Album
Jimmy Witherspoon
1960 · Blues
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Jimmy Witherspoon is a Blues album by Jimmy Witherspoon, originally released in 1960. On Gatefold: 19 pressings tracked.
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Sound DNA
- Blues
- Acoustic & Delta Blues
- raw
- soulful
- smoky
Tracks A1-A5 taken from a May 9, 1949 concert in Pasadena, CA with Jimmy Witherspoon on vocals backed by the Gene Gilbeaux Quartet with Donald Hall on alto sax. Tracks B1-B3 taken from singles released on the Modern Label in 1950 with Jimmy Witherspoon on vocals backed by the Jay McShann 9-piece orchestra with Maxwell Davis on tenor sax. Tracks B4 & B5 are also Modern Label singles released in the early 1950s. The Buddy Floyd sextet backs up Witherspoon on Track B5
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Jimmy WitherspoonVOCALS, COMPOSED BY
- Al WichardDRUMS
- Buddy FloydLEADER, TENOR SAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE
- Camille HowardPIANO
- Charles GillumTRUMPET
- Donald HillALTO SAXOPHONE
- Donald L. HallALTO SAXOPHONE
- Floyd TurnhamBARITONE SAXOPHONE
- Frank SleetALTO SAXOPHONE
- Gene GilbeauxPIANO PIANO, LEADER
- Henry Tucker GreenDRUMS
- Herman WashingtonBASS
- Jackie KelsoALTO SAXOPHONE
- Jay McShannLEADER, PIANO PIANO
- Jessie SailesDRUMS
- Jewell GrantALTO SAXOPHONE
- Jimmy JacksonTENOR SAXOPHONE
- John AndersonTRUMPET
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 19 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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