Description
Release Date: 1994
Label: Frog Records
Track List
New Orleans Owls
1 Stomp Off, Let’s Go
2 Oh Me! Oh My!
3 The Owl’s Hoot
4 Piccadilly
5 Temperance
6 Dynamite
7 Pretty Baby
8 West End Romp
9 Blowin’ Off Steam
10 White Ghost Shivers
11 The Nightmare
12 Brotherly Love
13 Eccentric
14 That’s A Plenty
15 Meat On The Table
16 The New Twister
17 Goose Pimples
18 Throwin’ The Horns
New Orleans Rhythm Kings
19 She’s Crying’ For Me
20 She’s Crying’ For Me
21 Everybody Loves Somebody Blues
22 Everybody Loves Somebody Blues
John Hyman’s Bayou Stompers
23 Ain’t Love Grand?
24 Ain’t Love Grand?
25 Alligator Blues
26 Alligator Blues
Personnel
New Orleans Owls
Brass Bass – Dan LeBlanc Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Irvine “Pinky” Vidacovich Clarinet,Cornet – Bill Padron Drums, Leader – Earl Crumb Guitar Banjo [Banjo Guitar] – Rene Gelpi Piano – Edward “Mose” Ferrer Tenor Saxophone – Lester Smith Trombone – Frank Netto
New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Banjo – Bill Eastwood Brass Bass – Chink Martin Clarinet – Charles Cordilla Cornet – Paul Mares Drums – Leo Adde Piano – Glyn Lea “Red” Long Trombone – Santo Pecora
John Hyman’s Bayou Stompers
Clarinet – Elery Maser Cornet – John Hyman Drums – Monk Hazel Guitar – Nappy Lamare Harmonica – Alvin Gautreaux Piano – Horace Diaz Trombone – Charles Hartman
Notes
That’s followed by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings recordings made by Victor in New Orleans in March 1925, when that group recreated two of the numbers recorded two months earlier for Okeh, albeit that clarinetist Leon Roppolo had been replaced by Charlie Cordella, who’d played tenor sax on the earlier date. Both issued of each number are included, and although these are not as well known as the Okeh recordings they are still impressive testaments to the NORK’s great ensemble sound, particularly in the rideout of “She’s Crying For Me”, and the virtuosity of its soloists.
The compilation concludes with the two Victor recordings made in New Orleans by John Hyman’s Bayou Stompers in March 1927. It presents the authentic sound of early white New Orleans jazz, and the recordings deserve to be more widely known.