AVID Jazz presents two classic Joe Turner albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. “The Boss of the Blues”; “Joe Turner & Pete Johnson”; plus 10 Alternate takes from “The Boss of the Blues”, Newport 1958 performances with the Newport (all star) Blues Band and other Joe Turner & Pete Johnson singles from 1945-47. Some quotes from the original liner notes:- “One of the most durable of the great blues shouters is Joe Turner”. “Joe Turner is one of the few artists who have managed with consummate success to bridge the ever widening gap between jazz and what was once called race and is now known as rhythm and blues”. “Of all the performers in the R&B category, he is among the very small minority to have earned the interest and respect of the cognoscenti who take their jazz seriously.” “Pete Johnson, Joe’s partner on some of these numbers is also a native of Kansas City…..he made records with Harry James…..and for several years teamed up with Albert Ammons in a two piano act”. “Pete’s authoritative, vigorous style in the boogie woogie piano idiom earned him recognition as one of the three top exponents of the eight –to- the- bar art, along with Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis”. Both albums plus have been digitally re-mastered
CD1 1-10: ‘The Boss Of The Blues’ 1. Cherry Red 2. Roll ‘Em Pete 3. I Want A Little Girl 4. Low Down Dog 5. Wee Baby Blues 6. You’re Driving Me Crazy 7. How Long Blues 8. Morning Glories 9. St. Louis Blues 10. Piney Brown Blues 11-20: ‘Alternate Takes: The Boss Of The Blues’ 11. Cherry Red (take 3) 12. Roll ‘Em Pete (take 5) 13. I Want A Little Girl (take 1) 14. Low Down Dog (take 4) 15. You’re Driving Me Crazy (take 1) 16. Morning Glories (take 4) 17. St. Louis Blues (take 1) 18. Cherry Red (take 1) 19. Roll ‘Em Pete (take 4) 20. Morning Glories (take 1)
CD2 1-19: Joe Turner & Pete Johnson and other 1945-47 singles 1. S.K. Blues parts 1 & 2 2. Johnson And Turner Blues 3. Watch That Jive 4. Howling Winds 5. Doggin’ The Blues 6. I’m Still In The Dark 7. Miss Brown Blues 8. Milk And Butter Blues 9. That’s When It Really Hurts 10. I’m Sharp When I Hit The Coast 11. Wee Baby Blues 12. Nobody In Mind 13. Lucille, Lucille 14. Rocks In My Bed 15. Careless Love 16. Last Goodbye Blues 17. Whistle Stop Blues 18. Hollywood Bed 19. Howlin’ Winds 20. Pete’s Boogie from Newport 1958 21. Introductions by Willis Conover from Newport 1958 22. Feeling Happy from Newport 1958 23. Corrina Corrina from Newport 1958 24. Honey Hush from Newport 1958
