JIMMY RUSHING - Four Classic Albums Plus (Jimmy Rushing And The Smith Girls / The Jazz Odyssey Of James Rushing Esq / Little Jimmy Rushing And The Big Brass / Brubeck & Rushing)
AVID Jazz here presents four classic Jimmy Rushing albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. “Jimmy Rushing And The Smith Girls”; “The Jazz Odyssey Of Jimmy Rushing Esq.”; “Little Jimmy Rushing And The Big Brass”; “Brubeck & Rushing”; “Sound of Jazz (extract); “The Way I Feel” (E.P) “Jimmy Rushing And The Smith Girls”…………..Blues singer and shouter Jimmy Rushing opens our tribute set to him with his own tribute to four famous lady Smiths!! Bessie, Clara, Mamie and Trixie. “The Jazz Odyssey Of Jimmy Rushing Esq”…………On this 1956 recording with the Buck Clayton Orchestra, Mr. Rushing gives us some of the songs which he associates with four great American cities namely New Orleans, Kansas City, Chicago and New York. “Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass………..this hard to find album sees Jimmy back in the Columbia studios for a session of swing with a carefully chosen band around him and a dozen songs that swing and three arrangers who all know what the big man likes! As you will hear and as Jimmy himself knew only too well- only with a big band he is really at his best! “Brubeck & Rushing”……….. “everybody swings as Dave and Jimmy bring out the best in each other”. This unusual and surprising collaboration instigated in the main by Jimmy himself works amazingly well because Jimmy told Dave it would! Take a listen and we think he was right! Joined by Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello this is a truly spontaneous explosion of jazz! All four albums plus have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest ever sound quality!
CD1 1-10: ‘Jimmy Rushing And The Smith Girls’ 1. Arkansas Blues 2. Down Hearted Blues 3. How Come You Do Me Like You Do 4. Crazy Blues 5. Squeeze Me 6. Trouble In Mind 7. Muddy Water 8. Gulf Coast Blues 9. Everybody Loves My Baby 10. Shipwrecked Blues 11-22: ‘The Jazz Odyssey Of James Rushing Esq’ 11. New Orleans 12. Tricks Ain’t Walkin’ No More 13. Baby Won’t You Please Come Home 14. Piney Brown Blues 15. ‘Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-Ness If I Do 16. I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 17. Careless Love 18. Doctor Blues 19. Rosetta 20. Lullaby Of Broadway 21. Old Fashioned Love 22. Some Of These Days 23. I Left My Baby from The Sound Of Jazz 24. Where Were You from The Way I Feel
CD2 1-12: ‘Little Jimmy Rushing And The Big Brass’ 1. I’m Coming Virginia 2. Knock Me A Kiss 3. Harvard Blues 4. Mister Five By Five 5. Trav’lin’ Light 6. June Night 7. It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie 8. Rosalie 9. Jimmy’s Blues 10. Someday Sweetheart 11. When You’re Smiling 12. Somebody Stole My Gal 13-22: ‘Brubeck & Rushing’ 13. There’ll Be Some Changes Made 14. My Melancholy Baby 15. Blues In The Dark 16. I Never Knew 17. Ain’t Misbehavin’ 18. Evenin’ 19. All By Myself 20. River, Stay ‘Way From My Door 21. You Can Depend On Me 22. Am I Blue 23. Go Get Some More, You Fool from The Way I Feel 24. Hi-O-Sylvester from The Way I Feel 25. The Way I Feel from The Way I Feel
