''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
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Reception

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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 *

– 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 ...

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References

{{Authority control Curtis Jones (pianist) albums 1961 albums Bluesville Records albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio Albums produced by Ozzie Cadena