Memphis Slim - In Paris - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Peter Chatman Jr.., aka Memphis Slim, stomps out a Inchprogressive boogie and bluesInch on the piano. Self-taught in the honky-tonk juke joints of Tennessee, he produced some of the most powerful boogie-woogie out there, with an incessant bass like you wouldn't believe. Album Tracks 1. Walkin' the Boogie 2. Cow Cow Blues 3. Jefferson County Blues 4. Four O'Clock Blues 5. Mister Freddie 6. Trouble in Mind 7. 44 Blues 8. 88 Boogie 9. Sail on Blues 10. Down Home Blues 11. Down That Big Road 12. Roll and Tumble 13. Crowing Rooster 14. Woman Blues Boogie

The music on this recording is at once far-reaching and intimate. It has a quality enjoyed well beyond contemporary fans of this style of music, and yet this recording gives the listener the sense of being privy to a very precise moment in music history with Memphis Slim (1915-1988) as he plays piano. Slim (born Peter Chatman) grew up listening to his father perform blues in various venues in Memphis, Tennessee. He started performing around town at a young age before moving to Chicago at 25. He is accompanied on this album- the third of his four recordings for Folkways Records - by Arnold InchJumpInch Jackson (drums) and Arbee Stidham (guitar). The liner notes feature a biography of Slim by music critic Martin Williams. Album Tracks 1. Boogie Woogie Piano Styles 2. Alberta 3. Scandinavian Boogie 4. Between Midnight and Dawn 5. 46th Street Boogie (Fast Boogie) 6. The Big Race 7. Chicago Rent Party 8. Down South

Born in the beating heart of Memphis and tempered by the roar of Beale Street and the smoky clubs of Chicago, Peter Chapman emerges here as Memphis Slim, a pianist whose touch rewrote the blues canon long before the world knew his name. From whisky-soaked nights filling in for Roosevelt Sykes to defining his own voice alongside legends, these recordings stand as a testament to a life lived deep in the music that shaped modern American sound. Album Tracks 1. We've Been Together Too Long 2. Sassy Mae 3. The Driving Wheel 4. Life Is Like That 5. All By Myself 6. Next Time You See Me 7. Misery 8. Kansas City 9. The Comeback 10. H.C.F Boogie 11. The Blues Is Everywhere 12. Boogie Jam