Billy Taylor (1921-2010)

The year 2010 was a mournful year, as far as piano and last of the great pianist of golden age of jazz is concerned. First we lost Hank Jones, and now Dr. Bill Taylor.

First time I heard Billy Taylor, I was sneaking through my uncle's jazz collection. He had a personal compilation, kind of favorite traveler's mate, with a dozen track from 1954-55 Taylor/Earl May/Percy Brice sessions. Surely I fell in love with him. At that time I had two convincing reason to really dig him: 1) Practically he could play anything and anybody, from smoky ballads to up-tempo bebop pieces, from Basie-type swing manifestations to Ellington oriented tunes. 2) He reminded me of another unsung hero of jazz piano, Hank Jones. Hank is my yardstick for this instrument. Anything close to him, or feel like close to him, worth listener's attention. And of course, a sheer musical joy is always guaranteed.

Later, I returned to his early works (I wrote about it today, just before this post. Read it here) And then my expedition moved me forward to 1960s. At that point one of the best moments I had with Billy's music came with his gospely I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (1967), accompanied with bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Grady Tate.

Marc Myers in his obituary on Jazzwax defines Billy as "the jazz-musician stereotypes found in pulp fiction and film of the 1950s. He was gregarious and courtly, well-spoken and approachable—and oddly devoid of the simmering anger, anti-social behavior, bad habits and hipster persona that made the jazz life at once alluring and dangerous." Read the rest of his splendid piece, here.

Check this old post of a 1958 video of Billy Taylor, performing his own composition Early Bird with Tony Scott on clarinet, Doc Seversen on trumpet, Mundel Lowe on guitar, Jimmy Cleveland on trombone, Earl May on bass, and Ed Thigpen on drums. More videos are available here.

Classics 1137: Billy Taylor 1945-1949

Classics 1137
Billy Taylor 1945-1949 Release Date: 2000


Other notable musicians in this CD: Doc Cheatham, Denzil Best, Milton Hinton, Shadow Wilson.
Label(s): Savoy, Prestige, H.R.S, Swing 234
Number of sessions: 6


About this period: "When I first really embraced bop, it was—I had, of course, become aware of Parker and Gillespie, prior to coming to New York, but I was very much into Tatum and that kind of thing. I used to have some knock-down, drag-out arguments with Bud Powell, because I'd run into him frequently at Minton's and other places. This was in '44. I came here in '44, and when I got here I worked with Ben Webster at the Deuces, and the whole transition was really being formalized then because this was just prior to Dizzy Gillespie opening at the Onyx with the first bop band downtown." - Billy Taylor

The Album: A good example of what Billy Taylor calls pre-bop, a period of jazz which is not really swing, nor is bebop, but it had all of the ingredients that formalized by people like Clyde Hart, Sid Catlett, Jo Jones, and others. Of course, there are more swing oriented tracks (5 to 8, for instance), or more bop playing stuff (like Paris date), but the main concept is playing a variety of sounds with a great dexterity. - E. K.

Monk’s Mood (see below for details)

Details:

Billy Taylor Trio
Billy Taylor (p), Al Hall (b), Jimmy Crawford (d)

• New York, March 20, 1945, Savoy

S-5792 Monk’s Mood
S-5793 Solace
S-5794 Night And Day
S-5795 Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Walter Thomas Orchestra:
Doc Cheatham (t), Eddie Barefield/Hilton Jefferson (cl,as), Walter ‘Toots’ Thomas/Teddy McRae (ts), Buddy Saffer (barsax), Billy Taylor (p), Milton Hinton (b), Specs Powell (d).

• New York, June 27, 1945, Prestige

8131 -B Black Maria’s Blues
8132-B Bird Brain
8131-A Dee-Tees
8132-A Back Talk

Billy Taylor:
Billy Taylor (p), Ted Sturgis (b), Buford Oliver(d).

• Paris, December 4, 1946, Swing 234

OSW-435-1 The Very Thought Of You
OSW-436-1 Stridin’ Down Champs-Elysées (sic)

Billy Taylor Quartet:
Billy Taylor (p), John Collins (g), J0hn Levy (b), Denzil Best (d).

