The Boss of The Blues

Joe Turner - The Boss of The Blues

The Boss of The Blues
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Artist: Joe Turner
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-11-11
Music Label: United States Of Dist./Ka
Soundtracks:
  1. Cherry Red
  2. Roll 'Em Pete
  3. I Want a Little Girl
  4. Low Down Dog
  5. Wee Baby Blues
  6. You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)
  7. How Long Blues
  8. Morning Glories
  9. St. Louis Blues
  10. Piney Brown Blues

Music reviews of The Boss of The Blues

Music Review: Superb Music-Dreadful "Stereo" Remix
Rating: 1 Stars

As wonderful as it is that this classic continues to receive attention, the stereo remix on this disc is just terrible. The high end-particularly the cymbals-swims around and hopelessly clouds the entire image.

I'm guessing that the remix project was a labor of love, so I'm sorry to conclude that it was misguided and very poorly executed. Listeners would do far better to head for Collectibles' [Atlantic/Rhino-licensed] 2002 edition.

Description of The Boss of The Blues

This 1956 Atlantic release features Big Joe Turner covering some of his early songs, including "Cherry Red" and "Wee Baby Blues." On this album, he's backed by Joe Newman on trumpet, Lawrence Brown on trombone, Pete Brown on alto sax, Frank Wess on tenor sax, Pete Johnson on piano, Freddie Greene on guitar, Walter Page on bass and Cliff Leeman on drums.
In early 1956, Big Joe Turner took a break from his duties as one of the stars of the emerging music called rock & roll to hook up with an eight-piece band--including his longtime cohort, boogie-woogie pianist Pete Johnson--to make an album of the Kansas City jazz he'd helped advance as a blues shouter in the '30s. Most of the material on The Boss of the Blues is from the Turner-Johnson songbook, with "Roll 'Em Pete," "Cherry Red," and "Piney Brown Blues" among the bedrock pieces of the form. Their treatment here is vigorous and swinging, but the best cut may be a long, blowzy version of "Wee Baby Blues" that sounds as much at home in today's late-night bars as Turner's work did in those of the era in which it was made. --Rickey Wright

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