Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!

Subject: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: Fortunato
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 01:37 PM

I'm mining for Jump Blues songs that have not already been revived and redone (ala Brian Setzer's copycat version of Louis Prima's Jump Jive and Wail).
I've got the two Rhino collections, but I need to expand beyond that. When I search for the albums of the performers, Jordan, Milton, Prima, Turner, etc. The song title don't mean a thing unless you already know the song(!). I'm hoping you guys can recommend songs worth listening and spare me buying every reissued cd of all these performers.
So if you know the genre, please recommend songs to me.

Thanks for your time, regards, Fortunato

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: Metchosin
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 03:02 AM

I've got some old 78's of Prima and others that I could listen to (if I can find them) and pass on recommendations Fortunato, but I am not certain that what I may like, would necessarily be what you like.

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: Fortunato
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 01:24 PM

Metchosin

Thanks for any time you can spare, if you like a tune I'll order a reissue CD of some of them. Imagine a 5 or 6 piece band trying to get a crowd of dancers up on their feet and rockin'.

People seem to love the call and response thing, where the singer sings a line and the band repeats it or responds to it like: Hey bob a re bop! I'm always looking for those.

Many thanks.

Regards Fortunato

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 04:26 PM

Years ago, when I was in college, and the first wave of retro swept through, we headed down to the St Vicent DePaul Thrift Shop, bought zoot suits, two tone shoes, hand painted silk ties and put together a set that went something like this:

Swing, Brother, Swing Hold, Tight Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar Choo-Choo Boogie Save the Bones for Henry Jones Well, All Right Chicken Shack Boogie In the Mood Tuxedo Junction Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette Saturday Night Fish Fry Down the Road a Piece Basin Street Boogie Flat-foot Floogie Cherry Red

And a bunch of Duke Ellington tunes, filled out with old rock stuff, such as "Good Rockin' Tonite", "Don't You Roll those Bloodshot eyes at me"--

My favorite time in American Music was probably that period where everything, Country, Blues, Jazz, and early rock and roll etc had a real strong eight to the bar, boogie woogie feel--(and maybe a bout a doxen others, but...)

The thing that we found was that you could do about one or two nice basically instrumental numbers, with the really nice feel and solos, and then people would get bored(I won't say that it all sounds the same, but, it does) so we had to do stuff that people had a strong familiarity with, Like Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, or Dorsey Brothers stuff, and real campy harmony vocals vocals (singers are practically a must!!) and a lot of rowdy, double entendre stuff, like Henry Jones,Cherry Red, and Hold Tight--

One thing to remember is that you may score big points with the music buffs by playing some weird old song, but most people like to dance to stuff that they know--

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: Chet W.
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 05:00 PM

You won't do much better than Louis Jordan and Cab Calloway. The thing to do is to get good anthologies of each and see which period(s) of their careers you like the most and seek other albums from there. You have to remember that when a lot of their best music was made, there were no "albums", so a lot of what is available is going to be collections of singles.

Good luck, Chet

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: Metchosin
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 05:01 PM

Fortunato, If Louie Jordan's "Caldonia" don't get 'em up on their feet and dancin', I don't know what will

.

I had a listen to what little I have here and would also recomend you take a look at Lionel Hampton too. Its early stuff but Jack the Bellboy really jumps (no vocals though)

Louis Jordan's Is you Is or Is You Ain't is also a great piece of music.

And one more I can think of, at the moment is "10 Inch Record". I have it here on a CD compilation somewhere sung by a woman, but I noticed it once recorded by "Bull Moose something?". It is full of double entendre? and quite naughty but it's a hoot and a great dance piece.

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: Metchosin
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 05:38 PM

Found it! Big Ten Inch Record by Dana Gillespie and and the Bull Moose something is "Bull Moose Jackson"

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 06:22 PM

All good tunes!!! I had momentarily forgotten "Big Ten Inch", which I have always loved, but never got around to playing--Many of the jump performers, including Jackson and Wynonie Harris, as well as Lucky Millander and other alumnai of his orchestra, released their work on King records, and there is a wonderful boxed set of CD's of King records hits . though can think of the name of it--lots of great dance music, and most of it is what Noel Coward once termed "Agreeably naughty"--

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: Stewie
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 06:35 PM

The set that M.Ted is referring to is 'Various Artists 'The King R&B Box Set' King (4CDs). A full track and artist listing is available at CDNOW site.

Cheers, Stewie.

Subject: RE: Jump Blues: Share your knowledge please!
From: Fortunato
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 10:52 AM

Many Thanks to you all!

Regards, Fortunato