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Johnny Otis 1945-1947(2002)(Full album)

Tracklist 00:00 1 My Baby's Business Jimmy Rushing Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 03:04 2 Preston Love's Mansion Johnny Otis / Pope Otis Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 06:11 3 Jimmy's Round-the-Clock Blues Jimmy Rushing Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 09:22 4 Harlem Nocturne Earle H. Hagen Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 12:24 5 Omaha Flash Bill Doggett / Johnny Otis Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 15:05 6 Jeff-Hi Stomp Count Basie Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 18:14 7 Miss Mitchell Johnny Otis / Pope Otis / Kent Pope Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 21:34 8 Ultra-Violet Lester Current / Johnny Otis / Pope Otis Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 24:46 9 Sgt. Barksdale, Pt. 1 Dicky Wells Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 27:44 10 Sgt. Barksdale, Pt. 2 Dicky Wells Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 30:36 11 Love's Nocturne Bill Doggett Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 33:53 12 Good Boogie Googie Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 36:42 13 Midnight in the Barrelhouse Johnny Otis Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 39:47 14 Barrelhouse Stomp Johnny Otis Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 42:34 15 Alimony Boogie Cathy Cooper / Johnny Otis / Otis Rene Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 45:48 16 Hog Jaws Johnny Otis Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 48:22 17 My Baby Done Told Me Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 50:57 18 Court Room Blues Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 53:52 19 The Jelly Roll Otis Rene / Leon René Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 56:49 20 Pay Day Blues Bardu Ali / Johnny Otis / Pope Otis Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra 59:57 21 Happy New Year, Baby Johnny Otis / Pope Otis / Henri René Johnny Otis feat: Johnny Otis & His Orchestra Label: Classics – CLASSICS 5027 Series: Blues & Rhythm Series – 5027 Country: France Released: 2002 Genre: Funk / Soul, Blues Style: Rhythm & Blues, Jump Blues 1945-1947 Review by arwulf arwulf Growing up among Afro-Americans in Berkeley, CA, Greek-American Johnny Otis (born John Veliotes) always identified strongly with people of color. Before he had attained the age of 20 he was gigging with black jazz bands throughout the Southwest, and eventually organized an ensemble deliberately patterned after Count Basie's orchestra. This highly charged album of historical musical artifacts documents the very beginning of Johnny Otis' recording career. With one apparently unobtainable exception, the Classics Blues & Rhythm Series has assembled all of Otis' Excelsior recordings, made in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1947. This provides background and context for his more well-known Savoy material, and indeed for everything this amazing person accomplished during the second half of the 20th century. Otis' first act as a recording bandleader was to borrow Jimmy Rushing from Count Basie! Rushing sounds right at home with this group, which included tenor saxophonist Paul Quinichette, pianist Bill Doggett, and bassist Curtis Counce. During "Preston's Love Mansion," as Doggett quotes the famous riff from Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts," the band hollers "Johnny Otis!" instead. And well they might, for during this exciting number and indeed most of the performances throughout this collection, Otis handles his drums with energetic insistence, "dropping bombs" and provocatively stirring the mix. This band was billed at first, in fact, as "Johnny Otis, His Drums & His Orchestra." "Harlem Nocturne" was a success from the get-go, both this Excelsior version and an alternate take that was issued several years later on Savoy. "Love's Nocturne," from December of 1946, sounds like its sequel. According to the discography, alto saxophonist Preston Love only blows his horn on this session, alongside the great Buddy Collette. Big stylistic changes erupted in 1947 as Johnny Otis & His Orchestra suddenly sprouted a twangy electric guitar, played by one Pete Lewis. "Barrelhouse Stomp" is the hottest number in the whole package, with tenor saxophonist Big Jay McNeely wailing like a fiend as the band boils over. A cool vocal group calling itself the Four Bluebirds, heard here singing "My Baby Done Told Me," would later become famous as the Robins. "Alimony Boogie" and "Courtroom Blues" (during which "judge" Darby Hicks talks a little like Pigmeat Markham while playing the hell out of the piano) introduce a humorous topical theater formula that would soon become one of this band's specialties. Altogether a fascinating historical reissue guaranteed to inform and entertain. Give it a like if you liked it, a hug...