Recordings

March, 1964

Jimmy Witherspoon / Baby, Baby, Baby (Prestige) is the blues, man. Whether it's tinged with sophistication as in Ellington's Rocks in My Bed or just plain gully-low blues shouting as on Blues and Trouble, it's still basic indigo, a métier that "Spoon" practically owns. Instrumental accompaniment ranges from Flügelhorn to harmonica to tambourine – all apropos.•Brandenburg Gate: Revisited / The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Orchestra (Columbia) features Dave's compositions, with the exceptio...