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1948-1949
(2004)
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Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon was either a blues singer who worked from a jazz perspective, or a jazz singer with blues tendencies, or most accurately, a blues singer who applied jazz rhythms to a gospel delivery, which makes him, in some ways, a less propulsive version of Ray Charles. This disc of his earliest recordings, most of them released on Modern ...
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Ain't Nobody's Business: Essential [Import]
(2002)
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Jimmy Witherspoon
Although Arkansas shouter Jimmy Witherspoon had a long and varied career, the essential components of his style (which combined a smooth, jazz phrasing with a harder blues edge) were well in place in the late '40s when the recordings on this collection were made. Working predominately at this time with Jay McShann and his orchestra, Witherspoon ...
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