• New York, June 1947, H.R.S

1068-2 Well Taylor-ed
1069-2 I Don't Ask Questions, I just Have Fun
1070-3 So You Think You’re Cute
1071 -2 Twinkle Toes

Billy Taylor Quartet:
Billy Taylor (p), Herman Mitchell (g), J0hn Levy (b), Denzil Best (d).

• New York, September 26 1947, H.R.S

1084-2 Restricted
1085-3 Stridin’ Down Champs-Elysées
1086-2 Mitch’s Pitch
1087-2 Mr. B. Bops

Billy Taylor Quintet:
John Hardee (ts), Milt Page (org), Billy Taylor (p), John Simmons (b), Shadow Wilson (d).

• New York, November 20 1949, Savoy

SBT-4450 Misty Moming Blues
SBT-4451 The Bug
SBT-4452 Prelude To A Kiss
SBT-4453 Take The “A” Train

Ernie Andrews

Remembering Ernie Andrews

Minstrel Boys: Dylan & The Band at Isle of Wight

While joyously reading the detailed analysis of Bob Dylan and The Band's Basement Tapes, from the pen of Sid Griffin (Million Dollar Bash, Jawbone press), I found this histrorically important video of Dylan/Band, from their Isle of Wight appearence, on Sunday, August 31, 1969.

According to Google video's note, this amazing footage is all that we have of Dylan’s performance that day, and features the following tracks: The Weight (only The Band), I Threw It All Away, Highway 61 Revisited, One Too Many Mornings, I Pity The Poor Immigrant, Minstrel Boy (only the beginning of the song. Complete take on Self Portrait, 1970). Rumor has it that this black and white footage was shot by a friend of John Lennon’s who sat between him and Yoko at the foot of the stage. Later, Lennon damned with faint praise when asked by the press to defend Dylan’s brief performance (an hour was brief granted that the audience, though not of course John Lennon, had been sitting in the mud for three days to await it). Lennon allegedly told the Daily Express: "He gave a reasonable, albeit slightly flat, performance, but everyone was expecting Godot, a Jesus, to appear."

The video rounds off with remarkable footage of The Band live at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh in November 1970, shot in color, bur very amateurishly, for Dutch television. Songs including: Time To Kill, The Weight, This Wheel’s On Fire and Up On Cripple Creek.

By the way, recently, Neil Young under the direction of Garth Hudson made an excellent recording of This Wheel’s On Fire which can be found in the album Canadian Celebration of the Band. This Neil Young interpretation significantly came out just a week after a fire destroyed his garage and he lost many of his beloved things and archival materials.

[December 21 UPDATE]

I noticed that Neil Young's new album, Le Noise is among Rolling Stone's 30 best records of the 2010. Though I didn't really like it, it's a good news. Le Noise is composed of eight new songs and no band. Neil is, accompanying himself on guitars with maximum fuzz and electronics, manipulated by producer Daniel Lanois. Rolling Stone writer, David Fricke, gives this four stars (out of five) and writes:

"The most personal thing about Le Noise is the sense of a restless master caught in the pursuit of ideas, shaping their expression. In Love and War, Young — his creaky whisper and acoustic guitar buoyed by Lanois' watery treatments — confesses an uncertainty hard to believe in one of rock's most driven stars: "When I sing about love and war/I don't really know what I'm saying." But then the conviction comes back. He only has that one way forward, through the music: "I sang in anger, hit another bad chord/But I still try to sing about love and war." Le Noise is, ultimately, an extreme simplicity: the sound of a man who won't give up."

[Second UPDATE, same day]
A funny video. Neil Young reveals that the fashion world never really understood him.

Trinke Tinkle, Vol.2: The Party's Over

In memory of Hank Jones

“It has to swing or seem to swing. It has to contain the element of surprise, and it has to embody the eternal search for the blues.” These are John Lewis’s words, his interpretation of what we call jazz.

This is my second compilation of jazz tunes for readers of this blog, especially those who did bear with me during the year 2010, which is now vanishing very fast.

All these tracks swing or seem to swing. They contain elements of surprise and the eternal search for the blues is always on (the volume one is still here). Yes, 2010 party is almost over and this a Christmas present. A small shot, after a 12-month long hangover.

