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1	Black Minute Waltz
2	Good Night Irene
3	Pixie
4	On The Sunny Side Of The Street
5	Make A Better World
6	Junco Partner
7	Put Out The Light
8	Medlley: Blues Minuet/Until The Real Thing Comes Along/Baby Won't You Please Come Home
9	Pop's Dilemma
10	I'll Be Seeing You

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Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 12-MAR-1993

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Like Jelly Roll Morton and Professor Longhair, James Booker belonged to the great tradition of New Orleans piano "professors," players whose flamboyance extended from the keyboard to every aspect of life. On this 1975 solo recording, Booker's music is a gumbo of everything from barrelhouse blues and R&B to memories of childhood classical training as he ranges through material that had its origins with Chopin, Leadbelly, Earl King, and Tin Pan Alley. It's all stirred together in the high-speed blender of Booker's piano technique, driving, rock-solid left-hand rhythms colliding with the percussive runs that explode from the right. Booker is an effective singer, with a casual musicality and a lived-in voice, but the vocal tracks inevitably feel like piano with vocal accompaniment. --Stuart Broomer

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 3.35 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Hannibal
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 13, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Hannibal
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00000061V
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #186,498 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #66 in Boogie-Woogie
- #151 in New Orleans Blues
- #207 in Piano Blues

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Kathleen

Eclectic CD

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2011

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If you like piano, you will love this CD. From the classical (Chopin)to "Liberace type" ('ll Be Seeing You") to the raw "Juncko Partner" so much is represented here...and then there is "Pixie"...this you have to hear to believe! This CD has permanent residence in my car CD player...and yes, if there was only one CD that I could choose, this would be it. So much to enjoy that is so different in mood and approach. If your toes are not tapping while listening, check your pulse!!!!!!

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ACO

A landmark recording

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2012

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New Orleans has produced a remarkable number of outstanding pianists, and James Booker shows on this album why he belongs near the top of that list. His signature hard-driving polyrhythms, stunningly rich two-fisted texture, and overall technical brilliance make this a must-listen album for any fan of New Orleans R&B. I'm surely not alone in that opinion, since Hal Leonard published some James Booker transcriptions that include many of these tunes and a few fairly decent renditions appear on YouTube.

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T. O'Day

I love James Booker and this album is splendidly entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2017

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I love James Booker and this album is splendidly entertaining. Sad life it seems but what a talent he had as if his brain was wired to the piano; he blows me away.

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2002

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I defy anyone to listen to "Pixie" and be convinced only one man is playing. Unless that one man is the legendary James Booker. Not unlike Nina Simone in his way of combining classical elements into jazz and R+B, Booker is as good as it gets for New Orleans-style piano. When he sings "Junco Partner", its with a voice that rings all too true. Great stuff.

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VideoTiger

Amazing

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2008

I have collected a lot of great music from every possible style over many years. I love solo Piano (play a little myself) and have music from many artists from a wide range of styles and eras.

Dr. John, Professor Longhair, Butler, and other great NOLA pianists are all tremendous in their own right; but if I had to keep just one CD in my collection it would be this one. It has soul, style, rhythm and passion delivered with some serious virtuosity.

Eventually I would love to own all of James Booker's solo work.

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George Thomas (latidaprod@aol.com)

Spiritual Master of Solo Piano Nawleens Stylee

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 1998

This album, produced by Joe Boyd(Richard Thompson, et.al), is solo piano, well recorded with a mix of instrumental pieces(Pixie, Black Minute Waltz) and piano/vocals like Sunny Side Of The Street, Good Night Irene and Make A Better World. Black Minute Waltz is Booker's take on Chopin's Minute Waltz and will give you a taste of how far afield piano can get and how deeply affecting James Booker's world can get. Start with the best piano playing, add the crazed, yodeling vocals and mix in profound love for humanity (and various drugs) and you end up in the church of Booker, praising the late master to the skies as he laughs and strides on. The only match for this masterpiece is the live album on Rounder(2027) New Orleans Piano Wizard.

