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Anthony Braxton – 3 Compositions Of New Jazz
Anthony Braxton – 3 Compositions Of New Jazz Delmark 415 [A.A.C.M. Jazz Series] (1968) Anthony Braxton was first documented as a player in 1967 on Muhal Richard Abrams’ Levels And Degrees Of Light (Delmark 413). Nine months of gestation produced this, his first recording as a leader. Braxton the player/composer/constructor is here at full length;…
Josh Berman – Old Idea
Josh Berman – Old Idea Delmark 588 (2009) For a decade jazz cornetist Josh Berman has been a mainstay of the post-Vandermark generation of Chicago improvisers, a wide circle of ambitious musos who meet up in varied ad hoc or fixed settings: a circle including all the players in Josh’s group Old Idea. He’s already…
Magic Sam – West Side Soul
Magic Sam – West Side Soul Delmark 615 w/ Mighty Joe Young. Five Stars from Downbeat! Sam’s Singing and playing have their roots deeply implanted in the Mississippi soil of his youth as well as in the traumatic everyday life of the raw West Side. But like all good blues and all great art, he…
J.B. Hutto & His Hawks – Hawk Squat
J.B. Hutto & His Hawks – Hawk Squat (w/ Sunnyland Slim) Delmark 617 “The raw-as-an-open-wound Chicago slide guitarist J.B. Hutto outdid himself throughout an outrageously raucous album anchored by an impossible-to-ignore ‘Hip Shakin’, the blaring title cut, and savage renditions of ‘20% Alcohol’ and ‘Notoriety Woman’.” -Bill Dahl, allmusic.com. The rough & rowdy blues heard…
Junior Wells – South Side Blues Jam
Junior Wells – South Side Blues Jam Delmark 628 We have tried to capture on this album what a listener would hear any Monday night at Theresa’s Blues Bar (now defunct) at 48th and Indiana on Chicago’s Southside. The Blues Monday regulars, including Buddy Guy are joined by the late Otis Spann, the greatest blues…
Otis Rush – Cold Day In Hell
Otis Rush – Cold Day In Hell Delmark 638 Guts. That’s what this record is all about: Otis Rush’s days in hell, and the tentative joys of returning above ground. Everything about Otis Rush says guts: his squeezing, piercing guitar, his raw-boned, blood-tinged vocals, his lyrics, full of a profound sense of the trips men…
Magic Sam – Magic Sam Live
Magic Sam – Magic Sam Live Delmark 645 Live recordings from the Alex Club in Chicago (1963-64) and at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival (1969).
Jimmy Johnson – North / South
Jimmy Johnson – North / South Delmark DD 647 Compact Disc Jimmy Johnson came dramatically to the attention of the blues world with the release of his first American album, Johnson’s Whacks (Delmark 644), in 1979, one of the few albums around that time to project a new and distinctive blues personality. Originally issued in…
