Bix Beiderbecke - Singin' the Blues [1927]

Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's greatest recordings were mostly made in 1927. This definitive CD (reissued in 1990) has most of Beiderbecke's best-loved work, including "Singin' the Blues," "I'm Coming Virginia," "Ostrich Walk," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," and his solo piano classic "In a Mist." Most of the recordings were cut with Frankie Trumbauer's Orchestra, although there are also two titles from the Broadway Bellhops, a similar group. The beauty of Beiderbecke's horn outshone virtually every other brassman in the 1920s other than Louis Armstrong, and he never sounded better than on these records. Beiderbecke is joined by such notables as C-melody saxophonist Trumbauer, guitarist Eddie Lang, clarinetist Jimmy Dorsey, trombonist Bill Rank, and clarinetist Don Murray, among others. In addition to the titles mentioned, the renditions of "Clarinet Marmalade," Hoagy Carmichael's "Riverboat Shuffle," and "Wringin' and Twistin'" are among the other highlights. Essential music that in one form or another belongs in every serious jazz collection.

-Scott Yanow

01. Trumbology
02. Clarinet Marmalade
03. Singin' The Blues
04. Ostrich Walk
05. Riverboat Shuffle
06. I'm Coming Virginia
07. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
08. For No Reason At All In C
09. Three Blind Mice
10. Blue River
11. There's A Cradle In Caroline
12. In A Mist
13. Wringin' And Twistin'
14. Humpty Dumpty
15. Krazy Kat
16. The Baltimore
17. There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland To Me
18. There's A Cradle In Caroline
19. Just An Hour Of Love
20. I'm Wonderin' Who


Credits
Cornet - Bix Beiderbecke
Banjo - Eddie Lang (tracks: 19, 20) , Howdy Quicksell (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 7) , John Cali (tracks: 17, 18)
Clarinet, Saxophone [Alto] - Jimmy Dorsey (tracks: 1 to 3)
Clarinet, Saxophone [Tenor], Saxophone [Baritone] - Don Murray (2) (tracks: 4 to 7, 9 to 11, 14 to 20)
Directed By - Sam Lanin (tracks: 17, 18)
Drums - Chauncey Morehouse (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 11, 14 to 16, 19, 20) , Vic Berton (tracks: 17, 18)
Guitar - Eddie Lang (tracks: 3, 8, 9 to 11, 13 to 16)
Piano - Bix Beiderbecke (tracks: 13) , Frank Signorelli (tracks: 14 to 20) , Itzie Riskin (tracks: 4 to 7, 9 to 11) , Paul Mertz (tracks: 1 to 3)
Saxophone [Alto] - Bobby Davis (4) (tracks: 14 to 20) , Doc Ryker (tracks: 2, 9 to 11)
Saxophone [Bass] - Adrian Rollini (tracks: 9 to 11, 14 to 16, 19, 20)
Saxophone [C-melody] - Frankie Trumbauer (tracks: 1 to 11, 13, 17 to 20)
Trombone - Bill Rank (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 7, 9 to 11, 14 to 20) , Miff Mole (tracks: 3)
Trumpet - Hymie Farberman (tracks: 17, 18) , Sylvester Ahola (tracks: 19, 20)
Tuba - Joe Tarto (tracks: 17, 18)
Violin - Joe Venuti (tracks: 14 to 20)
Vocals - Irving Kaufman (tracks: 17 to 20) , Seger Ellis (tracks: 10)
Arranged By - Bill Challis (tracks: 4, 5, 7, 9 to 11) , Don Murray (2) (tracks: 6, 15) , Fud Livingston (tracks: 3, 14) , Paul Mertz (tracks: 1)

All tracks recorded in New York, Feb. to Sept. 1927.

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Robert Parker's Jazz Classics In Digital Stereo: New York

Robert Noel Parker (24 December 1936 – 30 December 2004) was an Australian sound engineer, jazz expert and broadcaster, well known for his radio series Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo.

Born in Sydney, Australia, he worked for the Commonwealth Film Unit then moved to Britain in 1964 to work in the film and television industry. On returning to Australia, he received a commission from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for a radio series on jazz.

As a collector of records from the age of twelve, he had built up a large collection of vintage music. He developed a system for transferring recordings to digital media, eliminating noise, adding stereo and enhancing acoustics. He first used an analogue machine, the Packman Audio Noise Suppressor, and later digital equipment from CEDAR Audio Ltd to transfer, retouch and enhance recordings.