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blueskey

ピアノプレイヤーの中では1番好きなミュージシャンです

Reviewed in Japan on January 18, 2005

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ピアノはすごいです。テクニックもさることながらすさまじいエナジーを発散しています。「ピアノ大国=ニューオーリンズが誇る天才ピアニスト」という肩書に「もっともすごい」を付け足せる程ではないかと思います（主観が強すぎるかな..）初めて聞かれる方はびっくりするんじゃないでしょうか？但し、全編ピアノ弾き語りなのでピアニスト以外の方はすこし退屈されるかもしれません。その部分で☆4.5というところです。最後になりますが「junco partner」という曲はブッカー以外でも沢山の方が演奏されていますがブッカーの演奏を聞けば他のは「とても薄味」に感じてしまうのは私だけではないと思います。

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セカンドライン

出会いの1枚

Reviewed in Japan on March 16, 2009

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ブッカー兄ィを知ったのはこの１枚からでした。何か買うたび、このアルバムが何度も何度も「おすすめ」で出てくるので、まあ買ってみっかと思い、聴いたらどびっくり！セロニアス・モンクとアート・テイタムがありえない合体をして怪しいスパイスをかけたような・・。以後、入手できるものは全部買いました。ハズレなし！（ただ、オルガン好きなんですが、兄ィのオルガンはピアノが素晴らし過ぎて、あまり・・）。兄ィは手が4本あるのではと思うくらいの音数。楽譜が出てますが、再現不可能だと思います。世界一のピアニスト、ミュージシャンだと思います。迷わず買ってください。

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hervé j.

Un seul oeil, mais trois mains.

Reviewed in France on December 5, 2015

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James Booker était un pianiste de rythm'n Blues borgne mais dont on disait qu'il avait trois mains tant il excellait à créer une rythmique swingante et virtuose, parfois très originale mais toujours très groovy.

Dans cet album, il rend hommage à ses influences: je n'ai pas du tout aimé sa relecture de la Valse Minute de Chopin, trop iconoclaste et qui tient plutôt d'un sabotage en règle. L'album est en général assez sympathique, très varié, du blues, du ragtime, du boogie-woogie avec toujours des influences jazz ou classiques (Rachmaninov). La voix est assez gouailleuse, rappelant parfois Dr John ou Professor Longhair en plus aigu.

Pourtant le piano seul, quand il n'est pas classique, n'est pas trop ma tasse de thé (même Bill Evans). J'apprécie beaucoup plus le piano jazz (ou rythm'n blues) en trio, quand il est soutenu par la basse et la batterie et qu'il n'est pas pollué par les souffleurs (je rigole!).

James Booker est mort à 43 ans. Il ne se contentait pas d'être simplement un pianiste stupéfiant, il aimait aussi l'héroïne et l'alcool...

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Jazzrook

A superb solo album from New Orleans pianist James Booker.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2014

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The flamboyant and talented New Orleans-born pianist/singer James Booker(1939-1983), known as the 'Black Liberace', had a career marred by drug dependency, mental illness and imprisonment.
His solo album 'Junco Partner' was recorded in New Orleans during FebruarY, 1976 and is generally acknoWledged to be his finest recording.
The 10 memorable tracks include 3 Booker piano compositions, 'Pixie', 'Put Out The Light' & 'Pop's Dilemma', together with striking versions of Huddie Ledbetter's 'Good Night Irene', Earl King's 'Make A Better World', 'On The Sunny Side Of The Street' & the title track.
'Junco Partner' is an entertaining solo album that displays James Booker's diverse influences and is a must for lovers of New Orleans piano.

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Green

Un très bon album.

Reviewed in France on July 8, 2018

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James booker n'est pas au meilleur de sa forme dans cet album , surtout vocalement néanmoins cet homme était un génie donc tous ce qui sort de ses mains est magique . A avoir

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