دومين مجموعه قابل دانلود از 12 قطعه برگزيده جاز، به ياد هنك جونز. اگر علاقه‌اي به قسمت اول آن داشتيد بايد اين‌جا سراغش را بگيريد. مشخصات قطعات علاوه بر همين جا، در پوشه فشرده شده آلبوم وجود دارد.

Tracks:

1
Good Morning Heartache
Ray Bryant
1976
From the album: Here's Ray Bryant
January 10 or 12, 1976/Pablo/New York
• Ray Bryant (p)/George Duvivier (b)/Grady Tate (d).

2
When Your Lover Has Gone
Wild Bill Davis
1976
From the album: All Right, OK, You Win
January 21 or 22, 1976/Black & Blue/Paris
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (ts)/ Wild Bill Davis (org)/Billy Butler (g)/ Oliver Jackson (d).

3
Nails
Count Basie & His Orchestra
1956
From the album: Basie in London
September 7, 1956 /Verve/Gothenburg, Sweden
• Reunald Jones (t), Thad Jones (t),Joe Newman (t),Wendall Culley (t)/ Benny Powell (tb),Henry Coker (tb),Matthew Gee (tb)/Marshall Royal (as)/ Frank Wess (as)/Frank Foster (ts)/Charlie Fowlkes (bs)/ Count Basie (p)/ Freddie Green (g)/ Eddie Jones (b)/ Sonny Payne(d).

4
I Love the Rhythm in a Riff
Red Rodney
1955
From the album: Modern Music from Chicago
Probably June 20, 1955/Fantasy/New York
• Red Rodney (t, voc)/Jimmy Ford (as)/Ira Sullivan (ts)/Norman Simons (p)/Victor Sproles (b)/Roy Haynes (d)

5
Strong Man
Abbey Lincoln
1957
From the album: That's Him!
October 28, 1957/Riverside/N.Y.C
• Kenny Dorham (t)/ Sonny Rollins (ts)/Paul Chambers (b)/Max Roach (d)/Abbey Lincoln (voc).

6
Kary's Trance
Lee Konitz
1956
From the album: Lee Konitz Inside Hi-Fi
October 16, 1956/Atlantic/Hackensack, New Jersey
• Lee Konitz (as), Billy Bauer (g), Arnold Fishkind (b), Dick Scott (d).

7
Pennies from Heaven
Big Joe Turner
1977
From the album: In the Evening
March 10, 1976/Pablo/probably New York
• Bob Smith (as)/J.D. Nicholson (P)/Herman Bennett (g), Pee Wee Crayton (g)/Winston McGregor (b)/Charles Randall (d)

8
Minha (All Mine)
Bill Evans
1976
From the album: Köln Concert 1976
Jun 9, 1976/Gambit/Köln, Germany
• Bill Evans (p)/Eddie Gomez (b)/ Eliot Zigmund (d).

9
Sonny's Blues
Sonny Criss
1974
From the album: Live In Italy
January 28, 1974/Fresh Sound/Bologna, Italy
• Sonny Criss (as)/Georges Arvanitas (p)/Jacki Samson (b)/Charles Saudrais (d).

10
Disappointed
James Moody
1955
From the album: Hi-Fi Party
August 23 or 24, 1955/Press/New York
• Dave Burns (t)/William Shepherd (tb)/Pee Wee Moore (bs)/Jimmy Boyd (p)/ John Lathan (b)/ Clarence Johnson (d)/Eddie Jefferson (voc).

11
The Party's Over
Aaron Bell
1958
From the album: After the Party's Over
June 20, 1958/RCA/New York City
• Hank Jones (p)/Aaron Bell (b)/Ed Thigpen (d).

12
Tomorrow Night
Lonnie Johnson
1947
From the album: Blues & Rhythm Classics 5189
December 1947/King/Cincinnati
John Huughes (p)/Roy Coulter (b)/Lonnie Johnson (g, voc)

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Remembering Eddie Lang

Remembering one of the fathers of jazz guitar,
Eddie Lang

Up to three years ago I hardly knew anything about Eddie Lang. I think it was a Reading-based guitarist who drew my attention to the man whose real name was Salvatore Massaro.

Lang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 25 1902. His father was a violin and guitar maker and under his influence Eddie picked up a string instrument. He received tuition on violin as a kid and attended the same school with fellow fiddler Joe Venuti. The two became close friends and often worked together later on. (I have some tapes from this collaboration.)

