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CD Reviews - 7 Can’t wait to present the Delmark debut of the talented blues chanteuse, Grana’ Louise, the winner of the 2009 Windy City Blues Society Best Blues Band Challenge. This studio Umbrella Fest - 9 and live recording, Getting’ Kinda Rough, features her standout lead guitarist, Tom Holland, who also bends the strings with the one and only , in addition to leading his own band! Jazzman Book Review - 11 For you old time blues piano fans, we are pleased to unearth some rare blues piano rolls from the ‘20’s from Clarence “Jelly” Johnson, Low Downn Papa. We also have the exciting news Record Collecting - 11 that and his New Horizons Ensemble, featuring the world renowned jazz guitarist Jeff Paker, return to Delmark with their 5th CD. The Prairie Prophet is all original Jazz & Blues DVDs - 14 compositions from this long time Chicago jazz saxophone veteran, Dawkins, one of the influential leaders of the Chicago AACM, , and creative jazz scenes. The Chicago AACM Top 10 Lists -17 just celebrated their 45th Anniversary with a big featuring Delmark artists Ernest Dawkins, Nicole Mitchell, , , , and more! CD Specials - 19 A big congrats goes out to the hard working and talented Heat for winning the recent 2010 BLUES BLAST National Music Awards for Best Traditional Blues CD of the year for Holiday Music -23 their acclaimed Delmark CD, Let’s Live It Up! I think the Heat defies category - traditional blues with a unique, contemporary sound! We had a blast at the show with Delmark artists Eddie Cassette Specials - 24 Shaw, , Quintus McCormick, and of course, , Inetta, and and the rest of the Heat all putting in wonderful performances for the entertained Out-of-Print LP List -26 crowd at the new ’s Legends. The Heat’s producer Michael Freeman also won the prestigious 2010 Keeping the Blues Alive award (KBA) for his long time excellent blues Delmark CD Specials - 30 production work, including ’s on Delmark and & Willie “Big Eyes” Smith’s recent recording on Telarc. Delmark Catalog - 36 Speaking of the legendary bluesmen, Pinetop and Big Eyes - they were both in the Riverside studio at Delmark for a special recording that will be released next year on Delmark Other Formats - 38 star Chris Harper’s Swississippi . The incredible Pinetop will be turning 98 years young in 2011. “I’m gonna go for a puff, I’m tough, and that ain’t no bluff” Pinetop said to me with Order Form - 39 a sparkle in his eye as he pulled out a Kool cigarette; that’s your next hit song, Pinetop! Delmark’s Riverside is also set for a studio recording session for Quintus McCormick in Jazz & Blues T-Shirts - 40 anticipation for his follow-up recording after his wildly popular Delmark debut, Hey Jodie! Look for a eagerly awaited follow up for Eddie C. Campbell in 2011, too! phone: 1-800-684-3480 We had a blast at the recent “Wolf vs. Muddy” throwdown with Tail Dragger vs Willie Buck Hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 8pm show at Rosa’s Lounge. This special traditional show is getting harder to find in Chicago, and was a great night, packed with fans eager for the old school sounds! This night Saturday 10am - 8pm also featured special guest with a killer mini set, in a raw, stripped down blues trio Sunday Noon - 5pm with unsung bass legend Bernard Reed, with Syl’s guitar work particularly standing out, in addition to his spine tingling vocals! Syl will be celebrating his new box set (4CD/6LP!) on the Rhythm & News local musical treasure hunting NUMERO record label with a big party at the Old Town School of Publisher - Robert G. Koester Folk Music, complete with a 17 piece big band with special guests and Jackie Ross. 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In 1966, Junior Wells was at something of a turning point. He’d begun his professional music career fifteen or so years earlier, and enjoyed some early attention as a member of Muddy Waters’ Reaction Report prestigious band, then via his own recordings for the States label - both endeavors now counted among the highpoints of the classic Chicago blues era. As the ‘50s waned and the ‘60s dawned, he’d rolled with the musical punches, and adapted his style to the more pop and soul-oriented sounds then Louis Myer’s guitar is on the nail, emanating from the black Chicago music scene. In 1965, he recorded the groundbreaking Delmark while Wells is vocally beseeching; with help from a young Buddy Guy, and began crossing over to younger, his harmonica proves just how whiter audience with his mixture of deep blues feeling and contemporary funkiness. Behind him, a scintillating that modest instrument legacy of classic blues rooted equally in the southern traditions of Junior Parker, Sonny Boy Williamson can be. it’s no hype to rank him II, and the gritty urban sounds of Muddy Waters, and others. In front of him was a doorway alongside the