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DELMARK SUMMER REISSUE SCHEDULE Jazz & Blues CDs Returning Into Print JULY: James Wheeler Ready! Delmark DE 719 Wheeler’s debut as leader. “The Chicago native and prolific songwriter exudes a relaxed, knowing authority...simple, grounded, no-nonsense blues from the soulful elder with a milk chocolate voice.” - JazzTimes With Billy Flynn, guitar; Ken Saydak, piano; Bob Stroger, bass. Jazz Ltd. Volume One Delmark DE 226 1949 and ‘51 recordings featuring Sidney Bechet, Muggsey Spanier, Don Ewell, Doc Evans and Miff Mole. Jazz Ltd. was a jazz club located at 11 E. Grand owned and operated by Bill and Ruth Reinhardt from 1947 into the early ‘70s. Also features a wonderful five minute interview with Bill and Ruth. Frank Catalano Cut It Out!?! Delmark DE 501 “Just listen to the blues-drenched slow drag of ‘Willow Weep For Me’, a marvel of emotional swagger and lucid improvisation. Cut It Out!?! is likely to be one of the better mainstream releases of the year”. - Cadence. With Ira Sullivan, flute, trumpet (2 songs); Willie Pickens, piano. Brad Goode Shock Of The New Delmark DE 440 “Presumably the shock in question is not Goode’s choice of material but the warmth and surprising command of dynamics the trumpeter possesses”. -JazzTimes. A wide variety of styles (bop to funk to ballad with 14 member string section), with Lin Halliday, Jodie Christian, Ed Petersen, Fareed Haque, Paul Wertico AUGUST: Bob Greene’s Saint Peter Street Strutters DE 234 Jodie Christian Rain Or Shine DE 467 w/ Roscoe Mitchell, Art Porter Malachi Thompson The Jaz Life DE 453 w/ Carter Jefferson Professort’s Blues Review Professor Strut DE 650 w/ Karen Carroll HONEYBOY EDWARDS BIG JACK JOHNSON & THE OILERS DENNIS BINDER & THE BLUE FOUR JOHN PRIMER • ARON BURTON JOHNNY DRUMMER MASTER OF CEREMONIES: BILL WAX (XM RADIO/BLUESVILLE HOST) TIX: (847)492-8860 $30 • $50 RESERVED TABLE www.bluesonthenorthshore.com SPACE 1245 CHICAGO AVE EVANSTON, IL FRI, JUNE 12 8 PM - MIDNIGHT | DOORS 7PM Roosevelt Rd. S 22 Damen Ave. Ashland Ave. W E Halsted St. Canal St. Clark St. State St. Wabash Michigan Ave. 8 Balbo N Lake Shore Drive Congress Pkwy I-290 Eisenhower Expressway Jackson Blvd. I-90/94 Dan Ryan Expressway Fest Site GRANT PARK Madison St. Orleans St. Lake St. 11 16 1 & 20 Grand Ave. Grand Ave Illinois St. Hubbard St. 12 2 Navy Pier Huron St. Ohio St. 4 5 Chicago Ave. Michigan Ave. Oak St. Augusta Lake Michigan Damen Ave. 21 Milwaukee Ave. Division St. 18 15 North Ave Clark St. State 10 19 Armitage Ave Halsted St. Elston Ave 9 Ashland Ave. Fullerton Ave. 6 13 Diversey Ave. Sheffield 7 14 Lincoln Ave 1. Andy’s 11 E. Hubbard St. 2. Betty’s Blues Star Lounge 1600 W. Grand 3. BIll’s Blues Club 1029 Davis, Evanston IL 4. Blue Chicago & Store 534-6 N. Clark 5. Blue Chicago 736 N. Clark 6. B.L.U.E.S. 2519 N. Halsted 7. Brother Jimmys Bar B’Que 2909 N. Sheffield 8. Buddy Guys Legends 754 S. Wabash 9. Green Dolphin Street 2200 N. Ashland 10. Hideout 1354 W. Wabansia 11. House Of Blues 329 N Dearborn Clark St. Racine Ave Lake Shore Drive Belmont Ave R&N’s Chicago Blues Treasure Map 12. Joe’s Bebop Cafe 700 E. Grand (Navy Pier) 13. Kingston Mines 2548 N. Halsted 14. Lillys 2513 N. Lincoln Ave. 15. Nicks 1516 N. Milwaukee 16. Redfish/VooDoo Lounge400 N. State 17. Red Line Café 7006 N. Greenwood, Park Ridge IL 18. Reservation Blues 1566 N. Milwaukee 19. Rosa’s Lounge 3420 W. Armitage 29. Shaws Crab House 21 E. Hubbard 30. SmokeDaddy 1804 W. Division 3
REACTION REPORT Willie “The Lion” Smith & Don Ewell • Stride Piano Duets Delmark DE 249 Smith was one of the “big three” stride-pianists of the 1920s, often playing at rent parties and jam sessions with his pals James P. Johnson and Fats Waller . . . Ewell was among the most imporrtant stride pianists to emerge in the mid-40’s. . . In 1966, Smith and Ewell were teamed together for a television show, resulting in a studio recording and a few gigs later that year. The music on Stride Piano Duets, recorded at a Toronto club later in 1966, had never previously been released. Recording quality is excellent. Smith sounds exuberant in both his verbal announcements and his playing, and Ewell proves to be a perfectly complementary match. . . the music is consistently delightful, joyful and swinging. - Jazziz Wally Rose • Whippin’ The Keys • Delmark DE 248 Wally Rose will always have his place in jazz history. As part of Lu Watters’ Yerba Buena jazz Band, the San Franciscan pianist helped launch the New Orleans jazz revival of the late 40s. . . in the 50s, Rose tinkled the ivories in two groups evolving from Yerba Buena: Bob Scobey’s Frisco Jazz Band and Turk Murphy’s and Turk Murphy’s Jazz Band. The rollicking, infectious title track kicks off the proceedings with a bang. . .Although Rose made over 100 recordings in his lifetime, very few are available on the market today, which makes this one extremely special. - Dirty Linen Red Holloway • Go Red Go • Delmark DE 585 For disingenuous reasons Go Red Go! is a good companion for Cy Touff and Sandy Mosse’s Tickle Toe which Delmark reissued in 2008. Both albums offer up straight-ahead mainstream jazz of the most worthwhile order performed by men who know the territory inside out. The crucial difference between the two is that while Touff and Mosse worked a neo-swing seam, Red Holloway and friends offer up soul-jazz of a kind that doesn’t denigrate the term. Regardless of such differences both sets put a smile on the face and give even the heaviest heart a lift. - All About Jazz Sleepy John Estes • On 80 Highway • Delmark DE 797 On the verge of their first trip to Japan, country blues pioneer Sleepy John Estes and his longtime accompanist Hammie Nixon (harmonica, kazoo) joined together for an intimate session on July 19, 1974. The result, finally released as On 80 Highway, shows two friends comfortable enough with each other that their music and between-tune playfulness is infectious. . . With Nixon egging him on, the “Tennessee Blues Poet” delivers a solid reminder of where the blues came from. - Dirty Linen On 80 Highway is a gift from the vaults - 15 previously unreleased tracks from a relaxed 1974 session . . While these songs may not feel like chart material today, the interplay between Estes’ unique vocal delivery and Nixon’s equally expressive singing and talking harp/kazoo is a piece of magic a half-century in the making. - Living Blues 23
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