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Electronic / avant-garde music pioneer and founder of the French musique concrète movement, Pierre Schaeffer, a radio engineer, believed that any sound could be music, and was one of the first to experiment with tape looping, splicing and sampling. He was also one of the first to record music on magnetic tape. Drawing inspiration from the Italian Futurists, he emphasized the double meaning of the word 'play'; to play an instrument, and also to have fun and enjoy oneself. Pierre Henry, a classically trained musician, was one of Schaeffer's disciples and together they co-wrote the revolutionary "Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul", recorded in 1950. Despite its title, it is not a symphony in the classical sense, but a kind of suite divided into 12 movements. It is a musical collage featuring vocal fragments, that are at times recorded backwards, accelerated or repeated, and other sounds like whistles, footsteps, doors slamming, metallic sounds, and a prepared piano. However, what is important about this piece is not merely its intrinsic musical value, but its influence on so many future generations of musicians in so many genres. "Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul", over half a century later, remains a pioneering experiment in the search for new aural horizons.
The great Chicago bluesman Willie Dixon knew raw talent when he saw it, and he saw it in the 20-year-old southpaw guitarist from Mississippi, Otis Rush. Thanks to Dixon, Rush was soon cutting singles for the Chicago-based Cobra Records, and in 1956 his first single, “I Can’t Quit You Baby”, shot to number 6 on the R&B charts. Over the next two years Rush released a total of eight singles for Cobra (all produced by Dixon), including masterpieces like “Double Trouble” (featuring Ike Turner on guitar), “Keep On Loving Me Baby” and “All Your Love (I Miss Loving)”, inventing Chicago’s West Side blues style (along with Magic Sam and Buddy Guy) along the way. These eight singles, collected here, represent one of the most outstanding moments in Chicago blues.
TRACK LISTING
1) Can't Quit You Baby
2) Sit Down Baby
3) My Love Will Never Die
4) Violent Love
5) Groaning The Blues
6) If You Were Mine
7) Love That Woman
8) Jump Sister Bessie
9) Three Times A Fool
10) She's A Good 'Un
11) It Takes Time
12) Checking On My Baby
13) Double Trouble
14) Keep On Loving Me Baby
15) All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
16) My Baby's A Good 'Un
When this album was recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960, Nina Simone had just had her first Top 20 hit with "I Loves You, Porgy", but the "Porgy" found here (written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, most famous for "I Can't Give You Anything But Love") is actually a continuation of Gershwin's original version of the story. Other highlights include "Flo Me La", an African work chant, and "Little Liza Jane", an African American folk song.
TRACK LISTING
Side A:
1. Trouble In Mind
2.Porgy
3.Little Liza Jane
4.You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Side B:
1. Flo Me La
2. Nina's Blues
3. In The Evening By The Moonlight