Jon Hendricks - Fast Livin Blues '1968 [2021]

Tracks list

Jon Hendricks helped to originate vocalese, which is an art form of adding
lyrics to existing instrumentals and replacing instruments with vocalists. He is
also considered to be one of the best scat performers. Jazz critic and historian
Leonard Feather called him the Poet Laureate of Jazz. Al Jarreau has called him
pound-for-pound the best jazz singer on the planet - maybe thats ever been.
After his service in the Army during World War II, Hendricks attended the
University of Toledo as a pre-law major. Just as he was about to enter the
graduate law program, his G.I. benefits ran out, which forced him to choose a
different career path. Recalling that Charlie Parker had encouraged him to come
to New York two years earlier to look him up, Hendricks took him up on his offer
and moved there and began his singing career. In 1968, he moved his family to
London, England to further his solo career and so his five children could
receive a better education.

Bluesman Jon Hendricks is in Superb Form Here! Featuring such Major Sidemen as
Pony Poindexter and Billy Mitchell, this Spirited Album is Essential to Any
Audiophiles Collection!


Tracks:

01 - What Would You Do 02:34
02 - Fast Livin Blues 05:42
03 - Saturday Night Fish Fry 03:34
04 - Do You Call That a Buddy 04:18
05 - Ill Die Happy 02:05
06 - Another Get Together 04:17
07 - Good Old Lady 03:06
08 - Contemporary Blues 04:24
09 - Stop and Go Blues 03:26
10 - Ill Never Get Enough of You 03:00

Personnel:

Vocals - Jon Hendricks
Bass – Ike Isaacs (tracks: 6)
Drums – Stu Martin (tracks: 6)
Guitar – Freddie Green (tracks: 6)
Piano – Gildo Mahones (tracks: 6)
Saxophone – Billy Mitchell (tracks: 6)
Soprano Saxophone – Pony Poindexter (tracks: 6 to 10)
Trombone – Al Grey (tracks: 6)
Trumpet – Joe Newman (tracks: 6)

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