With these techniques he produced reproductions of jazz records of the 1920's and earlier that are not only free of surface noise but reveal details, subtleties and a sense of presence that were not previously evident on the records, even in LP re-issues.

He used his enhanced 78rpm transfers in a long-running radio programme Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo, first broadcast in May 1982 by ABC Radio and later carried by BBC Radio 2, amongst other stations.

His transfer of "Milenberg Joys" performed by McKinney's Cotton Pickers was adopted by him as the theme tune for his broadcasts.

He settled back in Britain and set up his own studio in Devon, and followed on from his radio show with a series of vintage record transfers under the banners Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo and The Classic Years in Digital Stereo.


This is the third of four CDs in the Robert Parker series that reissues a cross section of early jazz recordings from a regional area. The music ranges from the famous (Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington) to the lesser known (Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten, Lloyd Scott and Freddy Jenkins). Veteran collectors will prefer to skip this sampler and get the complete sessions elsewhere but listeners just beginning to explore early jazz should find these early recordings (which range from pre-swing to some heated jams) worth investigating. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Track List

01 Jelly-Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers: Burnin' The Iceberg
02 King Oliver & His Orchestra: Strugglebuggy
03 Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra: Sugar Foot Stomp
04 Bessie Smith Accompanied By James P. Johnson: Lock And Key
05 Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra: San
06 Miff Mole & His Little Molers: Imagination
07 Eddie Condon & His Footwarmers: Makin' Friends
08 Fats Waller & His Buddies: The Minor Drag
09 Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
10 Charlie Johnson & His Orchestra: Hot Bones & Rice
11 Luis Russell & His Orchestra: Dr. Blues
12 Fess Williams & His Royal Flush Orchestra: Feelin' Devilish
13 Lloyd Scott's Orchestra: Happy Hour
14 Casa Loma Orchestra, The: Casa Loma Stomp
15 Jungle Band, The: Dog Bottom
16 Cab Calloway & His Orchestra: Minnie The Moocher
17 Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra: Stratosphere
18 Clarence Williams' Washboard Five: Cushion Foot Stomp
19 Freddie Jenkins & His Harlem Seven: I Can't Dance
20 Eddie Lang - Joe Venuti & Their All Star Orchestra: Farewell Blues

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Grappelli & Venuti: Venupelli Blues

Un poco de nostalgia -y de swing- para disipar la tontería postvacacional.
Hace ma o meno unos 30 abriles, allá por el verano de 1980, mientras en la radio sonaban no sólo esas moderneces madrileñas hoy tan "legendarias" para los políticos y el pueblo lanar, sino también cosas de Bob Marley, Ritchie Havens o Vinicius de Moraes, casi al mismo tiempo que tuve a bien descubrir el sorprendente swing europeo (Django Reinhardt) o el laberinto de Thelonious Monk, pasé por una repentina obsesión por los violines y los fiddles que, naturalmente, dejó una huella bastante profunda -y no sólo en mi inseparable colección de cassettes. Bluegrass y Old Time (el mejor antídoto contra la pereza), las suites y los conciertos de Bach (mano de santo), Paganini por Salvatore Accardo (inolvidable), los Hermanos Balfa a ritmo de vals cajun y two-step, y otras maravillas varias (algún día dedicaremos una entradita a los fiddles de Blues, por ejemplo). Y, cómo no, el maestro Grappelli.

Sí, la discografía de Monsieur Grappelli no es moco de pavo, pero con el debido respeto al Quintette Du Hot Club de France y demás, debo decir que esta saludable reunión con el maestro americano, el gran Joe Venuti, y la inestimable cooperación de George Wein al piano y Barney Kessell a la guitarra, puede ser tranquilamente la guinda de todo el pastel. Aunque la grabación original es de 1969 (pocos meses después de otra magnífica reunión con Kessell, "Limehouse Blues"), el disco se editó en España once años después, en una serie de Affinity entre maravillas de Coltrane o Wes Montgomery en directo, por cierto. Y, bueno, ahí está. Sólo hagan la prueba con una tía-abuela que no sepa nada de jazz o alguien similar: pónganle ese "I Can't Give You" o ese vertiginoso "After You've Gone" unos instantes y verán si no acaba convertida al Evangelio del Swing per secula seculorum...

1- I Can't Give Anything But Love :-O

2- My One And Only Love

3- After You've Gone :-O
4-Undecided

5-Venupelli Blues

6-Tea For Two

7-I'll Never Be The Same

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