- Jazz Blues · 1957
- Blues Around the Clock · 1963
- Black & White Blues · 1976
- Love Is a Five Letter Word · 1975
- The Blues Collection (Best Songs Remastered) · 1992
- Singin' the Blues · 1959
- 100 Blues Classics & Greatest Blues Hits - The Very Best Classic Blues Collection · 1941
- At the Monterey Jazz Festival (Live) - EP · 1960
- Ain't Nobody's Business · 1947
- Ain't Nobody's Business · 2003
- Jazz Me Blues: The Best Of Jimmy Witherspoon · 1966
- At the Monterey Jazz Festival (Live) - EP · 1960
- The Greatest Blues Sounds from the 50s and 60s · 1988
- 1991
- 1976
- 1976
- 1975
- 1967
Singles & EPs
Compilations
- 2013
- 2009
- 2008
About Jimmy Witherspoon
A quintessential blues shouter in the tradition of Big Joe Turner, Jimmy Witherspoon got his start like many urban blues singers, fronting for jump blues and swing bands in the 1940s. By the late '50s, Witherspoon had started collaborating with more straightforward jazz musicians such as Richard "Groove" Holmes, Earl Hines, and Roy Eldridge. This combination of blues grit and jazz sophistication resulted in a highly influential hybrid embraced by many soul vocalists that emerged after Witherspoon. After a 50-year career, he finally succumbed to throat cancer in 1997 at the age of 77.
- HOMETOWN
- Gurdon, AR, United States
- BORN
- 8 August 1920
- GENRE
- Blues