Jimmy Rushing - Do You Wanna Jump, Children? 1937-1946

2021 release

Jimmy Rushing is considered by many jazz critics and historians to be the greatest blues singer of his generation. From 1935 to the late 1940s he was the star vocalist with Count Basie and his Orchestra. The first 20 tracks of this compilation cover this period and include big hits such as, "Goin' To Chicago Blues", "Jimmy's Blues" and "Rusty Dusty Blues". Jimmy Rushing's powerful voice could hold it's own over the powerful riffing of horn sections in any big band setting and he went on to front other groups including Johnny Otis and Jimmy Mundy as the last 4 tracks of this set attest.

    1 Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)
    2 Blues in the Dark
    3 The Blues I Like to Hear
    4 Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
    5 You Can Depend on Me
    6 Evil Blues
    7 Baby Don't Tell on Me
    8 How Long Blues
    9 I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
    10 I Left My Baby
    11 It's the Same Old South
    12 Undecided Blues
    13 Goin' to Chicago Blues
    14 I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
    15 Rusty Dusty Blues
    16 Lost the Blackout Blues
    17 Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You
    18 Jimmy's Blues
    19 Take Me Back, Baby
    20 Harvard Blues
    21 Jimmy's 'Round the Clock Blues
    22 My Baby's Business
    23 Thursday Blues
    24 Good Morning Blues