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8 de dic. de 2006 · If you're interested in finding out what's so great about Little Walter, buy a Muddy Waters Chess Records compilation and/or "Confessin' The Blues", a wonderful Little Walter cd. "Rollin' & Tumblin'" saves this album from being a total bore, as it is some of the most emotive, amazing, sensational, post-World War II Blues in existence!
Marion Walter Jacobs, dit Little Walter, est un chanteur, harmoniciste et guitariste de blues américain, né à Marksville, Louisiane, le 1 er mai 1930, décédé à Chicago, le 15 février 1968.Connu pour son caractère querelleur et acariâtre, il mourut accidentellement lors d'une rixe de rue. Révolutionnant les techniques existantes de l'harmonica blues, utilisant le microphone comme ...
27 de sept. de 2022 · According to Britannica, Marion Jacobs settled in Chicago around 1946 and played in Muddy Waters' blues band between 1948 and 1952. NPR reports that once Little Walter had a taste of success, which incidentally happened while he was on tour with Waters, he quit the band entirely. With success, it appears Jacobs' head got a bit big and he had epic fallouts with everyone in his path, including ...
25 de nov. de 2022 · Little Walter. Considered by many to be the greatest blues harmonica player ever, Marion “Little Walter” Jacobs rose from obscurity in Marksville to international acclaim in the blues scene of Chicago. During the first half of the 1950s he became one of the key architects of the electrified Chicago blues style, an ensemble, collaborative ...
2 de may. de 2024 · Walter’s sound was ahead of its time and more up-tempo than what the rest of the Chicago blues had to offer at the time. As a harmonica player he was rhythmically freer, and a lot less unvarying than most blues harpists of his time. Little Walter stood out and made his way to the top, yet his musical triumphs couldn’t save him from himself.
As a singer, composer and harmonica genius, Little Walter was arguably the best blues artist produced by the post war Chicago blues movement. Walter arrived in Chicago from rural Louisiana at the end of WWII, and recorded his first record in 1947 at the age of 17. From the very start Walter paid homage to no tradition other than his own.
1 de may. de 2024 · Little Walter single-handedly fashioned the stylistic approach for harmonica which has been emulated by virtually every blues harmonica player. Born Marion Walter Jacobs on May 1, 1930, in rural ...
