Mashup in New York

"Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues"

Count Basie

Salto a Nova Iorque dos anos 40 e 50, muito feita à volta da indústria discográfica, tornando a Big Apple numa miscelânea de registos migrados de terras tão distintas como New Orleans, Mississippi, Chicago ou Texas. Contudo, a força do swing dos anos 30 e do bebop dos 40, leva a um registo mais jazzístico do blues dos artistas provenientes de Nova Iorque.

Brownie McGhee - I'm A Black Woman's Man
Curley Weaver - Some Rainy Day
Guitar Slim and Jelly Belly - No More Hard Times
Country Paul - Side Walk Boogie
Sonny Terry - Custard Pie Blues
Little Boy Harris - Love, Love, Love
Ralph Willis - Christmas Blues
Square Wolton - Pepper Heal Woman
Arnett Cobb - Smooth Sailing
Lucky Millinder - D Natural Blues
Cootie Williams - Gator Tail
Chuck Calhon - Hey Tiger
Big Maybelle - I'm Getting Long Alright
Champion Jack Dupree - Just Like A Woman
Sam The Man - Oo Wee
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - How Blue Can You Get
Donny Run Joe Taylor - Coffee Daddy Blues
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You

New Orleans Got Rythm

"There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it"

Jimmy Rushing

Pausa no blues e passagem para os seus derivados. New Orleans foi então o destino. Fábrica de hits, de pézinhos de dança, de ritmos, de banda sonora para qualquer bailarico nos anos 50 a acontecer num club americano. O blues, nas raízes, com o caribe e a tradição jazzística dancável da terra do Mardis Gras a fundirem-se e a criarem o rythm and blues de New Orleans. Shall we dance?

The Showman - Country Fool
Dave Bartholomew - Yeah Yeah Yeah
Alan Brooks - Foolish Woman
Alan Brooks - Ding Ding Darling
Miles & Dupont - Loud Mouthie Annie
The Hawketts - Mardi Gras Mambo
T.V. Slim - Flat Foot Sam
Bobby Charles - Later Aligator
Prince Lala - She Put The Hurt On Me
Charles Williams - I Cried All Night Long
James Crawford - Jocomo
Benny Spellman - Fortune Teller
Benny Spellman - Lipsitck Traces On A Cigarrette
Irma Thomas - Cry On
Irma Thomas - Gone
Ernie K Doe - Mother In Law
Clarence Frogman - I Aint Got No Home
Edgar Blenchard - Lawdy Mama
Professor LongHair - Look What You're Doing To Me
Rolling Crook - I Wanna Know Why
Bobby Blanquet - Needing Your Love
Rene Hall's Orchestra - The Jug
Eddie Bo - Oh Oh
Rob Bernard - This Should Go On Forever
Big Maybelle - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show