Bill Jazz Gillum
Bill Jazz Gillum
Genres: blues, harmonica blues, harmonica, blues harmonica, spotify
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About Bill Jazz Gillum
William McKinley Gillum (11 September 1904 - 29 March 1966), known as Jazz Gillum, was an American blues harmonica player. He was born in Indianola, Mississippi. After running away from home at the age of 7, Bill Gillum spent the next few years in Charleston, Mississippi, working and playing for tips on local street corners. He moved to Chicago in 1923, meeting up with guitarist Big Bill Broonzy. The duo started working club dates around the city and, by 1934, Gillum started recording for ARC and Bluebird Records. With his characteristic high, reedy harmonica sound, he appeared on many of the highly popular "Bluebird beat" recordings produced by Lester Melrose in the 1930s and 1940s, under his own name and as a sideman. However, after the Bluebird label folded in the late 1940s he made few further recordings, dying in Chicago as a result of a gunshot wound.
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Bill Jazz Gillum — Top 7 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Jazz Gillum | I'll Get Along Somehow | ||
| Bill Jazz Gillum | It Looks To Bad For You | ||
| Bill Jazz Gillum | Mule Blues | ||
| Bill Jazz Gillum | You Drink To Much Whiskey | ||
| Bill Jazz Gillum | Country Woman Blues | ||
| Bill Jazz Gillum | Me And My Buddy | ||
| Bill Jazz Gillum | Go Back To The Country |