 Исполнитель: Snoozer Quinn, Johny Wiggs Название альбома: The Legendary Snoozer Quinn with Johny Wiggs Год выпуска: 1969, Fat Cat's Jazz Формат файлов: Mp3, 192 Размер архива: 61 Mb Скачать с: dfiles
Cornetist Johnny Wiggs was born John Wigginton Hyman on July 25, 1899, in New Orleans, LA. He began his music career playing the violin, but he learned the cornet and moved to New York City to try his luck in their local scene. He moved back to Louisiana in the late '20s, working as a public school teacher under his real name while moonlighting as Johnny Wiggs at local jazz clubs. He gained a reputation not only as a good player, but one of the few Jewish cornet players in jazz at the time. He tried to separate his teaching and music careers as much as possible, but by the '40s the lure of the stage was too much and he took up music full-time again. He led several bands and began to record, finding local success as well as a good musical partnership with Eddie Miller for a period. By the '60s he went back to playing part-time again, but he still recorded and found time to work with Maxine Sullivan on her material. He stopped playing in the '70s due to deteriorating health, and in October of 1977 he passed away a relatively unknown figure in the genre, despite his impressive body of work.
There are very few audio recordings available of Snoozer Quinn. To modern day finger-style guitarists, the discovery of new recordings of Quinn would be, to quote Al Rose (and with respects to Jake Booze), “roughly the equivalent of telling Van Cliburn that you’ve found a Franz Liszt piano roll.”
There are many unresolved issues in Snoozer’s recording career. His known discography, compiled by Brian Rust and later added to by Tor Magnusson and Don Peak for the Jazz Archivist, reflects that “Snoozer Quinn made quite a number of recordings.” Tragically, many of these recordings were never released and are now lost – such as solo sides recorded for Victor in 1928 and a session with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer recorded for Columbia in late 1928. Of the recordings that are available, Snoozer is playing as accompaniment in big orchestras or to vocalists like Bee Palmer and Jimmie Davis.
Thankfully, Johnny Wiggs, a cornetist, New Orleans public school teacher, and Snoozer’s old band mate, recorded Snoozer just before he died. These records, now on file in the Louisiana State Museum at the U.S. Mint, and available for listening here, were made in 1948 (Snoozer died in 1949) in the tuberculosis section of New Orleans Charity Hospital. Snoozer was weak and would die soon after. Though the setting was distracting and the recording equipment was amateurish, these recordings of Snoozer Quinn give us some glimpse of his talent. Say Magnusson and Peak, “Quinn’s 1948 recordings are of very high class, and if he could play that well at the end of his life, and in the later stages of tuberculosis, then he must have been exceptionally good in his prime.”
This entire session was eventually released as an LP record album by a small jazz label called “Fat Cat Jazz Records” out of Manassas, Va. The Legendary Snoozer Quinn with Johnny Wiggs received a rating of five stars in a record review in Down Beat in 1969.
Side One
1. Nobody’s Sweetheart
2. Georgia on My Mind/Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
3. Singin’ the Blues #1
4. Singin’ the Blues #2
5. You Took Advantage of Me
6. Snoozer’s Wanderings
Side Two
1. Snoozer’s Telephone Blues
2. Clarinet Marmalade
3. Out of Nowhere
4. After You’ve Gone
5. Lover Come Back to Me/On the Alamo
6. My Melancholy Baby
Recorded in New Orleans, LA 1948
Cornet – Johnny Wiggs (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B2, B4, B6)
Guitar – Snoozer Quinn
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