viernes, 23 de octubre de 2009

Eddie "Cleanhead" VINSON - Mr Cleanhead Steps Out 1985


Eddie "Cleanhead" VINSON - Mr Cleanhead Steps Out 1985

Jazz

An advanced stylist on alto saxophone who vacillated throughout his career between jump blues and jazz, bald-pated Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (he lost his hair early on after a botched bout with a lye-based hair-straightener) also possessed a playfully distinctive vocal delivery that stood him in good stead with blues fans. Vinson first picked up a horn while attending high school in Houston. During the late '30s, he was a member of an incredible horn section in Milton Larkins's orchestra, sitting next to Arnett Cobb and Illinois Jacquet. After exiting Larkins' employ in 1941, Vinson picked up a few vocal tricks while on tour with bluesman Big Bill Broonzy. Vinson joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra from 1942 to 1945. His vocals on trumpeter Williams' renditions of "Cherry Red" and "Somebody's Got to Go" were in large part responsible for their wartime hit status. Vinson struck out on his own in 1945, forming his own large band, signing with Mercury, and enjoying a double-sided smash in 1947 with his romping R&B chart-topper "Old Maid Boogie" and the song that would prove his signature number, "Kidney Stew Blues" (both songs featured Vinson's instantly identifiable vocals). A 1949-1952 stint at King Records produced only one hit, the amusing sequel "Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red," along with the classic blues "Person to Person" (later revived by another King artist, Little Willie John). Vinson's jazz leanings were probably heightened during 1952-1953, when his band included a young John Coltrane. Somewhere along about here, Vinson wrote two Miles Davis classics, "Tune Up" and "Four." Vinson steadfastly kept one foot in the blues camp and the other in jazz, waxing jumping R&B for Mercury (in 1954) and Bethlehem (1957), jazz for Riverside in 1961 (with Cannonball Adderley), and blues for Blues Time and ABC-BluesWay. A 1969 set for Black & Blue, cut in France with pianist Jay McShann and tenor saxophonist Hal Singer, beautifully recounted Vinson's blues shouting heyday (it's available on Delmark as Old Kidney Stew Is Fine). A much later set for Muse teamed him with the sympathetic little big-band approach of Rhode Island-based Roomful of Blues. Vinson toured the States and Europe frequently prior to his 1988 death of a heart attack.
By Bill Dahl, All Music Guide.
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There’s a fair bit of duplication between this 1985 vinyl LP on Mr R&B Records and my previous Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson post, “Primary Cuts”. Nevertheless it’s worth downloading for the unduplicated tracks which include some of his small group sides recorded for King. There's also sides recorded with the Cootie Williams Orchestra and Mr Cleanhead’s own big band. And that is indeed Mr Vinson himself crooning on “Time After Time”.
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01. Mr Cleanhead Steps Out
02. When My Baby Left Me
03. Juice Head Baby
04. Kidney Stew Blues
05. I've Been So Good
06. It's A Groovy Affair
07. Old Maid Boogie
08. Shavetail
09. Gonna Send You Back Where I Got You From
10. Luxury Tax Blues
11. Wrong Girl Blues
12. Friday Fish Fry
13. I Took The Front Door In
14. Home Boy
15. Eddie's Bounce
16. Time After Time
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