodology. Though comprehensive sales figures are not available, he scored at least four million-selling hits during his career. Jordan regularly topped the R&B "race" charts, and was one of the first black recording artists to achieve a significant "crossover" in popularity into the mainstream (predominantly white) American audience, scoring simultaneous Top Ten hits on the white pop charts on several occasions. After Duke Ellington and Count Basie, Louis Jordan was probably the most popular and successful black bandleader of his day. But in contrast to almost all of his colleagues of all races, he was a major personality in his own right, an all-round entertainer of enormous and diverse accomplishments. Jordan was a talented singer with great comedic ... |
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~ Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - The Jones Law Blues (1929)
Views: 3011 |  |  |  |  | Bennie Moten (Nov.13,1894 - April 2,1935) was a noted American jazz pianist and band leader born in Kansas City, Missouri. He led the Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the itinerant, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s, an ...More d helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s Big Bands. His first recordings were made in 1923, and were rather stiff interpretations of the New Orleans style of King Oliver and others. They also showed the influence of the Ragtime that was still popular in the area. They next recorded in 1926 for Victor Records in New Jersey, and were influenced by the more sophisticate style of Fletcher Henderson. By 1928 Moten's piano was showing some Boogie Woogie influences, but the real revolution came in 1929 when he recruited Count Basie, Walter Page and Oran 'Hot Lips' Page. Walter Page's walking bass lines gave the music an entirely new feel compared to the 2/4 tuba of his predecessor Vernon Page, coloured by Basie's understated, syncopated piano fills. The 10 legendary December 13,1932 recordings, made when the band were barely staving off literal starvation, show the Basie sound in embryo, four years before Basie recorded under his own name - in fact Moten does not even play on these sessions. By this time Ben Webster and Jimmy Rushing had also joined. After Moten's death in 1935 after an unsuccessful tonsillectomy, Basie took many of the leading musicians from the band to form his own ... |
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