Eddie Lang played violin with a local band and on banjo towards the end of World War I. He was already playing guitar at that time but switched between instruments until the mid-twenties. After a string of shorter engagements, Lang joined the Mound City Blue Blowers in 1924 and visited London with this group. From 1925 onwards, Lang played guitar with numerous quite different bands of all genres and sizes. In 1926 he teamed up with his buddy Joe Venuti again. The two joined Roger Wolfe Kahn's Society Band which played in a style that had little in common with the music Lang recorded under is own name. His most fascinating records were made along side blues guitarist Lonnie Johnson. However, racial segregation prevented this incredible duo from performing in public.

Hank Jones Interviewed by Gary Giddins

Hank Jones Masterclass from NYU Steinhardt on Vimeo.

Goodbye Again (1961)

Goodbye Again (1961)
(AKA Aimez-Vous Brahms?)
USA-France/B&W/120mins
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Music by: Georges Auric
Arranged by: Billy Byers


A 40-year-old woman swaps her sophisticated lover for a young law student. In this story of the love triangle between middle-aged Ingrid Bergman, playboy Yves Montand and very young-for-Bergman, Anthony Perkins (who won the Best Actor Award at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival) there is a scene when Perkins goes to a club and Lucky Thompson's quartet is on floor. They play Love is just a word (written by by Georges Auric and Dory Langdon, based upon Brahms' Third Symphony). Diahann Carroll sings along with them. The band line up consists of Lucky Thompson, tenor sax; Maurice Vander, piano; Pierre Michelot, acoustic double bass; Kenny Clarke, drums. There is also a guest appearance by Sacha Distel.

Kenny Clarke

Lucky Thompson, Kenny Clarke, Pierre Michelot

Blues & Rhythm Classics Discography

Blues & Rhythm Classics (also known as "Rhythm and Blues Classics") is a series of French Classics Records label devoted to rhythm and blues of the 1940s and 1950s. It contains 190 releases (5000-5189) that began in 2001.

For many years I was wondering why there is no information in regard to the Classics label which played a major role in introducing a generation to classic jazz, and in this case R&B. "I guess he was a bit of a technophobe," wrote Dave Penny, the author of liner notes for the Blues & Rhythm Classics, about the founder and boss of the Classics, Gilles Petard. This may explain many things as far as obscurity of the label is concerned, but still, the comment Dave left at the end of this post shed light on more issues, especially how the job was done:

[The] process was all very mundane; I first began writing for Gilles when he was putting out LPs on French Pathé and his own Official and Sing labels in the 1980s. Around 2001 I got a letter from him [Gilles Petard] (I guess he was a bit of a technophobe), telling me that he was launching an R&B series of his Chronological Classics set, to run parallel to the jazz series that had already been going for over 10 years by that time.

I probably wasn't his first choice of writer, but I was the first one who agreed take on that huge task for the tiny amount of money he wanted to pay (he was always pretty mean when it came to paying fees, but I was more interested in researching and writing about the artists than about how much I was being paid).

From 2001 until 2008 he sent me the track-listings for, first two compilations a month and, then, increased this to three a month once the series became established. There was never any compiling, as such, because it was simply all the artist's tracks in chronological order, and all I got was his typed sheets through the post every month (i.e. no cassettes or CD-Rs of the tracks listed). He had a great record collection, himself, and a fantastic network of heavy-duty blues and R&B collectors to call upon, so that there were very few recordings he wasn't able to track down during those seven years.

It all came to a sudden end in 2008 when two of his distributors in France collapsed owing his company lots of money. The CDs weren't selling very well any more (too many people were downloading them free from blogs and torrent sites), so he decided to call it a day. He told me he was thinking of carrying the series on as downloads only on iTunes, and I did a couple more notes for him on this understanding, but as far as I'm aware they were never released.

While I was relieved that I didn't have the huge pressure of writing three essays a month anymore, I was sad that we hadn't covered every artist we should have...or completed the recording careers of those we had started. I am proud of what we did achieve, though; after all, who else would have bothered releasing CDs of Jo Jo Adams, Tom Archia, Buster Bennett and Rusty Bryant - to name just the As and Bs!

