Delmark Records: 45 Years of Jazz and Blues (1998)

About this title: There have been a slew of Delmark compilations centering on the labels illustrious, now 50-plus-year history recording and releasing blues and jazz records of great merit by many of the anchors and pioneers of musical development in those genres. In downtown Chicago, the label's home at the Jazz Record Mart has been a hot bed of influential music without a lull. This double-CD 45th anniversary collection is one of the hippest and most consistent comps in their catalog. Featuring 29 cuts in all, where else would listeners be able to indulge their fascinations and delights in artists as diverse ... read more

Tracks:

1. San Jacinto Stomp [Traditional]
2. Gettysburg March [Traditional]
3. Arnett Blows for 1300 [Cobb]
4. Because of You [Hammerstein/Wilkins]
5. Drum Boogie [Krupa]
6. Call for All Demons [Ra]
7. Cerupa [Payne]
8. Willow Weep for Me [Ronell]
9. God Made It Beautiful [Catalano]
10. Sugar Ray [Newborn]
11. One for Luba [Brown]
12. 47th Street [Thompson]
13. Hyperspace [Williams]
14. Leaving Here Walking [Burns]
15. Sugar Mama [Williamson]
16. I Don't Want No Woman [Robey]
17. I've Got Papers on You Baby [King/Taub]
18. I Want a Little Girl [Moll/Mencher]
19. Why, Baby? [Robinson/Young]
20. Ain't It Nice [Dizz]
21. All for Business [Dawkins]
22. This Old Freight Train [Wheeler]
23. Seventy-Four [Traditional]
24. I Ain't Lyin' [Davis]
25. Look Over Your Shoulder [Smith]
26. What Did You Do to Me [Moore]
27. Back Door Friend [Hopkins]
28. Blues Spoken Here [Specter]
29. Love Her With a Feeling [Tampa Red]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.