 Исполнитель: Fess Williams Название альбома: Pre-Victors, The Complete Set 1925-1927 Год выпуска: 2007, Retrieval Records Формат файлов: Mp3, 192 Размер архива: 101 Mb Скачать с: rusfolder
Fess Williams led bands in both Chicago and New York in the 1920s and early 1930s. He seemed to model himself after Ted Lewis wearing a top hat and playing a slap tongue, gaspipe clarinet style and alto saxophone that is reminiscent of Lewis' playing, but with often more interesting and creative results. Williams' song Hot Town was the band's biggest selling record and it is a really good Hot Jazz anthem. Fess also cut a record under the name of Fess Williams and his Joy Boys while leading a band at the Regal Theatre (4719 South Parkway Blvd.) in Chicago in 1928. The Royal Flush band continued to play at the Savoy while he was in Chicago. Williams was also the uncle of modern jazz great Charles Mingus. Mingus invited his uncle to perform a set in his 1962 Town Hall concert in New York. Williams assembled a seven piece band that included some of Williams' old band mates as well as members of Mingus' band including Eric Dolphy. Williams' demonstration of his "circular breathing" alto saxophone technique which allowed him to hold notes indefinitely was a real crowd pleaser.
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Retrieval, one of the early 21st century's finest classic jazz reissue labels, presents most but not all of the records Fess Williams made as a bandleader before he became a Victor recording artist in April of 1929. A phrase like "The Complete Set" (used by Retrieval on other equally fine collections) is pleasantly misleading, as several "Pre-Victor" titles were omitted, but who cares! Here are 24 decidedly rare early Fess Williams recordings, cut between October 1925 and June 1927 for the Gennett, Vocalion, and Brunswick labels. Williams was a more or less vaudevillian performer whose lively vocals, slap tongue sax, and clarinet technique was appropriate for the lighthearted hot jazz arrangements used by his Royal Flush Orchestra. Players have been identified as trumpeters George Temple and Kenneth Roane; trombonist David "Jelly" James; reedmen Perry Smith and Otto Mikell; brass bassist Clinton Walker, pianist Henry Duncan, banjoist Ollie Blackwell, and drummer Ralph Bedell. You'll find most everything here to be zippy, flamboyant, and peculiarly uplifting. The Royal Flush sound may bring to mind the Washingtonians, the early Fletcher Henderson and Luis Russell orchestras, various groups led by cornetist Thomas Morris, or Bix Beiderbecke & the Wolverines. The band book contains tunes associated with Cook's Dreamland Orchestra and cornetist Freddie Keppard ("High Fever" and "Messin' Around"); with Louis Armstrong's Hot Five ("Heebie Jeebies"), Fletcher Henderson ("Variety Stomp"); pianist Arthur Schutt, who composed the "Green River Blues," and Fats Waller, who wrote the "Alligator Crawl." If you've been feeling abused by everyday life in the post-industrial future, this scrumptious slice of long-overlooked early jazz might be just exactly what you need.
01. Green River Blues
02. Caroline
03. Some Other Time
04. Wimmin - Aah!
05. Caroline
06. Make Me Know It - If You Mean What You Say
07. Make Me Know It
08. My Mamma's In Town
09. It's Breaking My Heart To Keep Away From You
10. Ya Gotta Know How To Love
11. Messin' Around
12. Heebie Jeebies
13. High Fever
14. Atlanta Black Bottom
15. White Ghost Shivers
16. My Pretty Girl
17. Gambler's Blues
18. I Wasn't Scared, But I Just Thought I Had Better Go
19. Variety Stomp
20. Phantom Blues
21. Alligator Crawl
22. Ozark Blues
23. Number Ten
24. Razor Edge
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Ну и еще Razor Edge, хотя повторюсь, почти все вещи хороши, только блюзы не очень, может потому что блюзовые блюзы тех же двадцатых ни мало послушал