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Chuck Higgins: Pachuko Hop

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This CD, covering the years 1954-56 and sessions for the Specialty and Money labels, is more R&B than jazz. Most of the cuts are vocal, and most qualify as jump blues or doo-wop; the liner notes even compare one track to the Clovers. So why is this reviewed here? Two reasons: the style of jump blues is a bridge between jazz and later R&B; you can hear both styles in these cuts. And because Chuck Higgins blows a gravelly tenor ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Pachuko Hop

Chesky Records
2007

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Pachuko Hop

Specialty
1999

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Here I'm Is

Chesky Records
1955

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