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Muddy Waters: Hoochie Coochie Man (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

You might say that for Muddy Waters 1954 came in with a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am, as bassist Willie Dixon and great b...

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Muddy Waters: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

From the mid-1950s into the '60s, Muddy Waters's Chess singles and "hits" kept a-comin' – not big-money chart numbers...

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Muddy Waters: Feel Like Going Home (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

And so we come full circle back to that great standard identified as "Walkin' Blues." Muddy Waters had essayed a clas...

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Lou Rawls: Willow Weep for Me (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music February 15, 09

Although he'd made his first recordings in a gospel group during 1954, and was subsequently seasoned as a backup voca...

Lou Rawls: Lost and Lookin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 15, 09

A year before Sam Cooke's hit single, Lou Rawls (Cooke's boyhood friend and former backup singer) took "Lost and Look...

Muddy Waters: Honey Bee (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

By late 1950, producer Leonard Chess was finally admitting that the 1940s amplified duets approach had run its course...

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Muddy Waters: Long Distance Call (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

At the session that produced "Honey Bee," Muddy Waters also cut this gently rocking ballad, its slightly stately pace...

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Muddy Waters: The Blues Had a Baby and They Named it Rock and Roll (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

Good times don't last. The hits and the innovation faded away even as Muddy Waters's status as the honored senior of ...

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Muddy Waters: I Can't Be Satisfied (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

Muddy Waters moved to Chicago in the mid-'40s and quickly cut a few forgettable tracks for Columbia, but it took the ...

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Muddy Waters: Burying Ground (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

Although Muddy Waters had his own amplified band of four or five (usually including Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica...

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Muddy Waters: Louisiana Blues (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

Little Walter's distinctive and soon-to-be prominent harp work was introduced on this October 1950 session, providing...

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Muddy Waters: Rollin' Stone (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

"Rollin' Stone" puts us waist-deep in the Big/Muddy duet that entered the DNA of more rockers and bluesers than any o...

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Muddy Waters: Country Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

One might glibly say that Chicago Blues starts here. There were many Down South musicians recording in the Windy City...

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Muddy Waters: Rollin' and Tumblin' (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music December 24, 08

This particular duel broke the mold with a fast, chugging-and-churning beat and a chanted, moaning-and-groaning vocal...

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Cassandra Wilson: Honey Bee (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

Wilson hails from Jackson, Mississippi, and on this track she digs deeply into the blues tradition of her home state....

THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07

In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...

A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07

A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...

Jazz Classics That Aren't Kind of Blue posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 23, 09

Did you hear that there was an anniversary for Miles Davis's Kind of Blue? Of course you did. The jazz world ...

Muhal Richard Abrams: Blu Blu Blu (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 03, 09

The title track of Muhal Richard Abrams's Blu Blu Blu big band CD would make a great blindfold test. Just like other ...

The Best of the Dozens posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 26, 09

Today jazz.com publishes the latest installment of its regular feature The Dozens. This article, written by S. Victo...

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