A Walk On The Wild Side: Classic Tracks From L.A.'s Legendary Central... LP

A Walk on the Wild Side pulls together tracks recorded around Central Avenue, the South Central Los Angeles corridor that built its own clubs, labels and radio outlets when segregation locked Black musicians out of the major studios. This Shanachie set holds to the 1944 to 1955 window when jazz, blues, jump blues and R&B still shared the same stages and the same rooms, pulling in Dexter Gordon, Charles Mingus, Wardell Gray, Percy Mayfield, Jimmy Witherspoon and Big Jay McNeely.