Cool Blues Jumps And Shuffles (2002)

Product Summary Label: Ace UPC: 00029667186520 Release Date: 1/14/2003 Buy.com Sku: 60585727 Item#: MHKHV7 Format:  CD Song Listing   Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. S K Blues Pt. 1 aka New S K Blues Pt. 1 ------ 2. Swingin' ------ 3. Write Me A Letter Blues ------ 4. Lazy Woman Blues aka Lazy Women ------ 5. I'd Climb The Highest Mountain ------ 6. S K Jumps Pt. 1 ------ 7. Stay Gone Blues ------ 8. 2:00 am Hop ------ 9. Empty Bedroom Blues ------ 10. Imagination ------ 11. SK Jumps Pt. 2 aka Summertime Boogie ------ 12. Something's Worrying Me ------ 13. Read The Good Book ------ 14. Danny Boy ------ 15. Going Mad ------ 16. My Close Friend ------ 17. Quit Hangin' Around Me ------ 18. Long Long Time ------ 19. Summertime ------ 20. Get Yourself Another Fool ------ 21. When I Got Home This Morning aka I'm So Worried ------ 22. Auf Wiedersehn, My Dear ------ 23. Empty Bedroom Blues ~ (alternate take) ------ 24. What's Your Story Morning Glory ------ 25. S K Blues Pt. 2 aka New S K Blues Pt. 2 ------   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Includes recordings originally released on Rhythm, Modern, RPM, and Flair in the 1940s and early 1950s. Includes liner notes by Opal Nations. Contains 25 tracks. Personnel: Saunders King (vocals, guitar); Eddie Taylor (tenor saxophone); Sammy Deane (trumpet). Liner Note Authors: Opal Nations; Per Notini; Jon Broven; Ray Topping; Carlos Santana. Arranger: Saunders King. The accurately titled Cool Blues, Jumps & Shuffles is a good overview of Saunders King's career containing 25 tracks from 1942-1954, though it's slightly flawed in that it draws exclusively from his Rhythm and Modern recordings. Those do comprise the bulk of his sessions, but this doesn't include anything from the sides he cut for a few other companies. Still, it does have both parts of his 1942 hit "S.K. Blues," as well as his pair of 1949 R&B hits, "Empty Bedroom Blues" and "Stay Gone Blues." As a whole, the disc shows King to be an underrated, somewhat forgotten period in swing jazz's crossover to the jump blues and guitar R&B that got into vogue just after World War II. There's less of his Charlie Christian-like electric guitar (though he was bluesier than Christian) than you might expect. Indeed, most of the solos are taken by horns rather than the guitar, and "Swingin'" gets closer to bop jazz than R&B or blues. Too, much of the material (largely written by King himself) stuck to similar basic blues chord progressions on mid-tempo numbers and ballads. He was nonetheless a pleasing, smooth blues-jazz vocalist, fronting groups of solid players, though one wishes he got to stretch out more as a guitar soloist, as he does on "SK Jumps Pt. 2." ~ Richie Unterberger   Compilation Appearances Jump With A Shuffle 1298   Technical Info Release Date : 11/19/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 865 Label : Ace Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00029667186520    Related Videos This Time: Robert Cray Ballad Of John Henry Joe ...