Evidence's 1996 reissue of the 1984 Johnny "Big Moose" Walker album Blue Love is adorned with five bonus tracks, all added to the beginning of the album. Fortunately, this does not change the essential character of this sublime, low-key set, since all 11 tracks cut during this session consist of Walker alone at the piano, idiosyncratically playing a wide variety of originals, standards, and Ray Charles tunes. Although this all sounds of a piece -- that is, terrific late-night blues -- ...   [ read more ]

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By late 1950 T-Bone Walker was singing at times more like an R&B crooner in the manner of Bull Moose Jackson. Everything on this volume in the Classics T-Bone chronology was originally issued on the Imperial label, and legend has it these stylized performances didn't go over as well with the public as had his Black & White recordings from a few years earlier. Here the arrangements call for a trumpet and sax section behind the vocalist. The material recorded in August 1951 is tougher an...   [ read more ]

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