Tracklist
00:00 Memories of You
02:54 Night and Day
05:52 Deep Purple
09:01 The Moon Is Low
12:26 Heavy Laden
15:44 Reflections
18:23 High Dudgeon
21:28 Squeeze Me
24:32 The Bass Romps Away
27:29 Brushin' off the Boogie
30:30 24 Hours at Booth's

BAND/ARTIST: JOE SULLIVAN
Title: Groovin' High
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: nagel heyer records
Genre: Jazz

One of the great Earl Hines' disciples (along with Jess Stacy), Joe Sullivan's style was perfect for the freewheeling jazz of Eddie Condon's bands. Sullivan graduated from the Chicago Conservatory and was an important contributor to the Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s.In 1936, Sullivan joined Bob Crosby's band, but tuberculosis put him in the hospital for ten months and Bob Zurke replaced him. However, Sullivan recovered, led his own record dates, and was involved in a lot of jam sessions with the Condon gang in the 1940s. By the 1950s he was largely forgotten, playing solo in San Francisco and drinking much more than he should. Despite an occasional recording and a successful appearance at the Teagarden family reunion at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival, Sullivan's prime years were long gone by the time he passed away.