Thanks to Mr. Dave Penny, now we know a lot more!

Sorted by serial number

5000	Ray Charles 1949-1950
5001	Marion Abernathy 1947-1949
5002	Dave Bartholomew 1947-1950
5003	Ruth Brown 1949-1950
5004	Professor Longhair 1949
5005	Earl Bostic 1945-1948
5006	Tom Archia 1947-1948
5007	T-Bone Walker 1929-1946
5008	Muddy Waters 1941-1948
5009	Big Jay Mcneely 1948-1950
5010	Walter Brown 1945-1947
5011	Tiny Bradshaw 1934-1947
5012	Sticks Mcghee 1947-1951
5013	Sunnyland Slim 1947-1948
5014	Lightnin’ Hopkins 1946-1948
5015	Ivory Joe Hunter 1945-1947
5016	Lloyd Glenn 1947-1950
5017	Eddie Vinson 1945-1947
5018	Amos Milburn 1946-1947
5019	Todd Rhodes 1947-1949
5020	Joe Liggins 1944-1946
5021	Roy Brown 1947-1949
5022	Earl Bostic 1948-1949
5023	Lightnin' Hopkins 1948
5024	Crown Prince Waterford 1946-1950
5025	Fats Domino 1949-1951
5026	Ivory Joe Hunter 1947
5027	Johnny Otis 1945-1947
5028	Andrew Tibbs 1947-1951
5029	Muddy Waters 1948-1950
5030	Clarence Gatemouth Brown 1947-1951
5031	Tiny Bradshaw 1949-1951
5032	Milt Buckner 1946-1951
5033	T-Bone Walker 1947
5034	Freddie Mitchell 1949-1950
5035	Sunnyland Slim 1949-1951
5036	Roy Brown 1950-1951
5037	Buster Bennett 1945-1947
5038	Walter Brown 1947-1951
5039	Earl Bostic 1949-1951
5040	Todd Rhodes 1950-1951
5041	Roy Milton 1945-1946
5042	Eddie Vinson 1947-1949
5043	Jim Wynn 1945-1946
5044	Lowell Fulson 1946-1947
5045	Lightnin’ Hopkins 1948-1949
5046	Billy Wright 1945-1950
5047	Amos Milburn 1947
5048	Tiny Grimes 1944-1949
5049	Ivory Joe Hunter 1947-1950
5050	Ray Charles 1950-1952
5051	Jimmy Witherspoon 1947-1948
5052	Sugar Chile Robinson 1949-1952
5053	B.B. King 1949-1952
5054	Bull Moose Jackson 1945-1947
5055	Dave Bartholomew 1950-1952
5056	Howlin’ Wolf 1951-1952
5057	Joe Morris 1946-1949
5058	Big Jay Mcneely 1951-1952
5059	Little Miss Cornshucks 1947-1951
5060	Fats Domino 1951-1952
5061	Paul & Dud Bascomb 1945-1947
5062	Jimmy Mccracklin 1945-1948
5063	Joe Liggins 1946-1948
5064	Saunders King 1942-1948
5065	Chris Powell 1949-1952
5066	Little Esther 1951-1952
5067	Johnny Otis 1949-1950
5068	Mabel Scott 1946-1950
5069	Lloyd Glenn 1951-1952
5070	Jim Wynn 1947-1959
5071	Lowell Fulson 1947-1948
5072	Lil Green 1940-1941
5073	Hal Singer 1948-1951
5074	T-Bone Walker 1947-1950
5075	Joe Lutcher 1947
5076	Sherman Williams 1947-1951
5077	Amos Milburn 1948-1949
5078	Big Bill Broonzy 1949-1951
5079	Lightnin’ Hopkins 1949-1950
5080	Jimmy Witherspoon 1948-1949
5081	King Perry 1945-1949
5082	Elmore James 1951-1953
5083	Jo Jo Adams 1946-1953
5084	Ruth Brown 1951-1953
5085	Jimmy Rushing 1946-1953
5086	John Brim 1950-1953
5087	Ace Harris 1937-1952
5088	Big Mama Thornton 1950-1953
5089	Big Maybelle 1944-1953
5090	Roy Brown 1951-1953
5091	Little Walter 1947-1953