two Sonny Boys, Little into funk, soul, and slick horn-laden R&B, already ajar and just waiting for him to push through. Walter, Walter Horton and George So when he went to play Boston in September of 1966, it would have been completely natural for Smith.” -All About Jazz him to bring along some of his regular working Chicago crew, which at the time might have included Buddy Guy, bassist Jack Myers, and drummer Bill Warren among the flexible lineup. Instead, Junior “An unreleased gem of a live reached back instead of looking forward, and brought along the band that he’d begun his career with c. 1950, The Aces - brothers Dave and Louis Myers, and drummer Fred Below. This was the band that performance “Live in Boston 1966” had shaken things up as young men in Chicago back in the early ‘50s, adding an undeniable swing to provides the blues fan with a vintage the downhome blues of their elders. It was with Junior up front that they’d first become a force to be recording of the legendary Junior reckoned with; it was the fact that they were already pushing the blues envelope and bringing the Wells backed by a top-notch R & B music to a younger, hipper audience that inspired Little Walter to hire them intact as his first band (and outfit in the Aces, both the artist and send Junior to Muddy) in 1952. In an interview many years later, when asked to name his favorites the band kicking out jams with from among all the many musicians he’d worked with over the years, he replied “The Aces” - not a vitality and energy.” cherry-picked list of all-time MVPs filling each position, but instead the single group that had defined -About.com:blues the blues ensemble style that Junior had cut his teeth on at the beginning of his career. This Boston show shows Junior well into his comfort zone, obviously feeling good, bantering with “...a wonderful look into the music of the audience, joking and clowning, but not neglecting to get down to some serious blues as well. He’s an important blues legend and shows at ease enough with The Aces to go off into some obviously improvised, spur of the moment us just how versatile, unique, and excursions, ad-libbing lyrics and themes, riding the groove and going with the musical flow as he puts creative a showman Junior Wells on a show that may have been a little different from his typical south side club dates (listen to his more Blues Underground Network serious and sedate live recordings at Pepper’s Lounge in Chicago from the “It’s My Life Baby” LP from was.” - the following year for contrast). His performance here is extroverted and playful, and in some ways more intense, as he digs into his early influences as well as more recent developments on the blues ‘Wells’ vocals brings the blues with scene. a soulful lilt, and it’s a perfect match As the set progresses, Junior becomes more adventurous, and veers away from familiar territory to the heavy-swinging sound of the into spur-of-the moment areas; especially notable are a few tracks that seem to be improvised on the backing band. . . Almost always in spot. “Junior’s Whoop” starts like an homage to Little Walter’s “Mellow Down Easy”, but evolves into this hour-long set, they hit all their a rocking vehicle for wonderful extended solos from Junior and guitarist Louis Myers. “If You Gonna marks in perfect sync.” Leave Me” and “I Don’t Know” sound like they’re both assembled on the spot from spare parts Junior -Black Grooves had left over or half-remembered from other songs, and it’s a credit to his amazing skills as a performer and the force of his personality that he makes them both sound fresh and complete. It’s this same “Junior was not only a great singer charisma that breathes life and excitement into even the most familiar titles - which certainly weren’t and harmonica player, he was also as well known outside Junior’s milieu as they are now. one of the great characters of blues Hearing these live recordings, it’s hard to believe Junior has been gone going on fifteen years music, and this recording captures now. The sheer power of his personality comes through on every track, and on the entertaining each of the aspects that made him between-songs patter included here as well, which provides a valuable insight into just how dynamic great. . . that certain something that and personable a performer he was in his prime. Junior Wells was a little guy, but his outsize persona loomed large over the Chicago blues landscape during his time, and continues to cast a shadow today. grabs you by the throat and forces Be thankful to the blues gods that this important, valuable, and most importantly, enormously you to pay attention to him.” entertaining document of one of the key figures in Chicago blues history survived and is available for -Blogcritcs us to enjoy right now. -Scott Dirks, August 2010 5 NEW from – 4 CDs of LIVE music from the Les Tompkins Archives!

