Jump Blues: Best Sellers

A mix of soul and blues from her last sessions is sung with despair. ~ Richard Pack, All Music Guide

During an era when Big Joe Turner recordings were often surprise hits with rock & roll fans (particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll"), he occasionally recorded no-nonsense [more]

The 56 cuts collected on this JSP set contain all but a few of Louis Jordan's singles and albums recorded for Decca, Aladdin, RCA's "X" imprint, and Mercury between 1953 and [more]

A reunion of sorts with McShann, with whom Witherspoon had sung for four years in the late '40s. A relaxed, swinging set that bisects jazz and blues, it [more]

Founded in 1945 in Nashville by Jim Bulliet, Wally Fowler, and C.V. Hitchcock, Bullet Records was one of the most successful independent record labels in the [more]

Few artists in the history of recorded music have made alcoholism seem quite as appealing as Amos Milburn did on his run of hits for Aladdin Records in the [more]

Dinah Washington's digital discography is riddled with compilations that brandish the word "Gold," as in "Golden Classics," "Golden Hits," "Golden Songs," "Golden Greats," "Golden Stars," [more]

This is a righteous 21-track collection culled from the Rhino triple-disc set issued in the 1990s. Certainly all the well-known singles are here, such as "Shake, Rattle and [more]

Unlike his previous recordings on the Decca label, Louis Jordan's successful run on the charts was over by the time he began recording for Aladdin X and Vix between [more]

Benny Carter had already been a major jazz musician for nearly 30 years when he recorded this particularly strong septet session for Contemporary. With notable contributions from tenor [more]