5092	Terry Timmons 1950-1953
5093	Earl Bostic 1952-1953
5094	Sonny Boy Williamson 1951-1953
5095	Fats Domino 1953
5096	Annisteen Allen 1950-1953
5097	Bill Doggett 1952-1953
5098	Howlin’ Wolf 1952-1953
5099	Lil Green 1942-1946
5100	Lloyd Price 1952-1953
5101	Big Bill Broonzy 1951
5102	Johnny Otis 1950
5103	Tj Fowler 1948-1953
5104	Paula Watson 1948-1953
5105	Bull Moose Jackson 1947-1950
5106	Tiny Grimes 1949-1951
5107	Mabel Scott 1951-1955
5108	Joe Liggins 1948-1950
5109	Muddy Waters 1950-1952
5110	Jimmy Mccracklin 1948-1951
5111	Sarah Mclawler 1950-1953
5112	Bill Samuels 1945-1947
5113	Ivory Joe Hunter 1950-1951
5114	Percy Mayfield 1947-1951
5115	The Clovers 1950-1953
5116	Effie Smith 1945-1953
5117	Amos Milburn 1950-1951
5118	T-Bone Walker 1950-1952
5119	Julia Lee 1927-1946
5120	Billy Ward 1950-1953
5121	Charlie Singleton 1949-1953
5122	Lowell Fulson 1948-1949
5123	Martha Davis 1946-1951
5124	Big Bill Broonzy 1951-1952
5125	Joe Morris 1950-1953
5126	Lavern Baker 1949-1954
5127	Gatemouth Brown 1952-1954
5128	J.B. Lenoir 1951-1954
5129	King Perry 1950-1954
5130	Floyd Jones 1948-53
5131	Lil Green 1947-51
5132	Roy Als/Hank Ballard & Midnighters 1952-54
5133	Lightnin' Hopkins 1950-51
5134	Ray Charles 1953-54
5135	Willis Jackson 1950-54
5136	Lula Reed 1951-54
5137	Leroy Foster 1948-52
5138	Johnny Ace 1951-54
5139	Guitar Slim 1951-54
5140	Otis Blackwell 1952-54
5141	Faye Adams- 1952-54
5142	Clyde Mc Phatter & The Drifters 1953-54
5143	Sugar Boy Crawford 1953-54
5144	Julia Lee 1947
5145	Larry Darnell 1949-51
5146	Tiny Grimes 1951-54
5147	Little Esther 1952-53
5148	B.B. King 1952-53
5149	Saunders King 1948-54
5150	Percy Mayfield-1953-54
5151	Titus Turner 1949-54
5152	T-Bone Walker 1952_54
5153	Lonnie Johnson 1949-52
5154	Willie Mabon 1949-54
5155	Joe Liggins 1950-52
5156	Bull Moose Jackson 1950-53
5157	J.T. Brown 1950-54
5158	Amos Milburn 1952-53
5159	Todd Rhodes 1952-54
5160	The Hawks/The Bees 1953-54
5161	Tommy Ridgiey 1949-54
5162	Johnny Otis 1951
5163	Johnny Sparrow 1949-55
5164	Lowell Fulson 1949-51
5165	Jimmy Witherspoon 1950-51
5166	Smiley Lewis 1947-52
5167	Little Junior Parker 1952-55
5168	Sticks Mc Ghee 1951-59
5169	Dave Barthoiomew 1952-55
5170	Big Jay Mc Neely 1953-55
5171	Sunnyland Slim 1952-55
5172	Johnny "Guitar" Watson -1952-55
5173	Viviane Greene 1947-1955
5174	Earl King 1953-55
5175	Bill Doggett 1954
5176	Ike Turner 1951-1954
5177	Lonnie Johnson 1948-49
5178	Billy Ward & His Dominoes 1953-54
5179	Earl Bostic 1954-55
5180	Jimmy Mc Cracklin 1951-54
5181	Ruth Brown 1954-56
5182	Rusty Bryant 1952-54
5183	Little Walter 1953-55
5184	J. B. Lenoir 1955-56
5185	Stomp Gordon 1952-56
5186	Lavern Baker 1955-57
5187	Lloyd Glenn 1954-57
5188	Sonny Boy Williamson 1956-56
5189	Lonnie Johnson 1947-48

