*** Master Blues Bassists Series #14*** by Rodrigo Mantovani скачать в хорошем качестве

*** Master Blues Bassists Series #14*** by Rodrigo Mantovani

" Violent Love " by The Big Three Trio *Bonus track: Big Three Stomp (Willie's solo) *********Willie Dixon*****( part 2 ) The other members of the Chicago-based quintet called the Five Breezes were Leonard Caston, Jimmy Gilmore, Joe Bell, and Willie Hawthorne. Their sound was patterned after the Ink Spots. They played at Martin’s Corner for more than a year until they were lured away by a couple of southside gangsters who had opened a strip club called the Pink Poodle. In 1940, Willie Dixon began receiving draft notices from the Selective Service, which had just established the first peacetime conscription in American history. He ignored the notices for two years but one night in 1942 when the Five Breezes were playing at the Pink Poodle federal agents entered the bar and pulled Dixon off the stage while he was playing bass. As they cuffed him, Dixon screamed that he was a conscientious objector and that he refused fight and kill other humans. He was taken to federal lockup and soon placed on trial. Dixon testified at court that he didn’t feel obligated to serve because of the conditions of black people in America. “Why should I go to work and fight to save somebody that’s killing me and my people?” He was sentenced to five years in federal prison. When Dixon began organizing other black prisoners to resist serving in the military, the authorities placed him in solitary confinement and restricted his diet to bread and water for weeks at a time. Willie was hauled before the court another twenty times. He was repeatedly chastised by the judge and threatened by prosecutors. But Dixon refused to serve. He became such a threat that the prison authorities offered to let him out of jail after 10 months if Dixon agreed to sign a document that kept him from performing or working at any government facility or contractor. After the war, he formed a group named the Four Jumps of Jive. The Four Jumps of Jive was a quartet formed by Willie Dixon in late 1945, with Gene Gilmore, Bernardo Dennis, and Ellis Hunter. Gilmore and Hunter left the group in 1946 and Leonard Caston -- an old friend of Dixon's -- came into the lineup, which was christened the Big Three Trio, making pretty much the same kind of music as the Four Jumps of Jive. Pianist Leonard " Baby Doo" Caston and guitarist Bernardo Dennis  (replaced after a year by OllieCrawford) joined Dixon to form the popular trio in 1946. Caston split at the end of 1952, effectively breaking up the trio. But Dixon's destiny was at Chess Records, where he was already making inroads as a session bassist and songwriter. By 1951, he was a full-time employee at Chess, where he acted as producer, talent scout, session musician and staff songwriter also producing for the Chess subsidiary label, the " Checker Records ". He stayed with the label from 1948 to the early 1960s. He emerged as the studio mastermind as a songwriter, producer, arranger, and bass player, Dixon shaped the sound of Chicago Blues in the 1950s and '60s with songs such as "Seventh Son"; "Little Red Rooster"; "Hoochie Coochie Man"; "My Babe," and "Wang Dang Doodle" and all the classics hits of Chicago Blues recorded by Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter, Koko Taylor, and many many others. Dixon played string bass in so many sessions, including the first hits by Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. He also produced the debut releases of Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, and Magic Sam on the Cobra and Artistic labels. From the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, Dixon ran his own record label, Yambo Records, and two subsidiary labels, Supreme and Spoonful. He released his 1971 album, "Peace?", on Yambo and also singles by McKinley Mitchell, Lucky Peterson and others. Dixon is considered one of the key figures in the creation of Chicago Blues and he also worked with Little Milton; Eddie Boyd; Jimmy Witherspoon; Lowell Fulson; Willie Mabon; Robert Nighthawk; Memphis Slim; Washboard Sam; Jimmy Rogers; Sam Lay; etc. In December 1964, the Rolling Stones reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart with their cover of Dixon's "Little Red Rooster". He subsequently toured and recorded several albums with his own band, the Chicago Blues All Stars. His achievements earned him induction into both the Rock and Roll and Blues Halls of Fame. In 1981, Dixon established the Blues Heaven Foundation to assist Blues musicians and sponsor Blues education programs. Dixon eventually began suffering from increasingly poor health, and lost a leg to diabetes. He died peacefully in his sleep early in January 29, 1992 in Burbank, California. After his death, his widow Marie and the Dixon family carried on his mission, and in 1997 they fulfilled a Dixon dream by purchasing the former Chess Records building in Chichouse Blues Heaven. Dixon is buried in Alsip, Illinois. Vicksburg honored its native son by renaming a street "Willie Dixon Way" in 2002. #williedixon #Bigthreetrio #ChicagoBlues #bassplayer #uprightbass #Blues