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

Im Netz 

  Biografie bei Allmusic Guide (engl.)

Beleg

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