''Slim's Shout'' is an album by blues musician

Sunnyland Slim Albert Luandrew (September 5, 1906March 17, 1995), "Blues pianist and singer Sunnyland Slim was born Albert Luandrew in Vance, Mississippi, September 5, 1906 (most sources say 1907, but the Social Security Death Index and 1920 census data give t ...

recorded in 1960 and released on the Bluesville label the following year.Sunnyland Slim discography
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Reception

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reviewer Bill Dahl stated: "You wouldn't think that transporting one of Chicago's reigning piano patriarchs to Englewood Cliffs, NJ would produce such a fine album, but this 1960 set cooks from beginning to end. Sunnyland Slim's swinging New York rhythm section has no trouble following his bedrock piano, and the estimable King Curtis peels off diamond-hard tenor sax solos in the great Texas tradition that also mesh seamlessly".

Track listing

All compositions by Sunnyland Slim except where noted # "I'm Prison Bound" (

Brownie McGhee Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. Life and career McGhee was ...

) – 3:19 # "Slim's Shout" (Sunnyland Slim, Ozzie Cadena) – 3:46 # "The Devil Is a Busy Man" – 3:49 # "Brownskin Woman" – 3:41 # "Shake It" ( Big Joe Turner) – 3:00 # "Decoration Day" – 4:35 # "Baby How Long" (McGhee) – 2:40 # "Sunnyland Special" – 4:39 # "Harlem Can't Be Heaven" – 2:15 # "It's You Baby" – 2:23 # "Everytime I Get to Drinking"

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– 2:40 Additional track on CD reissue # "Tired of You Clowning" – 3:09 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

Performance

– piano, vocals *

King Curtis Curtis Ousley (born Curtis Montgomery; February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), known professionally as King Curtis, was an American saxophonist who played rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock and roll. A bandleader, band member, and session musician ...

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* Robert Banks – organ *

Leonard Gaskin Leonard Gaskin (August 25, 1920 – January 24, 2009) was an American jazz bassist born in New York City. Gaskin played on the early bebop scene at Minton's and Monroe's in New York in the early 1940s. In 1944 he took over Oscar Pettiford's ...

– bass * Belton Evans – drums

Production

Ozzie Cadena Oscar "Ozzie" Cadena (September 26, 1924 – April 9, 2008) was an American record producer with Savoy Records and Prestige Records who recorded gospel and jazz music in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and helped popularize jazz music in Los Ange ...

– supervision *

Rudy Van Gelder Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Theloni ...

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References

{{Authority control Sunnyland Slim albums 1961 albums Bluesville Records albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Albums produced by Ozzie Cadena