Memphis Slim - Rocks - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

An intimate recording from the Blues hall-of-famer that puts you in the room with 3 Blues legends!Remastered by multiple Grammy winner Michael Graves.One of Candid's historic blues releases, Memphis Slim, U.S.A. finds the Blues Hall Of Fame inductee in a rare, relaxed setting with two close friends and fellow blues icons, Jazz Gillum and Arbee Stidham. The intimacy-from their loose interplay and improvisation to the eerie realism of the recording-is palpable and feels more like an invitation to their inner circle than a commercial .Grammy-winner Michael Graves' sensitive remastering brings Memphis Slim, U.S.A. to life, letting listeners in as the piano legend and his buddies offer a musical history of the blues from it's Southern juke-joint roots up to it's Chicago-style move toward R&B.Memphis Slim, U.S.A. is an essential document that Candid is proud to bring back to the blues canon. Album Tracks 1. Born with the Blues 2. Just Let Me Be 3. Red Haired Boogie 4. Blue and Disgusted 5. New Key to the Highway 6. I'd Take Her to Chicago 7. Harlem Bound 8. El Capitan 9. I Just Landed in Your Town 10. John Henry 11. I Believe I'll Settle Down 12. Bad Luck and Troubles 13. Late Afternoon Blues 14. Memphis Slim, U.S.A

With InchMerely a Traveler on the Cosmic PathInch drummer and percussionist Adam Rudolph and Ralph Jones on various woodwind instruments present their first studio recording as a duo. Their first recorded collaboration, YEYI (MTA 11) was voted one of the years top 10 CDs of 2011 by NY City Jazz Record. Dusty Groove called it InchA dreamlike flow of elemental sounds and masterful moodsInch. Rudolph's refers to Jones as Inchthe greatest woodwind player you may not have heard of,Inch and the description is apt. Jones' wide-ranging career has included recordings and performances with the likes of Yusef Lateef, Pharaoh Sanders, Ahmed Abdul Malik, Ella Fitzgerald, Wadada Leo Smith, Ken Cox, Detroit's MC5, and his own group, the Seekers of Truth Revolutionary Ensemble. Album Tracks 1. Spirit Voices 2. Storytelling 3. Illuminated 4. Rainbow Rivers of Skin 5. Fragrance of Compassion 6. Ballad of Questions 7. Refracted Splendor 8. Spectrum 9. Calligraphic 10. Wanderings 11. Starlit 12. The Poetry of You 13. Those Who Know, Will Know 14. (Who Is?) Love's Lover

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