Memphis Slim

Da Memphis Slim (* 3. September 1915 z Memphis, Tennessee; † 24. Feba 1988 z Paris, Frankreich) wor a amerikanischa Blues-Senga und -Pianist.

Ois oana vo de easchtn Bluesmusikantn hod da Memphis Slim Wejdtourneen gmocht. Zamm mitm Willie Dixon is a beispuisweis in Israel afdredn und mitm Muddy Waters in da New Yorker Carnegie Hall (1959, CD: Chicago Blues Masters, Vol.1, Capitol Records). Anno 1962 noch ana Eiropa-Tournee is da Memphis Slim noch Frankreich zogn und is duatn mit zu seim Doud 1988 bliebm.

1989 is a in de Blues Hall of Fame afgnumma worn.

 Diskographie 
 Oibm (Auswoi) 
 1959 Memphis Slim at the Gate of the Horn [live] VeeJay Records
 1960 Real Boogie Woogie 2 	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
 1960 Blue This Evening		1201 Music
 1960 Frisco Bay Blues 	Fontana Distribution
 1960 Travelling with the Blues		Storyville
 1961 Tribute to Big Bill Broonzy etc.	Candid
 1961 Alone with My Friends		Battle/Original Blues Classics
 1961 Just Blues	
 1961 Broken Soul Blues
 1961 Memphis Slim 	Chess
 1961 Steady Rolling Blues	 	Bluesville/Original Blues Classics
 1961 The World's Foremost Blues Singer 	Strand
 1962 Blues by Jazz Gillum 	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
 1962 Memphis Slim's Tribute	 	Absord
 1962 Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon in Paris 	Battle
 1962 No Strain
 1962 Willie's Blues 	Prestige Records
 1962 Memphis Slim U.S.A.  	Delmark
 1963 All Kinds of Blues		Bluesville/Original Blues Classics
 1963 Piano Blues	 	Storyville
 1964 If the Rabbit Had a Gun	 	Disc
 1964 Memphis Slim 	 	King
 1966 Pinetop's Blues	 	Polydor
 1966 Blue Portrait 	Sceptre
 1966 Self Portrait
 1969 Mother Earth 	One Way Records
 1969 Right Now 	TRIP
 1970 Messin' Around with the Blues	 	Blue Boar
 1971 Blue Memphis 	Wounded Bird Records
 1971 Boogie Woogie	 	Musidisc (import)
 1971 Born With the Blues		Jewel
 1971 Memphis Slim 	TKO Magnum
 1972 Bad Luck & Trouble
 1972 Great Memphis Slim 	America
 1972 Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon 	Battle
 1972 Memphis Slim 	Barnaby
 1972 Memphis Slim, Vol. 2	 	Everest
 1972 South Side Reunion 	Wounded Bird Records
 1973 Blues in Europe	 	Storyville
 1973 Very Much Alive and in Montreux	 	Universal International
 1974 At Lausanne	 	Musidisc (import)
 1974 At the Village Gate [live] 	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
 1974 Favorite Blues Singers	
 1974 Honky Tonk Sound 	Folk Era Records
 1974 Live	 	Storyville
 1974 Memphis Slim & Matthew Murphy 	Black & Blue
 1974 Memphis Slim [America]	 	America
 1974 Real Boogie Woogie 	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
 1974 Real Honky Tonk 	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
 1975 Blues Man 	Musidisc (import)
 1975 Goin' Back to Tennessee	 	Barclay
 1975 Rock Me Baby 	Black Lion
 1976 Chicago Boogie	 	Black Lion
 1976 Fattenin' Frogs for Snakes 	Melodisc
 1977 Memphis Slim & Michel Denis 	Adda
 1978 Chicago Blues	
 1981 Blues & Women 	Isabel
 1981 I'll Just Keep on Singin' the Blues		Savoy Jazz
 1981 Memphis Heat		Polygram
 1981 Rockin' the Blues 	Charly Records
 1984 Boogie Woogie Piano 	CBS Records
 1985 Sonny Boy Williamson and Memphis Slim in Paris 	GNP
 1989 Dialogue in Boogie 	EPM
 1990 Parisian Blues	 	Emarcy

 DVD 
 1986 Memphis Slim - Live At Ronnie Scott's London

All Music Guide Diskographie Memphis Slim, CD Universe, Amazon

 Im Netz 

  Biografie bei Allmusic Guide (engl.)

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Kategorie:Blues-Musiker
Kategorie:Pianist
Kategorie:Träger des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Komtur)
Kategorie:US-amerikanischer Musiker
Kategorie:Geboren 1915
Kategorie:Gestorben 1988
Kategorie:Mann