Blues at Montreux [Live]

King Curtis, Champion Jack Dupree | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B000002IIM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #446,618 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding jazzy barrel house blues, February 3, 2005

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Anthony Riddette "Eclectic" (Sydney Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blues at Montreux (Audio CD)

This album just pumps!

I've found other Jack Dupree ablums very flat in comparison to this.

This is without a doubt, the best blues album I've ever heard. It's not blues in the usual depressing sense, it's get up and get crazy barrel house blues. Drunken brothel music at its best.

This is the last recording that King Curtis made before he was killed two weeks later (what a loss!) and his inclusion on this album is a stroke genius. I'm sure it's the presence of Curtis that lifts Dupree's playing. They just bounce and feed off each other. Jack Dupree really shines in such excellent company.

This is a joyous masterpiece.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE, July 22, 2002

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deepbluereview "deepbluereview" (SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues at Montreux (Audio CD)

King Curtis was a sax player extraordinaire. His soulful playing can be heard on tunes by the Coasters, Nina Simone, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, the Beatles, Duane Allman and Aretha Franklin to name but a few. Champion Jack Dupree was a self proclaimed "barrelhouse piano player" who learned to play as a teenager in brothels and speakeasies.

Champion Jack recorded approximately 74 albums in his lifetime with his best being "Blues From The Gutter". For this particular recording, King Curtis was in Montreux in 1971 to back up Aretha Franklin and Champion Jack was on hand for a solo performance. The collaboration of the two was one of those unexpected impromptu decisions that made history. The sax of King Curtis is jazzy and soulful and when combined with the rollicking piano of Champion Jack, creates the atmosphere of a late night jazz session in New Orleans. Dupree's "Junker Blues" never sounded grittier and "Sneaky Pete", a song about wine that sells for 50 cents a gallon, is given new life with the addition of Champion Jack's piano. Sadly, Champion Jack asks at the beginning of the CD "I wonder what I will be doing in 1999?" Neither man lived to see it. Champion Jack died January 21, 1992, in Hanover Germany and King Curtis was murdered outside his New York apartment just three months after this recording. If you like sax and barrelhouse piano, this CD is first rate.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Up close and personal--warm horn, vocals and honkytonk, March 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blues at Montreux (Audio CD)

A great jam featuring my favorite horn player Curtis Ousley and the for-real piano blues of Champion Jack. This recording might have been heard live in a bar with 4 people there, (all ex-wifes), outside at someones wedding, or in a stadium with 20,000 screaming fans. Nothing pretentious, and great tunes. A good representation by all.