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9 JUNIOR WELLS & THE ACES Live In Boston 1966 (DELMARK CD 809) This live recording takes us back to just a few months after the release of the legendary Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark 612) album. Junior is accompanied by the Aces—Louis Myers, guitar; Dave Myers, bass; Fred Below, drums. Eleven songs and great bits between Junior and the audience in between songs comes to over 65 minutes of pure blues delight. “I Wanna Boogie”, “Messin’ With The Kid”, “Man Downstairs”, “Worried Life Blues”, “Hideaway”, “That’s All Right”, “Look On Yonder’s Wall”, “Got My Mojo Workin’” and more. Also available: Live at Theresa’s 1975 (Delmark787), Southside Blues Jam (628), On Tap (635), DELUXE Blues Hit Big Town (640). CD: 0-38153-0809-2-1 DIGIPAK CD! $14.99 EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA each Stars Have Shapes (DELMARK CD 806) Jazz cornetist has created a sound world that is uniquely his own, sculpting a TOTAL sound environment, by fully utilizing the beautiful instrumentation of the Exploding Star Orchestra and sounds from a variety of sources, including: rain from the Brazilian Amazon, insects at the turn of an eclipse, the hammering overdrive of bicycles in Copenhagen, stacked muted cornets run through various filters, drones built from electric eels and piano feedback, hi-frequency sinuous lines from tone generators, pitched bass guitars, and other prepared instruments. With Nicole Mitchell, , Greg Ward, Josh AVAILABLE ON DIGIPAK CD Abrams, Mike Reed... “Ascension Ghost Impression #2”, “Chromo Rocker”, “Three Blocks of Light” (extended & LP! on CD version) and “Impression #1” (CD only). Also available: Rob Mazurek Quintet, Sound Is (586); Chicago Underground Trio, Chronicle (DVD 1573, CD 573). CD: 0-38153-0595-2-1 LP: 0-38153-0595-1-4

CHESTRA JASON ADASIEWICZ Sun Rooms (DELMARK CD 593) Features Jason on vibraphone, Mike Reed on drums, and Nate McBride on bass. This Chicago jazz trio formed in 2008, first experimenting as a free improvising trio, and later focused attention on arranging tunes that Adasiewicz wrote during his wife’sfirst pregnancy in the summer of 2009. In addition, the trio plays homage to , Duke Ellington, and Hasaan Ibn Ali—a pianist that was only documented once in his life, in 1964 with Max Roach. Sun Rooms is Adasiewicz’s first release on Delmark as a leader, but he is not a stranger to the label. He is currently a member of bands lead by Josh Berman, Rob Mazurek, and Nicole Mitchell. “Adasiewicz has a tone and sense of phrasing that is unlike anyone on the instrument currently active, his sense of melody wistful and attack pelting with equal parts Milt Jackson and Khan Jamal.” —The Austinist CD: 0-38153-0593-2-3

BRAD GOODE Tight Like This (DELMARK DE 594) Jazz trumpeter Brad Goode is back with his fourth Delmark CD, Tight Like This (yes, the same “Tight Like This” recorded by Louis Armstrong’s Hot 5). He is accompanied by Adrean Farrugia, piano; Kelly Sill, bass; Anthony Lee, drums. A review of Brad’s prior Delmark CD said: “Goode’scommand of the trumpet allows for plenty of risk-taking moments, drenched with technical astonishment and raw emotion. With an abundance of melodic ideas, the Chicago native walks a musical tightrope, creating a rush of improvised suspense. His free-flowing approach, most notably on ‘I Remember You’ and ‘No Idea’, is playful and refreshingly unsentimen- tal. Nature Boy (Delmark 578) emphasizes everything genuine going on in jazz today. Goode and company areperforming at an incomparable level, at once virtuosic and innovative.” —John Barron, All About Jazz Also available: Hypnotic Suggestion (567), Shock Of The New (440). CD: 0-38153-0594-2-2

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