Jimmy Witherspoon
A quintessential blues shouter in the tradition of Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Witherspoon got his start like many urban blues singers, fronting for jump blues and swing bands in the 1940s. By the late '50s, Witherspoon had started collaborating with more straightforward jazz musicians such as Richard "Groove" Holmes, Earl Hines, and Roy Eldridge. This combination of blues grit and jazz sophistication resulted in a highly influential hybrid embraced by many soul vocalists that emerged after Witherspoon. He succumbed to throat cancer in 1997 at the age of 77.
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Albums
- (2008) Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival, 1972
- (2007) Evenin' Blues
- (2007) Baby, Baby, Baby
- (2007) Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues
- (2007) Blues For Easy Livers
- (2007) Blue Spoon/Spoon In London
- (2007) The Concerts
- (2007) Jazz Me Blues: The Best Of Jimmy Witherspoon
- (2007) Rockin' L.A.
- (2007) Blues Around The Clock
- (2005) Hey, Mrs. Jones
- (2005) 'Spoon
- (1997) Nobody's Business
- (1990) Ain't Nobody's Business
Top Tracks
- Ain't Nobody's Business
- Blues In The Night
- Big Boss Man
- Embraceable You
- Drinking Beer
Related Artists
- Big Joe Turner
- Wynonie Harris
- T-Bone Walker
- Amos Milburn
- Jay McShann
- Jimmy Rushing
- Dinah Washington
- Louis Jordan
- Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
- Big Jay McNeely
- Cab Calloway
- Slim Gaillard
- Roy Brown
- Lionel Hampton
- Ruth Brown
- Joe Turner
- Charles Brown
- Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
- Nat King Cole
- J.B. Lenoir
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