In selecting these three, I went to my archives/history and up came about six songs we've not heard much of at N.O. Had to pick three and two were fairly easy but one song kept going around my mind all day - it's just a cut above so much else in variation and groove:
Preservationhall01, the uploader, noted:
Jungle Blues was recorded for the Victor label on 7-4-27. Victor was getting into race records and was looking for talent. Morton put together a group who could play the New Orleans "Hot Style" from Lil Hardin's disbanded Dreamland Syncopaters who had headlined at the Dreamland Cafe in Chicago. These '26 and '27 tracts are considered the first of the hot style jazz records and historian David McGee states that these recordings are to jazz what Elvis Presley's Sun recordings were to rock and roll. An error in this vid: John Lindsay credited with string bass. There was no string bass at this session. Bass is provided by Quinn Wilson on tuba. Thanks to RNMUSIK for pointing out that error.
Recorded at the Victor Talking Machine Co. Studios, 925 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. V21345A, July 4, 1927
Waaay off topic James. Are you following the football this afternoon? I am a Villa fan and you have mentioned a liking for Liverpool. This must be the only current event that couldn't possibly be scripted, or could it?
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ReplyDeleteWhy could Villa not get the job done? Oh well.
ReplyDeleteMore and more, I am beginnig to think that match-fixing has become the norm in 'professional' football. Meanwhile the UK govt has much to answer for in Ukraine;
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All good for me. Jungle Blues tops maybe, but I always enjoy Jelly.
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