Papa Jackson Charlie - Papa Charlie Jackson Collection 1924-34Papa Charlie Jackson was one of the first country blues artists to emerge from the minstrel, vaudeville and medicine shows to become a successful recording artist during the 1920s. Born in New Orleans in 1885, he sang and played banjo and guitar, working in travelling shows across the south before settling in Chicago, close to the hubs of commercial recording in the '20s. He largely recorded the kind of material he had been performing for years on the

and much of what has happened since then reflects Muddy's rich legacy

and had hits through into the 1950s

arranger Maxwell Davis on tenor sax & Al 'Cake' Wichard on drums

court kapellmeister and scholar in the transitional period from Renaissance to Baroque

and Jack Angel

who worked with the orchestras of Charlie Barnet

"Chickery Chick" and "Bonaparte's Retreat"

from which all the titles featuring Joan are included here

"Count Every Star"

1 "Just A Dream"

no one would have thought that this symphony in particular would become a kind of "symphony of fate" of the year

Born in Brooklyn in 1931