Charles Eldridge Norris (August 11, 1921 – August 26, 1989) was an American jazz and blues guitarist.
Considered a prototype West Coast bluesman, Norris was
actually a Midwesterner. He was born in the blues- and jazz-heavy town of
Kansas City and raised in the equally musical metropolis of Chicago. Listeners
who have heard his guitar playing in any
context would not be surprised to learn that he was a student of the
famed Chicago music instructor Captain Walter Dyett, a man who was involved in the formative training of many Chicago-area jazz musicians. Norris was much more than just a funky string bender. He could play subtle rhythmic accompaniment in the style of a jazz guitarist such as Oscar Moore, then turn around and wail out front and high above the band like a Peewee Crayton or Johnny "Guitar" Watson.
context would not be surprised to learn that he was a student of the
famed Chicago music instructor Captain Walter Dyett, a man who was involved in the formative training of many Chicago-area jazz musicians. Norris was much more than just a funky string bender. He could play subtle rhythmic accompaniment in the style of a jazz guitarist such as Oscar Moore, then turn around and wail out front and high above the band like a Peewee Crayton or Johnny "Guitar" Watson.
He studied and worked in Chicago until the mid-'40s, when he
moved out to the West Coast following a failed marriage. Truthfully feeling the
blues, he gigged at night and mined the recording studios for session gold
during the days. He soon became one of the most-called musicians in Hollywood. Between
1947 and 1951 he recorded several records in Los Angeles for Coast, Imperial,
Selective, Mercury and Aladdin. His final two recordings were made in New York
City for Atlantic in 1953. The best-known Norris tracks include titles such as
"Messin' Up," "Kinda Sick, Mostly Worried," and the
philosophical "What's Good for One's Good for All."
Some of the guitarist's best playing was on records by brilliant black performers who were in the process of extending the blues into innovative realms, creating brand new genres in the process. One such artist was the great Percy Mayfield, who recorded original classics such as the grueling "Two Years of Torture" with band backing that combined Norris with musicians such as saxophonists Marshall Royal and Maxwell Davis.
Although not as well-known as Mayfield, pianist and singer
Floyd Dixon was another blues talent that recorded on the West Coast in the
early '50s, putting the guitar sound of Norris into the spotlight for tracks
such as "Come Back Baby," "I'll Be Lonely," "People
Like Me," and especially the rocking instrumental "Shuffle
Boogie."
Many of the great West Coast players were aligned at one
time or another with Johnny Otis, a drummer and bandleader whose groups were
something like junior colleges for sidemen, Norris included. Guitar nuts can
drool over the Otis band that featured not only Norris but the amazing Johnny
"Guitar" Watson as well. Some of the sides cut by this line-up are
included on the Otis collection on the Charly label entitled Let's Live It Up.
Norris also worked with artists such as Amos Milburn, Dinah Washington, and
Little Richard.
In 1980, he recorded a live album, The Los Angeles Flash, in
Gothenburg, Sweden. Norris died in Tustin, California, in 1989.
(Edited from AllMusic, Wikipedia, Discogs)
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Will Rowland and his Orchestra
1- Shuffle Boogie
Pete Johnson
2- Pete Kay Boogie
3- Minuet Boogie
4- Margie
Floyd Dixon and his Band
5- Chicken Shack Boogie
Smiley Turner
6- West Coast Lover
Buddy Colette Orchestra
7- Blue Strings
Little Willie Littlefield
8- Hit The Road
9- Rockin' Chair Mama
Roy Hawkins and his Orchestra
10- You Had A Good Man
11- Just A Poor Boy
12- Wine Drinkin' Woman
Chuck Norris and his Guitar
13- Hey Everybody
Chuck Norris and his Band
14- Rockin' After Hours
Rolee McGill
15- People Are Talkin'
Jay McShann Orchestra
16- Blues For An Old Cat
Chuck Norris
17- Chicken Neck Shuffle
18- Shake Rattle And Roll
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