Sorted by Artist's name

Ace Harris 1937-1952	5087
Amos Milburn 1946-1947	5018
Amos Milburn 1947	5047
Amos Milburn 1948-1949	5077
Amos Milburn 1950-1951	5117
Amos Milburn 1952-53	5158
Andrew Tibbs 1947-1951	5028
Annisteen Allen 1950-1953	5096
B.B. King 1949-1952	5053
B.B. King 1952-53	5148
Big Bill Broonzy 1949-1951	5078
Big Bill Broonzy 1951	5101
Big Bill Broonzy 1951-1952	5124
Big Jay Mc Neely 1953-55	5170
Big Jay Mcneely 1948-1950	5009
Big Jay Mcneely 1951-1952	5058
Big Mama Thornton 1950-1953	5088
Big Maybelle 1944-1953	5089
Bill Doggett 1952-1953	5097
Bill Doggett 1954	5175
Bill Samuels 1945-1947	5112
Billy Ward & His Dominoes 1953-54	5178
Billy Ward 1950-1953	5120
Billy Wright 1945-1950	5046
Bull Moose Jackson 1945-1947	5054
Bull Moose Jackson 1947-1950	5105
Bull Moose Jackson 1950-53	5156
Buster Bennett 1945-1947	5037
Charlie Singleton 1949-1953	5121
Chris Powell 1949-1952	5065
Clarence Gatemouth Brown 1947-1951	5030
Clyde Mc Phatter & The Drifters 1953-54	5142
Crown Prince Waterford 1946-1950	5024
Dave Barthoiomew 1952-55	5169
Dave Bartholomew 1947-1950	5002
Dave Bartholomew 1950-1952	5055
Earl Bostic 1945-1948	5005
Earl Bostic 1948-1949	5022
Earl Bostic 1949-1951	5039
Earl Bostic 1952-1953	5093
Earl Bostic 1954-55	5179
Earl King 1953-55	5174
Eddie Vinson 1945-1947	5017
Eddie Vinson 1947-1949	5042
Effie Smith 1945-1953	5116
Elmore James 1951-1953	5082
Fats Domino 1949-1951	5025
Fats Domino 1951-1952	5060
Fats Domino 1953	5095
Faye Adams- 1952-54	5141
Floyd Jones 1948-53	5130
Freddie Mitchell 1949-1950	5034
Gatemouth Brown 1952-1954	5127
Guitar Slim 1951-54	5139
Hal Singer 1948-1951	5073
Howlin’ Wolf 1951-1952	5056
Howlin’ Wolf 1952-1953	5098
Ike Turner 1951-1954	5176
Ivory Joe Hunter 1945-1947	5015
Ivory Joe Hunter 1947	5026
Ivory Joe Hunter 1947-1950	5049
Ivory Joe Hunter 1950-1951	5113
J. B. Lenoir 1955-56	5184
J.B. Lenoir 1951-1954	5128
J.T. Brown 1950-54	5157
Jim Wynn 1945-1946	5043
Jim Wynn 1947-1959	5070
Jimmy Mc Cracklin 1951-54	5180
Jimmy Mccracklin 1945-1948	5062
Jimmy Mccracklin 1948-1951	5110
Jimmy Rushing 1946-1953	5085
Jimmy Witherspoon 1947-1948	5051
Jimmy Witherspoon 1948-1949	5080
Jimmy Witherspoon 1950-51	5165
Jo Jo Adams 1946-1953	5083
Joe Liggins 1944-1946	5020
Joe Liggins 1946-1948	5063
Joe Liggins 1948-1950	5108
Joe Liggins 1950-52	5155
Joe Lutcher 1947	5075
Joe Morris 1946-1949	5057
Joe Morris 1950-1953	5125
John Brim 1950-1953	5086
Johnny "Guitar" Watson -1952-55	5172
Johnny Ace 1951-54	5138
Johnny Otis 1945-1947	5027
Johnny Otis 1949-1950	5067
Johnny Otis 1950	5102
Johnny Otis 1951	5162
Johnny Sparrow 1949-55	5163
Julia Lee 1927-1946	5119
Julia Lee 1947	5144
King Perry 1945-1949	5081
King Perry 1950-1954	5129
Larry Darnell 1949-51	5145
