Singin' The Blues

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2009

Label: Jazz Beat

Tracks #1-12 from "Singin' The Blues" (World Pacific WP 1267).

Tracks #13-19 originally appeared in 1966 as part of the collective 3-LP set entitled "The Blues Box" (Verve Folkways FTS 3011-3).

Tracks #20-22 taken from the 1970 ABC-Paramount LP "Handbags And Gladrags" (ABC S 717).


Personnel on tracks #1-12: Jimmy Witherspoon (vcl), Teddy Edwards, Jimmy Allen (ts), Gerald Wilson (tp), Hampton Hawes (p), [Harry Edison and Henry McDode replaces Wilson & Hawes on #1, 3, 5, 7 & 10], Herman Mitchell (g), Jimmy Hamilton (b) and Jimmy Miller (d). Recorded at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, May 8 & 16, 1958.

Personnel on tracks #13-19: Jimmy Witherspoon (vcl), Teddy Edwards (ts), Paul Moer (p), Herman Mitchell (g), Jimmy Bond (b) and Frank Butler (d). Recorded in Los Angeles, 1960.

Personnel on track #20: Jimmy Witherspoon (vcl), Teddy Edwards (ts), plus unknown g, p, b & d. Recorded in Hollywood, early 1958.

Personnel on tracks #21-22: Jimmy Witherspoon (vcl), Harry Sweets Edison (tp), Plas Johnson (el-ts), Gildo Mahones (el-p), Art Hillery (org), Mel Brown, Arthur Adams (g), Ray Brown (b, el-b) and Earl Palmer (d). Recorded in Los Angeles, on February 19, 1970.