Little Walter - Marion Walter Jacobs リトル・ウォルターモバイル

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私は高校1年生の時にﾘﾄﾙｳｫﾙﾀｰのKEY TO THE HIGHWAYに出会い凄い衝撃を受けました。それ以降、様々なBLUESを聞きましたが、この人ほど衝撃を受けたBLUES MANは未だいません。また、彼はﾊｰﾓﾆｶのﾃｸﾆｯｸが凄いだけでなく、それ以上に歌唱力や音(高,長,強,音色)に対するｾﾝｽがずば抜けて凄いのです。このｱﾙﾊﾞﾑに収録されているMY BABE,YOU'RE SO FINE,YOU BETTER WATCH YOURSELF等は、どのBLUES MANにも真似の出来ないPOP･JAMP･SWING感覚に溢れています。

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春風吹くようにスウィングする好盤。63年の代表作。コールズは様々な形式のジャズに携わった為か、とりわけ表現力が高い。酸いも甘いも
知っている。ピアソン、ジョーヘン、ラロカあたりは創作姿勢こそ特別だが演奏は素直に楽しい。ジャズ通ではない層にも訴えれる一枚。

Little Walter - Marion Walter Jacobs

Harmonica virtuoso Little Walter was a key contributor to bluesman Muddy Waters' music through most of the 1950s. Both as a sideman and bandleader, Little Walter revolutionized the sound of blues harmonica through amplification, clasping a mike to the harp as he played. While he may not have been the first bluesman to play amplified harmonica, he explored its possibilities most fully. He was inarguably a musical genius. Little Walter could make an inexpensive, portable "mouth organ" moan and roar like a full horn section or produce an unearthly, haunting wail. Moreover, he was a tasteful and sympathetic accompanist. As journalist Robert Palmer wrote of Little Walter's contribution to Waters' music, "The harp lines wrapped themselves around Muddy's vocals, now chording like an organ, now filling melodically like a horn." Little Walter was born Marion Walter Jacobs in rural Louisiana. Little Walter made his way north to Chicago via stops in New Orleans and Monroe, Louisiana; St. Helena, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; and St. Louis, Missouri, arriving in the Windy City in 1947. That same year, he made his first recordings for the local Ora Nelle label. Little Walter and Muddy Waters first appeared on a session together when both backed Jimmy Rogers in 1949. Waters backed Little Walter on a session for Parkway Records in January 1950. That August, Little Walter first backed Muddy for the Chess label, and in October, they recorded the Waters classic "Louisiana Blues." Nearly a ...