CHICAGO BLUES: BOOGIE WOOGIE AND BLUES

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Label
FOLKWAYS RECORDS
Release Date
May 30, 2012
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      MEMPHIS SLIM
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 30, 2012
    • UPC
      093070353626
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FOWY3536.2
    • LABEL
      FOLKWAYS RECORDS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Blues
    Works ⌄

    1. Boogie Woogie Piano Styles

      Composer: Memphis Slim

      Performer: Memphis Slim, Armand "Jump" Jackson

    2. Alberta

      Composer: Memphis Slim

      Performer: Memphis Slim, Arbee Stidham, Armand "Jump" Jackson

    3. Scandinavian Boogie

      Composer: Memphis Slim

      Performer: Memphis Slim, Arbee Stidham, Armand "Jump" Jackson

    4. Between Midnight and Dawn

      Composer: Memphis Slim

      Performer: Memphis Slim, Arbee Stidham, Armand "Jump" Jackson

    5. 46th Street Boogie (Fast Boogie)

      Composer: Memphis Slim

      Performer: Memphis Slim, Arbee Stidham, Armand "Jump" Jackson

    6. The Big Race

      Composer: Memphis Slim

      Performer: Memphis Slim, Arbee Stidham, Armand "Jump" Jackson

    7. Chicago Rent Party

      Composer: Memphis Slim

      Performer: Memphis Slim, Arbee Stidham, Armand "Jump" Jackson

    8. Down South

      Composer: Memphis Slim

      Performer: Memphis Slim, Armand "Jump" Jackson


The music on this recording is at once far-reaching and intimate. It has a quality enjoyed well beyond contemporary fans of this style of music, and yet this recording gives the listener the sense of being privy to a very precise moment in music history with Memphis Slim (1915-1988) as he plays piano. Slim (born Peter Chatman) grew up listening to his father perform blues in various venues in Memphis, Tennessee. He started performing around town at a young age before moving to Chicago at 25. He is accompanied on this album- the third of his four recordings for Folkways Records - by Arnold "Jump" Jackson (drums) and Arbee Stidham (guitar). The liner notes feature a biography of Slim by music critic Martin Williams.