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Floyd Domino's All-Stars: Boogie Minor

Read "Boogie Minor" reviewed by Jack Bowers


On the debut album as leader of his Texas-based sextet (enlarged to seven-strong on seven numbers by the reliable vocalist Emily Gimble), veteran pianist Floyd Domino plays his trademark Western swing leavened with large doses of blues, boogie, stride and barrelhouse. There's a touch of jazz secreted therein too, but no matter what one calls it, Domino's music is always fun to listen to and enjoy. In Domino's capable hands, even the standards “Between the Devil and ...

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Floyd Domino's All-Stars: Floyd Domino's All-Stars

Read "Floyd Domino's All-Stars" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


At the time in which traveling bands of the Southern Plains were reaching their peak popularity--the 1920s--Texas and Oklahoma contingents were experimenting beyond their typical formulaic performances. At the same time Western music was on the verge of dying and likely would have were it not for the efforts of folklorists John Lomax (the father of Alan Lomax) and Jack Thorp who published collections of “cowboy music," reviving interest in the genre. It was probably inevitable that Western music, jazz ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Boogie Minor

Self Produced
2019

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Floyd Domino's...

Golliber Records
2018

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Baby Road

RCA Camden
1986

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