Urban Blues Singing Legend
Jimmy Witherspoon
Producer: Neil Slaven
JSP (UK), 2006
4 CD
Catalogue #: 7778
EAN: 0788065777821
UPC: 788065777821
You save: 20%
Recording information: 1945 - 1953.
This extensive budget-priced four-CD box set includes studio and live versions of the legendary blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon's first hit, 1949's "Ain't Nobody's Business," as well as many other fine examples of late-'40s and early '50s jump blues and swing, like "Who's Been Jivin' You," "Drunk, Broke and Hungry," and "In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down."
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Jimmy Witherspoon
A quintessential blues shouter in the tradition of Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Witherspoon got his start like many urban blues singers, fronting for jump blues and swing bands in the 1940s. By the late '50s, Witherspoon had started collaborating with more straightforward jazz musicians such as Richard "Groove" Holmes, Earl Hines, and Roy Eldridge. This combination of blues grit and jazz sophistication resulted in a highly influential hybrid embraced by many soul vocalists that emerged after Witherspoon. He succumbed to throat cancer in 1997 at the age of 77.
