Little Willie Jackson - Jazz Me Blues 1947

Willie Jackson was a multi-talented blind musician who sang and played alto, tenor and baritone saxophone. He was featured on Joe Liggins' million selling R&B classic The Honeydripper.

Liggins and Jackson had started working together in the mid 1930s as members of the resident jazz band at the Creole Palace, a hot San Diego night spot. By 1940, both musicians had moved north to Los Angeles to join that city's thriving music scene. In 1944 they got back together to form their own group and a year later recorded the seminal The Honeydripper Pts 1 & 2 which went on to become the biggest selling R&B record of 1945.

Here you have 24 classic recordings from the late 1940s, half of them previously unissued, all transferred with loving care from the original master lacquers. (acerecords.co.uk)

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Little Willie Jackson & The Original Honeydrippers - Jazz Me Blues 1947
- The Legendary Modern Recordings
(Ace Records London 2000)

1. Watts Local
2. Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night
3. Jackson's Boogie
4. I Ain't Got Nobody
5. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
6. FST
7. Black And Blue
8. The Peanut Vendor
9. Someday, Somehow, Somewhere
10. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
11. Let's Jump
12. Muddy Water
13. Little Willie's Boogie
14. You Can Depend On Me
15. 58th Street Jump
16. There'll Be Some Changes Made
17. Baby
18. Shasta
19. St. Louis Blues
20. My Baby's Blues
21. St. Louis Blues (alternate take)
22. The Peanut Vendor (alternate take)
23. Jackson's Boogie (alternate take)
24. Muddy Water (alternate take)