Description
Release Date: 2011
Label: Jazz Oracle
Track List
1 –Merritt Brunies And His Friars Inn Orchestra Up Jumped The Devil
2 –Merritt Brunies And His Friars Inn Orchestra Follow The Swallow
3 –Merritt Brunies And His Friars Inn Orchestra Angry
4 –Merritt Brunies And His Friars Inn Orchestra (I Don’t Know Why) I Weep Over You
5 –Merritt Brunies And His Friars Inn Orchestra Flag That Train
6 –Merritt Brunies And His Friars Inn Orchestra Clarinet Marmalade
7 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* Sugar Foot Stomp
8 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* Want A Little Lovin’
9 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* She’s Got ‘Em
10 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* Up Jumped The Devil
11 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* I’m As Blue As The Blue Grass Of Kentucky
12 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* When Autumn Leaves Are Falling
13 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* Flamin’ Mamie
14 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* Hangin’ Around
15 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* Up Jumped The Devil
16 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* Masculine Women!
17 –Merritt Brunies And His Friar’s Inn Orchestra* Someone’s Stolen My Sweet, Sweet Baby
18 –Johnny De Droit And His New Orleans Orchestra Eccentric
19 –Papalia And His Orchestra* Cross-Word Mama You’re Puzzling Me
20 –Papalia And His Orchestra* Sometime When You’re Alone
21 –Brownlee’s Orchestra of New Orleans Peculiar
22 –Brownlee’s Orchestra of New Orleans Dirty Rag
23 –The Scranton Sirens Orchestra Why Should I Believe In You?
24 –The Scranton Sirens Orchestra Common Street Blues
25 –New Orleans Owls Oh Me! Oh My
26 –Ellis Stratakos And His Jung Hotel Orchestra A Precious Little Thing Called Love
27 –Ellis Stratakos And His Jung Hotel Orchestra Weary River
Notes
Cornet, trombone. Member of legendary New Orleans musical family. Merritt Brunies was a traditional jazz bandleader in New Orleans and Chicago from 1916 – 1918, and headed a grroup called The Original New Orleans Jazz Band. This group did not record, but it predated Jimmy Durante’s New Orleans Jazz Band which was formed in New York in 1918, and The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, which played in Chicago in 1916 and became the first group to record in 1917. After his first group disbanded, Brunies played cornet and led the ensemble that replaced The New Orleans Rhythm Kings at Friar’s Inn in Chicago. He returned to New Orleans in 1930 and played in various clubs. Brunies relocated to Mississippi in 1946, and played in The Brunies Brothers Dixieland Jazz Band for the rest of his career.
