Includes music by Amos Milburn, Lafayette Leake, Dr. John, Eddie Boyd, Johnnie Johnson, Omar Shariff, Memphis Slim, DetroitJunior, Katie Webster, Blind John Davis, and more – 31 tracks in all! CD
Fantastic – one of the few albums of the time from blues singer Lucille Spann – produced by Al Smith, recorded in Chicago, and with small combo backing by a group that features DetroitJunior on piano, and both Mighty Joe Young and Eddie Taylor on guitar! Titles include "Wine Head Woman", "Daddy Let Me Love You", "Everybody's Fishin", "Cry Before I Go", "Make You Feel Like A Bigger Man", and "Mean Ration Blues". LP, Vinyl record album
An amazing record – one of the best on Motown's short-lived Workshop Jazz subsidiary! The album is the first to feature Roy Brooks as a leader – and the super-hip drummer from Detroit really knows what to do with the opportunity! He's working here with a hip group that includes members of the Horace Silver quintet – including Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor, and Gene Taylor on bass – as well as Detroit contemporaries George Bohannon on trombone and Hugh Lawson on piano. The overall style of the record is quite different from Brooks' work with Silver – and has a much more open-ended feeling emotionally – an early hint at the qualities that Roy would unveil on his rare indie sides at the start of the 70s. The tracks are a mix of soul jazz numbers and others with a rougher-hewn sense of modernism – almost like the excellent work coming out of Chicago during the early 60s, from artists like Gene Shaw or the MJT+3. All the players are at their best, and the album features some of the nicest tenor work we've ever heard from Cook. Titles include "Soulsphere", "Soulin", "Homestretch", "Passin The Buck", and "My Secret Passion". LP, Vinyl record album
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