Blues & Ballads
Editorial Reviews
<"b000000xxz7499"> Amazon.com
This beautiful album was engineered by Rudy Van Gelder in his Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home studio where so much jazz history was made. It features guitar innovators Lonnie Johnson and Elmer Snowden together for the first time--despite a friendship going back to the 1920s when both appeared on some of the earliest jazz and blues 78s. Johnson, the father of single-note six-string soloing, is in marvelous voice on this selection of blues, ballads, and jazz, crooning the double-entendre "Jelly Roll Baker" and the heartache-laden "Back Water Blues" (a Bessie Smith tune he first cut in 1927) with a marksman's sense of pitch and chilling nuance. Snowden serves mostly as accompanist. But these men play so closely that they seem to be sharing every breath. --Ted Drozdowski --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Blues & Ballads, Music, Lonnie Johnson w, Elmer Snowden, Acoustic Blues, Blues, Country Blues, Jazz Blues, Pop, United States of America
Music:
Recommended Music:
Never Enough [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
The Wonders Of Opera, Vol. 1-4 [Box set]
Un Violoncello Venuto dal Freddo
Trespass [Explicit Lyrics] [Soundtrack]
When a Child Is Born: Gospel Christmas
Tournado: Tangerine Dream Live [Live] [Original recording remastered]