Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra - Are You Ready to Rock: The Singles 1942-1955 (2020)

Tracklist
00:00 Big Fat Mama (Vocal - Trevor Bacon)
03:02 I Want A Tall Skinny Papa (Vocal - Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
06:00 When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World) (Vocal - Trevor Bacon)
09:15 Are You Ready (Vocal - Trevor Bacon)
12:19 Apollo Jump (Instrumental)
15:42 Sweet Slumber (Vocal - Trevor Bacon)
18:56 Hurry, Hurry (Vocal - Wynonie Harris)
21:58 Shorty s Got To Go (Vocal - Lucky Millinder)
25:12 Let It Roll (Vocal - Annisteen Allen)
27:51 Oh Babe! (Vocal - Wynonie Harris)
30:48 Lord Knows I Tried (Vocal - Heyward Jackson)
Artist: Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
Title: Are You Ready to Rock: The Singles 1942-1955
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Jasmine Records
Genre: Rhythm and Blues, Jazz, Swing
This is an exciting set of rocking blues and R&B and many of these tracks have been filling dancefloors for years. Lucky Millinder's big band was big, really big. It was loud and raucous and designed mainly for dancers but over the years it was in action it featured some of the greatest jazz musicians and r&b players to ever grace a stage or recording studio.
Features the vocal talents of such luminaries as: Trevor Bacon, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Wynonie Harris, and Annisteen Allen to name a few. The members of his orchestra were equally famous in the jazz world and feature such top flight musicians as: Bill Doggett; Sam 'The Man' Taylor; Dizzy Gillespie; Ike Quebec; Paul Quinichette and Art Blakey.
Here then is a selection which is essentially a greatest hits collection mostly featuring the US chart entries. Whichever way you slice it there are many fine recordings here which have resonated through the past 60 years.

[@rayszymarek2920]

When big bands like this to do one night stands people stood in line to come and hear and dance of bands like this one. great great music no special mikes or special effects just darn good music the one night big bands or suit case bands are the absolutely greatest ones any gene krupa one nite stands at concerts or clubs

[@petegarrido5406]

Underappreciated band that was tight and rythmthically superior . Milliner struck gold with the talented people he worked with .
Wynonie Harris went on to become one of the biggies in Jump Blues . Trevor Bacon was one hell of a crooner .