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T-Bone Walker: Thorny Problem Of Mixing The Blues With Modern Jazz

Max Jones, Melody Maker, 17 December 1966

I HAVE always looked on T-Bone Walker as being more of a jazz-blues singer than a folk or country-type artist. In other words, as a man whose style fitted comfortably into the jazz idiom. His records, it seems to me, have proved this compatibility.

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