Big Joe Duskin is of the same generation as Taylor's father (Previous Article), but his music reaches back to a different tradition. As a Cincinnati Bluesman, the pianist and singer's music links more closely with Boogie Woogie and traditional Jazz. Duskin's biography itself could make a blues song. The son of a strict preacher, his father made him promise not to play Jazz and the Blues until after he died. (Duskin recounts one such run-in with his father on the spoken word track, "The Preacher and the Devil's Music.") Duskin was about 17 at the time and his father close to 80. So the young man felt he didn't have long to keep the promise. His father ended up living to 105, and Duskin kept his promise, earning his living as a police officer and only playing music in church. Since the 1970s, he's been on the local scene. Age and illness have hobbled his piano playing, though he still delivers a rocking groove. His voice has the authority of a beloved elder. Big Joe Jumps Again is an oral history set to music with Duskin revisiting the music of the past 70 years. After playing a chorus of "Down the Road a Piece," he stops and reminisces, "I used to do all those boogie woogies. I was one of the best cats you'd ever seen." That may be in the past but he still commands enough respect to enlist erstwhile rock-idol Peter Frampton to assist on two tracks, the classics "Every Day I Have the Blues" and "Key to the Highway." That may prompt some skepticism among regular Cadence readers, but Frampton's inspired playing should allay them. His playing is always complimentary, keeping the focus just where it belongs - on Big Joe Duskin.