''Trouble Blues'' is an album by blues musician
Curtis Jones recorded in 1960 and released on the
Bluesville label the following year.
Wirz' American Music: Curtis Jones Discography
Retrieved December 4, 2018
Reception
AllMusic
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stated: "The taciturn pianist in the company of a fine New York rhythm section and Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (June 27, 1927 November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist. He worked with many blues musicians, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lowell Fulson, Choker Campbell ...
(but on guitar, not piano) made for a winning combination on this 1960 album".
Track listing
All compositions by Curtis Jones except where noted
# "Lonesome Bedroom Blues" – 3:26
# "A Whole Lot of Talk for You" – 3:00
# "Suicide Blues" (Armand "Jump" Jackson
Armand "Jump" Jackson (March 25, 1917 – January 31, 1985) was an American blues and rhythm and blues drummer, bandleader, songwriter, record label owner, and booking agent. He is best known for creating the forceful "sock" rhythm found on the ...
) – 4:09
# "Please Say Yes" (Ozzie Cadena) – 2:38
# "Weekend Blues" – 3:32
# "Good Woman Blues" (Jackson) – 2:43
# "Trouble Blues" (Cadena, Jones) – 5:05
# "Love Season Blues" – 3:58
# "Low Down Worried Blues" – 3:07
# "Good Time Special" – 2:10
# "Fool Blues" (Jackson) – 2:37
# " Pinetop Boogie" (Pinetop Smith
Clarence Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929), better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top Smith, was an American boogie-woogie style blues pianist. His hit tune "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" featured rhythmic "breaks" that were an essential i ...
) – 2:54 Additional track on CD reissue
Personnel
Performance
* Curtis Jones – piano, vocals
* Robert Banks – organ
*Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (June 27, 1927 November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist. He worked with many blues musicians, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lowell Fulson, Choker Campbell ...
– guitar
*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
* Sticks 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 ...
– engineer
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References
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Curtis Jones (pianist) albums
1961 albums
Bluesville Records albums
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio
Albums produced by Ozzie Cadena