Chicago - The Blues Yesterday Vol. 16

01. Teenage hop

Tall Paul Hankins – piano
Eddie C. Campbell – guitar
A.C. Reed – tenor saxophone
Jack Myers – bass
Odie Payne – drums
Chicago, Ill. 1959

02. Joe's House Party I & II
03. Red Lips
04. It's you I'm going to miss

Tall Paul Hankins - organ 
Willie Hudson – guitar, vocals (4)
Bobby Hudson - bass 
Joe Hudson -  drums
 Chicago, Ill. 1964

05. The Turnpike
06. Saint James Infirmary
07. A touch of the blues
08. Hot Spot

Tall Paul Hankins - organ 
The Hot Peppers (band)
Chicago, Ill. 1965

09. My Boogaloo

Tall Paul Hankins - organ 
+ band
Chicago, Ill. 1966

10. Do the monkey with James
11. James out of sight
12. Goldfinger's got the blues
13. The James Bond Theme
14. James goes to Soulville

Perry & The Harmonics:
Clarence Perry – tenor saxophone 
Ed Townsend -  vocals, piano
Paul Pratt - guitar 
Richard Mc Crea - organ 
Maurice Wells – drums
Chicago, Ill. 1965

15. R&B Time I & II
16. Soul Heaven

E. Rodney Jones – vocals
+band
Chicago, Ill. 1965

17. Chicken on down
18. Football
19. Right on right on

E. Rodney Jones – vocals
Larry Blasingaine - guitar 
The Hippies (band) 
Chicago, Ill. 1970

20. The whole thing
21. Loose Booty

E. Rodney Jones – vocals
Willie Henderson – vocals
+ band
Chicago, Ill. june 1972

22. Enough for everybody
23. Gimme some of yours

Larry Blasingaine – guitar
The Hippies  (band)
Chicago, Ill. 1968

With this 16th opus of our Chicago/ The Blues Yesterday series, we are drifting a little bit outside the hardcore blues for those (still very bluesy) organ-piano-guitar-saxophone instrumentals between jazz, blues, Soul and early Funk which were so popular among the African-Americans during the 1960's.

"Tall" Paul Hankins (born 20th of March 1937 in Mobile, Alabama) is the keyboardist of numerous sessions, particularly behind Earl Hooker, Bobby Saxton, Lillian Offit, Freddy Robinson, etc... He also recorded a dozen titles under his name in a vein similar to Jimmy Smith or Mc Griff who were enjoying a lot of success at that time. Backing him on lead guitar, Willie Hudson is also featuring here singing a good blues. I still try to gather more infos on Hankins.

Perry & The Harmonics was a band formed by sax player Clarence Perry (who recorded with Roosevelt Sykes or Ella Fitzgerald) and singer/pianist Ed Townsend (1929-2003) better known as a producer, composer and A&R man at Mercury, Vee Jay, Capitol, Scepter for big names like Marvin Gaye, Etta James, Big Maybelle or Dee Dee Warwick. Their only album (a true "collector" never reissued) Intrigue with Soul from 1965 is entirely made of titles inspired by the James Bond films of the era (with Sean Connery) with the driving irresistible Do the Monkey with James. If we are featuring here the bluesiest tracks for this compilation, all the album is first rate and should please everyone with a taste for Jazz Soul.

E. Rodney Jones (1927-2004) was an actor (Mahogany, Three the hard way) and co-owner with Pervis Spann of the legendary Chicago club, The Burning Spear. Moreover he was a famous Chicago DJ on WVON radio station whose warm baritone voice, listeners' requests and his musical choices attracted strong audiences during more than a decade during the 1960's and 70's. Rodney Jones has also recorded a handful of singles under his name, gathering for the occasion some of the best young Chicago musicians, particularly the remarkable lead guitarist Larry Blasingaine who would record and tour with the Jackson Five, Jackie Wilson or The Emotions. --- Gérard Herzhaft, jukegh.blogspot.com

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