Showing posts with label CD Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CD Reviews. Show all posts
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Pete Fountain * The Blues * Coral Records (CRL 757284) * 1959

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Side A St. Louis Blues Blue Fountain  Columbus Stockade Blues Aunt Hagar's Blues Lonesome Road The Memphis Blues Side B My In...
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Pete Fountain's New Orleans * Coral Records (CRL 757282) * 1959

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Side A  While We Danced the Mardi Gras A Closer Walk With Thee When the Saints Go Marching In When It's Sleepy Time Down South Ol...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

CD Review: Pete Fountain Live in Santa Monica * March 16, 1961 * Hindsight Records HCD-617

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March 16, 1961 Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Pete Fountain * clarinet Godfrey Hirsh * vibes Stan Wrightsman * piano Morty ...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Bob Wallis' Storyville Jazz Men: Everybody Loves Saturday Night * Top Rank International * 1960

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Le Reve Passe Down Home Rag Old Stack-O-Lee Blues Everybody Loves Saturday Night I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen Alla Turka...
Friday, July 6, 2018

Scott Yanow on Bootlegs from the Bop Stop

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"Seddon, who has a large tone and extroverted style on clarinet...dominates the music, playing with infectious spirit and creativity...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Sidney Bechet & Albert Nicholas with Jelly Roll Morton * September 14, 1939 * Bluebird * NYC

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Oh, Didn't He Ramble High Society I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say Winin' Boy Blues Stanley De Paris, trumpet Claude Jones, ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Sidney Bechet and the Port of Harlem Seven * June 8, 1939 * Blue Note Records * NYC

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Blues for Tommy Ladnier Summertime Pounding Heart Blues Frankie Newton, trumpet J. C.  Higgenbotham, trombone Sidney Bechet, soprano s...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Sidney Bechet with Tommy Ladnier & His Orchestra * November 28, 1938 * New York City * Bluebird Records

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Ja-Da Really The Blues When You and I Were Young, Maggie Weary Blues Tommy Ladnier, trumpet Sidney Bechet, soprano sax & clarinet ...
Monday, February 6, 2017

November 6, 1938 * Sidney Bechet's First Recording Session as a Bandleader

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What a Dream Hold Tight Jungle Drums Chant in the Night Sidney Bechet, soprano sax & clarinet Ernie Caceres, baritone sax Dave Bo...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

CD Review: The Artistry of Artie Shaw * Hep Records CD 78 * 2004

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I can't say how many times I ignored this CD when seeing it in the rack at Half Price Books, walking distance from my house in Cleveland...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Sidney Bechet * May 26, 1938 * with Trixie Smith and Grant & Wilson * Decca

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May 26, 1938 was unique in Sidney Bechet's career: on this day he recorded ten tunes, all of them entirely on the clarinet. Maybe his so...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Sidney Bechet and the New Orleans Feetwarmers * 1932

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Sweetie Dear (Jordan/Cook) I Want You Tonight (Bechet/Maxey) I've Found a New Baby (Williams/Palmer) Lay Your Racket (Bechet/Maxey) ...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Jelly Roll Morton 1930 (featuring Lorenzo Tio, Jr; Albert Nicholas and others ) * CD 323 from JSPCD Jazzbox903 * Remastered by John R.T. Davies

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For as disappointing as Volume Two of JSP's Jelly Roll Morton box is from a clarinetist's perspective, Volume three is a real treat,...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Jelly Roll Morton 1928-29 (featuring Russell Procope, George Baquet, Albert Nicholas, & Barney Bigard) * CD 322 from JSPCD Jazzbox903 * Remastered by John R.T. Davies

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When starting this blog over six years ago, I knew it would take a while before addressing recordings like these. The repertoire is importan...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Sidney Bechet with Noble Sissle 1931-1938

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After the brilliance of Sidney Bechet's playing on the recordings with the Clarence Williams Blue 5 , his releases with Noble Sissle and...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Sidney Bechet & The Clarence Williams Blue Five * 1923-1925

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Accidents of history are a strange thing, but sometimes all we know hinges on them. Had Sidney Bechet not gotten deported from England in 19...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band * The Complete 1923 Recordings * Off the Record * OTR-MM6-C2 (2006)

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Disc One Just Gone  Canal Street Blues  Mandy Lee Blues I'm Going Away to Wear You Off My Mind  Chimes Blues  ...