Jimmy Witherspoon & Ben Webster

Jimmy Witherspoon - The Concerts [Recorded 1959] (2002) Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 20, 2024

This CD includes the high point of singer Jimmy Witherspoon's career. On October 2, 1959, he appeared at the Monterey Jazz Festival and created such a sensation that it caused his career to go through a renaissance. Heard at the peak of his powers, Witherspoon holds his own with a mighty group of veterans (trumpeter Roy Eldridge, both Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins on tenors, clarinetist Woody Herman, pianist Earl Hines, bassist Vernon Alley, and drummer Mel Lewis). Although the five-song set only lasted 25 minutes, Witherspoon's performance was the hit of the festival. The other half of this CD features Witherspoon romping through ten mostly traditional blues songs two months later with Ben Webster, baritonist Gerry Mulligan, pianist Jimmy Rowles, bassist Leroy Vinnegar, and drummer Mel Lewis; the performance is equally exciting. This CD is the one truly essential Jimmy Witherspoon release.

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Jimmy Witherspoon - Jay's Blues: The Complete Federal Sessions (1997) Music

Posted by Designol at May 30, 2022

Jays Blues is a fine collection of early-'50s jump blues sides that Jimmy Witherspoon cut for Federal Records. This 23-track collection offers a good retrospective of one of Witherspoon's most neglected – and admittedly, uneven – periods.

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Jimmy Witherspoon - Ain't Nobody's Business (2005) Music

Posted by Designol at March 26, 2024

25 classic post-war West Coast Blues tracks from one of the great voices of the era. With informative notes this set is part of the Complete Blues series, described by Uncut magazine as ' a dazzling, comprehensive story of the blues…the most user-friendly compendium on the market'.

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Jimmy Witherspoon - Live At The 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival (2008) Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 30, 2022

Jimmy Witherspoon - Live At The 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival (2008)
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 209 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 112 MB | Covers - 72 MB
Genre: Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Universal/Monterey Jazz Festival Records (0888072306387)

Blues vocalist Jimmy Witherspoon is at the peak of his performing career during this 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival set, where he is backed by a young but enthusiastic electric band that he had recruited after hearing them open for him in a club the previous year. Witherspoon is in a playful mood, frequently speaking to the crowd. The program is filled with several Witherspoon's most popular numbers, including the humorous "I'm Going to Move to the Outskirts of Town," "Kansas City," and "Early One Morning." Following his raucous take of "Walkin' by Myself," the stage curtain is evidently pulled prematurely, provoking an extended outburst from the singer, who repeatedly threatens to cut the curtain with his knife to the delight of the crowd…

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VA - The Jazz Singers: A Smithsonian Collection of Jazz Vocals from 1919-1994 (1998) Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 19, 2022

VA - The Jazz Singers: A Smithsonian Collection of Jazz Vocals from 1919-1994 (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.6 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 921 MB
6:05:45 | Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Swing, Traditional Pop | Label: Smithsonian Collection

The compilers of this five-CD/cassette box set anthology, which contains 104 tracks and runs over six hours, have taken an inclusive, open-ended approach to both their selections and their sequencing. Unconventionally, the album is organized not chronologically, but thematically, in eight categories – "Steeped in the Blues," Straight out of Church," "Let's Have a Party," "Swinging the Songbook," "After Hours: Slow-Dancing and Torching the Songbook," "Jazz Compositions," and "Novelties and Take-Offs" (in other words, blues, gospel, dance, standards, slow standards, scatting and vocalese, and other). Annotator Robert G. O'Meally is quick to acknowledge that the categories are slippery, however, and to invite the listener to re-arrange the sequencing as he sees fit, a suggestion some may not appreciate.

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VA - The Ultimate Jazz Archive Collection (1899-1956) (2005) (168 CDs Box Set) Music

Posted by murena at Oct. 14, 2018

VA - The Ultimate Jazz Archive Collection (1899-1956) (2005) (168 CDs Box Set)
MP3 320 kbps | 42 Sets, 168 CDs, 07:00:25:24 min | Covers included | 22,5 Gb
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Ragtime, Big Band, Dixieland, Swing / Label: Membran Music

The archive contains of 3179 tracks from 1899 until 1956 on 168 CDs and 2 books with 180 pages of artist biographies each. High-End mastered at 24-bit and 96 kHz.
The Archive is split into 42 Sets x 4xCD. Each CD is untitled and dedicated to one musician, who mostly appears in different collaborations.

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VA - The Ultimate Jazz Archive Collection (1899-1956) (2005) (168 CD Box Set) Music

Posted by murena at Oct. 7, 2018

VA - The Ultimate Jazz Archive Collection (1899-1956) (2005) (168 CD Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks+.cue, log) | 42 Sets, 168 CDs, 07:00:25:24 min | 39,2 Gb | Scans->8,4 Gb
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Ragtime, Big Band, Dixieland, Swing / Label: Membran Music

The archive contains of 3179 tracks from 1899 until 1956 on 168 CDs and 2 books with 180 pages of artist biographies each. High-End mastered at 24-bit and 96 kHz.
The Archive is split into 42 Sets x 4xCD. Each CD is untitled and dedicated to one musician, who mostly appears in different collaborations.

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