Al Smith

With Eddie Lockjaw Davis (2Lps on 1Cd) (FSRCD 668)

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With Eddie Lockjaw Davis (2Lps on 1Cd)

Al Smith

Fresh Sound Records

8427328606684

ABS 130395

FSRCD 668

JAZZ

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With Eddie Lockjaw Davis (2Lps on 1Cd)

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CD 9,98 €

2 LPs ON 1 CD

Tenor saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis’ group gives Al Smith and Mildred Anderson sympathetic backing in these two fine albums recorded for the Prestige/Bluesville label in 1959 and 1960.

Smith, whose bold style was greatly influenced by the Gospel tradition, had the earthy quality often found in the best blues artists. His singing ranges from full-voiced and declamatory to intimate and confidential, but it always carried a charge of vitality that jolts the listener into full awareness. Mildred Anderson possesses a very individual Blues style, neither haunting, nor painful and filled with nostalgia, and certainly not the pretty, dressed up Blues then in vogue. Hers is the rough-hewn, pay-youback, swinging blues, direct, forceful and unsentimental.

Shirley Scott, Wendell Marshall, George Duvivier, and Arthur Edgehill drive powerfully, while on both sessions “Jaws” brings his huge, bustling highly vocalized tenor to bear with idiomatic authority on the material.

PERSONNEL:

(1-8)
from the Al Smith Prestige/Bluesville album Hear My Blues (BVLP 1001)

Al Smith (vcl)
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (ts)
Shirley Scott (org)
Wendell Marshall (b)
Art Edgehill (d).

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, September 20, 1959
.

(9-16) from the Mildred Anderson  Prestige/Bluesville album Person To Person (BVLP 1004)


Mildred Anderson (vcl)
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis (ts)
Shirley Scott (org
George Duvivier (b)
Art Edgehill (d).

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, January 20, 1960
.

Tracks:


01. Night Time Is The Right Time (Oden-Sykes) 4:16
02. I’ll Be Alright (Smith) 3:50
03. I’ve Got The Right Kind of Lovin’ (Smith) 3:23
04. Never Let Me Go (Scott) 5:09
05. I’ve Got A Girl (Smith) 4:32
06. Tears In My Eyes (Smith) 5:59
07. Come On Pretty Babby (Smith) 2:54
08. Pledging My Love (Robey-Washington) 2:27
09. I’m Gettin’ ‘Long Alright [Connections]
(Sharp-Singleton) 2:41
10. I’m Free (Singleton-Bradshaw) 4:55
11. Don’t Deceive Me (Please Don’t Go) (Willis) 4:31
12. Hello Little Boy (Anderson) 3:43
13. Person To Person (Gold) 3:04
14. Cool Kind Of Poppa [Good Kind Daddy] (Smith) 2:55
15. Kidney Stew Blues (Vinson-Blackman) 3:48
16. I Didn’t Have A Chance (Curry) 4:44

Total time: 63:00 aprox.