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Artist: REED, JIMMY
Title: Just Jimmy Reed
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: SR 1050LP
Exact repro reissue of blues legend Jimmy Reed's 1962 album. Recorded live and unrehearsed in the studio. The seemingly impromptu songs and (probably drunken) banter makes for an essential audio vérité-style document of the groovemaster.


Artist: KELLY, WYNTON
Title: Kelly Great
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: SR 3004LP
Exact repro reissue of this 1959 album from Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley accompanist Wynton Kelly. Featuring Philly Joe Jones (drums), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor), Paul Chambers (bass) and Kelly (piano). "...a fine, advanced hard bop date. There are four originals (all virtually forgotten decades later) by Kelly, Shorter and Morgan but it is the lone standard, a playful version of 'June Night' (which has some puckish Morgan trumpet), that is the standout." -- All Music


Artist: HOOKER, JOHN LEE
Title: I'm John Lee Hooker
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: VEEJAY 1007LP
Exact repro reissue of John Lee Hooker's 1959 debut. Featuring four tracks -- "I'm In The Mood," "Boogie Chillun," "Hobo Blues" and "Crawlin' King Snake" -- Hooker played by himself with one microphone recording simply his guitar and foot tapping out the rhythm. True foot-stompin' blues of the highest order. Hooker's joined by an additional rhythm guitar, string bass and drums on the rest of the album.


Artist: REED, JIMMY
Title: Found Love
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: VEEJAY 1022LP
Exact repro reissue of legendary blues guitarist 1959 album. Featuring hits like "Baby What You Want Me To Do," "Big Boss Man" and "Hush Hush," plus contributions from Eddie Taylor, Lefty Bates, Willie Dixon and Earl Phillips.


Artist: HOPKINS, LIGHTNIN'
Title: Lightnin' Strikes
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: VEEJAY 1044LP
Exact repro of this Texas bluesman's 1962 release. His unique and inimitable take on the blues is apparent on tracks like "Got Me A Louisiana Woman," "Coon Is Hard To Catch," "War Is Starting Again" and "Please Don't Quit Me."


Artist: HOOKER, JOHN LEE
Title: The Big Soul
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: VEEJAY 1058LP
"Jumping into the R&B and soul explosions of the early '60s -- or at least dipping his toe into them -- he's backed here by the Vandellas, no less, on all but one of the 11 songs here. And coupled with an uncredited band that includes organ accompaniment, among other attributes that one doesn't usually associate with Hooker, he pulls it off. Indeed, he manages to straddle blues and soul far better than, say, Muddy Waters did during this same period; he's still a little too intense for the more pop side of the field, but he's also stretching the appeal of the blues with every nuance on this record, and there are a few cuts here, such as 'Send Me Your Pillow' that would have fit on any of Hooker's far more traditional-sounding blues releases; and others, such as 'She Shot Me Down' (a rewrite of 'Boom Boom'), that are so close to his well-known standard repertory that they slip right into his output without explanation." --All Music Guide


Artist: HOOKER, JOHN LEE
Title: On Campus
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: VEEJAY 1066LP
Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1964. Electric guitar. Occasional background singers. Not a live album. From the back cover: "It would be erroneous and misleading to suggest that the Negro no longer knows the blues. He does; but today, he normally takes a more subtle route to self expression than singing. He registers his protest in a more universal language... Only the John Lee Hookers of the profession remain to remind us of from whence all the came -- raw, unbridled, painful misery."


Artist: MORGAN, LEE
Title: Here's Lee Morgan
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: VEEJAY 3007LP
Exact repro, originally released in 1960. "The music is good solid hard bop that finds Lee Morgan (already a veteran at age 21) coming out of the Clifford Brown tradition to display his own rapidly developing style. Matched with Clifford Jordan on tenor, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Blakey, Morgan's album could pass for a Jazz Messengers set." --All Music Guide


Artist: YOUNG LIONS, THE
Title: The Young Lions
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: VEEJAY 3013LP
Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1960. Featuring Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor), Frank Strozier (alto), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Bobby Timmons (piano), Louis Hayes (drums) and Albert 'Tuttie' Heath (drums).


Artist: MORGAN, LEE
Title: Expoobident
Label: VEE JAY
Format: LP
Price: $11.50
Catalog #: VEEJAY 3015LP
Hard bop quintet release with Art Blakey (drums), Eddie Higgins (piano), Art Davis (bass) and Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone). Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1960.

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