More Instrumentals
Today the words are only from my blabber mouth as the music is all instrumental. There was a vast amount of instrumentals in Rhythm & Blues but in most cases they serve as background of my talking and so every now and then I think it's right to expose them in full.
On the playlist you'll find two tunes with a rare mandolin and violin in them, and I lament the loss of all kinds of instruments in popular music. Already early we lost the fiddler that occasionally played in pre-war blues and big bands, and the once ubiquitous clarinet, the trombone and the trumpet disappeared through the years, leaving the late fifties music only with a saxophone to do the instrumental break, until white rock 'n roll threw that in the junkyard too, concentrating on the guitar only.
Playlist
- Noble Watts - Easy Going
- Memphis Slim - Midnight Jump
- Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds Of Joy - Bear Down
- Harlem Hamfats - Growling Dog
- Lucky Millinder - Shipyard Social Function
- Lionel Hampton - Red Top
- Todd Rhodes - Chicken Strut
- Albert Ammons - Tuxedo Boogie
- Arnett Cobb - Walkin' Home
- Leo Parker & His Mad Lads - Leo's Boogie
- Jim Wynn - J.W. Bop
- Hen Gates and his Gaters - Swinging To The Rock And Roll
- Eddie Chamblee - Back Street
- Lynn 'Turbanhead' Hope - Eleven Til Two
- Bumps Meyers Sextet - Memphis Hop
- Little Willie Jackson - Jackson's Boogie
- Red Prysock - Pog Wog
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Cecil Gant - Rose Room
- Gone All Stars - Gone Stroll
- Hen Gates & his Gaters - Moondog Rock
- Joe Houston - Hurricane
- Lucky Millinder - Apollo Jump