"Singin' Da Blues" - Joe Williams & Joe Turner -1984 Harry "Sweets" Edison - Trumpet Gerald "The Wig" Wiggins - Piano Monty Budwig - Bass Gerryck King - Drums
Someone here has to find out who has the original special, TV show etc. and get the producers to put this on HD or 4K TV. This is a national treasure, an international treasure of popular music in the 20th Century... or any Century. Thanks for posting!
My goodness !!! What a treasure !! Both these guys ____ they kinda know their way around the blues ___ wouldn't you say ___ thanks guys this is forever
I think they did this at Carmello's around 1983. I was there with Sweets. Ran into Jimmy Smith and Jerome Richardson. They made a documentary of this performance. Many in L.A. music scene were there. Carmello's was a great jazz club.
This is absolutely fantastic , two giants for the price one.history was rewritten with more facts and evidence in place.What more could a fun asked for after this.
Gerryk King, they've been waiting for you but sadly, it was the only timing you ever missed. Bless you and your magnificent and humungous loving and generous spirit, your touch was evident to all who had a chance to HEAR IT! You've helped me up and made life less to fear it. Thanks Brother for linking this up in your short time hear, it will forever be sacred and we'll forever CHEER IT!
Тут все таки два легендарных блюзмена. Другое дело что они всегда выступали с джазовыми составами. Биг Джо легенда, но все таки актуален он был в 40-50ые, в 60-е блюз интересен был в основном в Европе, до тех пор пока британцы не сделали из этого рок музыку, и снова до блюза никому не было дело до 80-ых годов, когда пошла ностальгия по 50ым .
What TV show did this come from? I'd buy the whole show for this. I've been lucky enough to see and hear Joe Williams a few times and Joe Turner a couple of times. God bless them.
This is Joe Williams, who grew up in Chicago, became a star when he joined the Basie band in the mid-'50s. This is blues in the Kansas City tradition, and the Basie band brought that sound to the world when they left Kansas City for New York in 1936-37. The trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison came up in that band, became a jazz star, and worked off and on with the band for several decades. He was a favorite of Frank Sinatra, and his distinctive sound can be heard on many of Sinatra's recordings. "Big Joe Williams came from the Delta blues tradition, and is a generation older than this Joe Williams. Joe Turner was one of the great blues shouters, and this is a great example of his art. The other members of this band were Los Angeles studio musicians.
@@jimbrown1559 thanks Jim, I knew the name, but assumed Joe Williams was the same sort of age as the other two Joes. Good singer (well he would be I guess). Been a Joe Turner fan fifty years, he sounds as good as ever here and still smiling, hurts to see him obviously not well. But I gather he lived life on the road to the full, and we can't all be Keith or Willie.
I notice that Joe Williams doesn't seem to sing smoothly through phrases but chops them up, often with spoken words, which completely spoils the flow of the songs he sings. He has such a good voice too. Big Joe Turner is the more convincing singer here.
