Description
Release Date: 2005
Label: Retrieval
Track List
1 Cutie Blues 2:48
2 Chinaman Blues 3:10
3 Scissor Grinder Joe 2:54
4 Lonely Little Wall Flower 2:30
5 So This Is Venice 2:32
6 Moanful Man 2:39
7 The Memphis Maybe Man 2:40
8 The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else) 2:31
9 Messin’ Around 2:31
10 High Fever 3:03
11 Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man 3:11
12 Love Found You For Me 3:11
13 Here Comes The Hot Tamale Man 3:02
14 Brown Sugar 2:45
15 High Fever 2:52
16 Spanish Mamma 2:57
17 Sidewalk Blues 2:42
18 Alligator Crawl 3:03
19 Willie The Weeper 2:59
20 Brainstorm 3:09
21 Slue-Foot Sanders 2:32
22 Stock Yards Strut 2:30
23 Salty Dog 2:42
24 Salty Dog 2:35
Notes
One of the New Orleans cornet “kings” (succeeding Buddy Bolden and preceding King Oliver), Freddie Keppard was one of the few innovators of the 1910 era who had a chance to record later on, giving listeners a glimpse of his abilities. Keppard was active from around 1906, leading the Olympia Orchestra and freelancing in New Orleans. In 1914, he helped bring jazz to Los Angeles with his Original Creole Band. After settling in Chicago in the early ’20s, Keppard worked with Doc Cook’s Dreamland Orchestra (with whom he recorded on several occasions), Erskine Tate, Ollie Powers, and Charles Elgar. He could have been the first jazz musician to record (back in 1916), but passed on the opportunity because he was afraid that competitors would steal his ideas. Keppard did record between 1923-1927 (his best sides were with his own Jazz Cardinals, particularly “Stock Yard Strut”) and those performances feature him using a staccato phrasing influenced by brass bands and displaying a spirited tone.