Lavern Baker 1949-1954	5126
Lavern Baker 1955-57	5186
Leroy Foster 1948-52	5137
Lightnin' Hopkins 1948	5023
Lightnin' Hopkins 1950-51	5133
Lightnin’ Hopkins 1946-1948	5014
Lightnin’ Hopkins 1948-1949	5045
Lightnin’ Hopkins 1949-1950	5079
Lil Green 1940-1941	5072
Lil Green 1942-1946	5099
Lil Green 1947-51	5131
Little Esther 1951-1952	5066
Little Esther 1952-53	5147
Little Junior Parker 1952-55	5167
Little Miss Cornshucks 1947-1951	5059
Little Walter 1947-1953	5091
Little Walter 1953-55	5183
Lloyd Glenn 1947-1950	5016
Lloyd Glenn 1951-1952	5069
Lloyd Glenn 1954-57	5187
Lloyd Price 1952-1953	5100
Lonnie Johnson 1947-48	5189
Lonnie Johnson 1948-49	5177
Lonnie Johnson 1949-52	5153
Lowell Fulson 1946-1947	5044
Lowell Fulson 1947-1948	5071
Lowell Fulson 1948-1949	5122
Lowell Fulson 1949-51	5164
Lula Reed 1951-54	5136
Mabel Scott 1946-1950	5068
Mabel Scott 1951-1955	5107
Marion Abernathy 1947-1949	5001
Martha Davis 1946-1951	5123
Milt Buckner 1946-1951	5032
Muddy Waters 1941-1948	5008
Muddy Waters 1948-1950	5029
Muddy Waters 1950-1952	5109
Otis Blackwell 1952-54	5140
Paul & Dud Bascomb 1945-1947	5061
Paula Watson 1948-1953	5104
Percy Mayfield 1947-1951	5114
Percy Mayfield-1953-54	5150
Professor Longhair 1949	5004
Ray Charles 1949-1950	5000
Ray Charles 1950-1952	5050
Ray Charles 1953-54	5134
Roy Als/Hank Ballard & Midnighters 1952-54	5132
Roy Brown 1947-1949	5021
Roy Brown 1950-1951	5036
Roy Brown 1951-1953	5090
Roy Milton 1945-1946	5041
Rusty Bryant 1952-54	5182
Ruth Brown 1949-1950	5003
Ruth Brown 1951-1953	5084
Ruth Brown 1954-56	5181
Sarah Mclawler 1950-1953	5111
Saunders King 1942-1948	5064
Saunders King 1948-54	5149
Sherman Williams 1947-1951	5076
Smiley Lewis 1947-52	5166
Sonny Boy Williamson 1951-1953	5094
Sonny Boy Williamson 1956-56	5188
Sticks Mc Ghee 1951-59	5168
Sticks Mcghee 1947-1951	5012
Stomp Gordon 1952-56	5185
Sugar Boy Crawford 1953-54	5143
Sugar Chile Robinson 1949-1952	5052
Sunnyland Slim 1947-1948	5013
Sunnyland Slim 1949-1951	5035
Sunnyland Slim 1952-55	5171
T-Bone Walker 1929-1946	5007
T-Bone Walker 1947	5033
T-Bone Walker 1947-1950	5074
T-Bone Walker 1950-1952	5118
T-Bone Walker 1952_54	5152
Terry Timmons 1950-1953	5092
The Clovers 1950-1953	5115
The Hawks/The Bees 1953-54	5160
Tiny Bradshaw 1934-1947	5011
Tiny Bradshaw 1949-1951	5031
Tiny Grimes 1944-1949	5048
Tiny Grimes 1949-1951	5106
Tiny Grimes 1951-54	5146
Titus Turner 1949-54	5151
Tj Fowler 1948-1953	5103
Todd Rhodes 1947-1949	5019
Todd Rhodes 1950-1951	5040
Todd Rhodes 1952-54	5159
Tom Archia 1947-1948	5006
Tommy Ridgiey 1949-54	5161
Viviane Greene 1947-1955	5173
Walter Brown 1945-1947	5010
Walter Brown 1947-1951	5038
Willie Mabon 1949-54	5154
Willis Jackson 1950-54	5135