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Personnel includes: Roosevelt Sykes (vocals, piano); J.T. Brown, Remo Bondi, Sax Mallard, Fred Below, Ransom Knowling, Jump Jackson. Recorded between 1951 & 1953. Includes liner notes by Tad Jones. This fine collection of Sykes's early-'50s sides for Chicago's United Records was reissued on Delmark in 2000. It contains some of the pianist's finest work with his jumping combo, the Honeydrippers (with unusual augmentation from violinist Remo Biondi on one 1952 date). "Toy Piano Blues" finds Sykes switching over to celeste, but "Too Hot to Handle," "Walking the Boogie," and "Fine and Brown" are in the customary Sykes mode. ~ Bill Dahl
