Jazz Gillum: Blues By Jazz Gillum Singing Playing His Harmonica

Jazz Gillum: Blues By Jazz Gillum Singing Playing His Harmonica - COMPACT DISCS

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Blues By Jazz Gillum Singing Playing His Harmonica

Artist:

Jazz Gillum

Label:

Folkways Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

093070382626

Genre:

Blues

Release Date:

2012-05-30

Number of Discs:

1

An influential figure in the growth of the Southern blues tradition, William "Jazz" Gillum (1904-1966) had the kind of life from which the blues spring. Orphaned, starved, threatened, shot at, beaten, and discriminated against, Gillum's style, as heard throughout this recording-and as described in the liner notes-is unsurprisingly "sometimes harsh, sometimes poetic, with it's expressive delayed beat and strong rhythm, and it's bitterness tinged with nostalgia." He is joined on this album by Arbee Stidham (vocals and guitar) and Memphis Slim (organ and piano), associates from his early professional jobs in Chicago in the 1930s. Liner notes include song lyrics and a biography of Gillum, who lived and sang the blues his whole life.

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