Description
Release Date: 2014
Label: Acrobat Music
Track List
Disc 1
1 Steady Roll Blues Bucktown Five
2 Why Can’t It Be Poor Little Me The Stomp Six
3 I Found A New Baby Chicago Rhythm Kings
4 Darktown Strutters Ball The Jungle Kings
5 Jazz Me Blues Charles Pierce And His Orchestra
6 That’s A Plenty Ray Miller
7 Wabash Blues Ted Lewis & His Orch.
8 It’s A Lonesome Old Town Seger Ellis
9 Royal Garden Blues Ted Lewis & His Orch.
10 I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me Mound City Blowers
11 (Oh Susannah) Dust off That Old Pianna New Orleans Rhythm Kings
12 St. Louis Blues The Rhythm Wreckers with Whitey McPherson
13 Alice Blue Gown Ben Pollack & His Pick-A-Rib Boys
14 Big Butter And Egg Man Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
15 Someday Sweetheart Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
16 Eccentric Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
17 That Da Da Strain Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
18 At The Jazz Band Ball Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
19 I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
20 Dipper Mouth Blues Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
21 Livery Stable Blues Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
22 Riverboat Shuffle Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
23 Relaxin’ At The Touro Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
24 At Sundown Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
25 Bluin’ The Blues Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
26 Lonesome Road Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
Disc 2
1 Dinah Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
2 (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
3 Mandy, Make Up Your Mind Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtime Band
4 Four Or Five Times Bechet/Spanier Big Four
5 Sweet Lorraine Bechet/Spanier Big Four
6 Lazy River Bechet/Spanier Big Four
7 China Boy Bechet/Spanier Big Four
8 If I Could Be With You Bechet/Spanier Big Four
9 That’s A Plenty Bechet/Spanier Big Four
10 Squeeze Me Bechet/Spanier Big Four
11 Sweet Sue, Just You Bechet/Spanier Big Four
12 Down To Steamboat Tennessee Lee Wiley
13 Cow Cow Blues Bob Crosby & His Orch.
14 Hesitating Blues Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtimers
15 Angry Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtimers
16 September In The Rain Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtimers
17 Memphis Blues Muggsy Spanier & His Ragtime Band
18 Cherry Muggsy Spanier And His V-Disc Jazz Band
19 Am I Blue Muggsy Spanier And His Orchestra
20 Muskrat Ramble Really The Blues Concert
21 Washington And Lee Swing Muggsy Spanier & His Jazz Ltd. Orchestra
Notes
Muggsy Spanier was one of the most prominent cornettists in Dixieland jazz, enjoying a career which began in the early ‘20s and spanned more than four decades. He stayed true to the traditions of music he grew up with, his forceful and uncomplicated style enabling him to lead ensembles with passion and intensity. He effectively defined the repertoire and approach of the Dixieland revival movement with 16 recordings by his Ragtime Band in late 1939. Those recordings are all included in this great value 47-track collection in our Fabulous label Jazz legends series, which covers the full first quarter-century of his recording career. It naturally includes many recordings by bands which he led, but also features fascinating tracks from early in his career with a variety of occasional line-ups as well as from his regular gig in the ‘30s with Ted Lewis. It also includes collaborations with many of the true luminaries of the genre, notably in Sidney Bechet’s Big Four, and with the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Bob Crosby and Ben Pollack, plus a gem of track as he accompanies singer Lee Wiley. It’s an admirable showcase of his work when he laid the laid the groundwork for the New Orleans revival in which he participated during the ‘50s and ‘60s.
