Track Listing

1. Jimmy's Blues
2. Take Me Back, Baby
3. Harvard Blues
4. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
5. One-Two-Three-O'Lairy
6. Rusty Dusty Blues
7. For the Good of Your Country
8. Lose the Blackout Blues
9. Undecided Blues
10. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
11. Goin' to Chicago Blues
12. It's the Same Old South
13. I Left My Baby
14. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
15. How Long Blues
16. You Can Depend on Me
17. Baby, Don't Tell on Me
18. Blues I Like to Hear
19. Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
20. Evil Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #161497 in Music
• Released on: 1999-02-09
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

More than a blues singer
Sorry young man, Jimmy didn't play sax. Back before basie, before Moten Jimmy played a bit of Piano in LA clubs before he ever sang. He must have rocked that box as the saying goes.

Jimme shines as a blues singer, but he never saw himself chiefly as a blues singer. That found him. In fact, when Billie Holiday left the Basie band--some say she was chased out by John Hammond but that's another story--Jimmie protested that they didnt need to add another singer. He was all they needed because he saw himself as a ballad singer.

This CD covers his recordings with the Basie Orchestra during the years Basie was signed with Columbia and its subsidiary Brunswick. There is of course the great blues at which he has no competition, not even from the great Joe Turner in regard to swinging a band. But I love the ballads and satirical songs. "It's the Same Old South" is worth the whole album, a more or less funny protest song standing up for Black rights and the CIO.

What I think Jimmy had that none of the other blues shouters had was a musical nature. He was more than just loud sound and rhythm. He approached the blues and the ballads as a musician. What a powerful voice he had. And how he could swing. With all his size, do you know that Jimmy was renown as a dancer. I've seen him move and swing in movies, and what glory, what soul, what music!

I have heard Jimmy Rushing swing a whole big band. I have heard him swing me. This will swing you.

Do you want to jump children?
Nobody sings the word BABY like Rushing does! Basie and Rushing made many great recordings together and most of them are here. Blues, pop tunes, it didn't matter. Rushing could make any song sound great.And it didn't hurt having the best bluesy big band in the history of jazz backing him up. Wonderfull music.

Jimmy Rushing
Jimmy is a good sax man and a evean better singer. I am doing a report on him and i am glad i chose him. If you don't belive me listen to him!