Various
Blues Avalanche (Recorded Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland)

Listening notes

Various – Blues Avalanche (Recorded Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland) is a 1985 vinyl release on Chess, catalog number CH-2-9225. Filed under Blues and Chicago Blues, this various-artist set is presented as a live recording per its title and is sequenced across four sides (A through D).

Side A opens with I Hear You Knoockin' (3:50), followed by You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover (duration not provided in the supplied data), Diddley Daddy (2:13), and Early In The Morning (5:07). Side B features Baby What You Want Me To Do (2:43), Wang Dang Doodle (7:03), and I Got What It Takes (6:25). Side C contains Wrinkles (9:12), Swiss Boogie (6:06), and County Jail (6:08). Side D closes the program with Trouble No More (2:27), Got My Mojo Working (4:33), (They Call It) Stormy Monday (6:29), and She Says She Loves Me (4:38).

Across the listed timings, tracks range from concise performances like Diddley Daddy at 2:13 to extended pieces such as Wrinkles at 9:12. The selection gathers well-known blues titles alongside pieces such as Swiss Boogie and She Says She Loves Me, with the running order balancing shorter cuts against longer excursions on the middle sides. One track, You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover (A2), has no duration noted in the provided information.

As documented, the release details are: Chess label, catalog CH-2-9225, issued in 1985 on vinyl, with genre tags of Blues and Chicago Blues. The album’s title specifies its source as the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. No additional information about personnel, recording specifics, production notes, pressing variants, or reception is included here. This draft reflects the available facts and track data as listed and is intended for verification by a human fact checker.