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Stuff Smith - 1939-1944 (1999)

Исполнитель: Stuff Smith
Название альбома: 1939-1944
Год выпуска: 1999, Classics
Формат файлов: Мр3, 320
Размер архива: 157 МВ
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This segment of the Stuff Smith story finds the fiddler facing personal and professional difficulties that prevented him from recording as much as he'd have liked to. The music that did get committed to wax is more or less uniformly satisfying. The first five selections heard here benefit greatly from the presence of trumpet ace Jonah Jones. "Big Wig in the Wigwam," a song with little redeeming social value when presented by Lionel Hampton, became a solid piece of swing when Stuff's band got a hold of it. Here it bristles with elements of "Diga Diga Doo" and Stuff's earlier rowdy masterpiece "Old Joe's Hittin' the Jug." Four titles released on the budget Varsity label in 1940 include a Grenadine-flavored sob story by Stella Brooks, two high-spirited group vocals, and a wild "Crescendo in Drums," with violin improvisations that seem like premonitions of the sound currents that Leroy Jenkins would be generating with his violin many years later. In November of 1943, Stuff Smith & His Trio made ten sides for the World Broadcasting Service, with Stuff's solos resembling some of Eddie South's best work, with flourishing touches worthy of Florian Zabach. Featured here and on the following two sessions were bassist John Levy and pianist Jimmy Jones, both excellent improvisers who were perfectly suited to Stuff Smith's style and persona. A quartet date with amplified guitarist Mary Osborne sports a pair of modernistic studies in blue, and the vocal duet between Stuff and Osbourne is deservedly famous among people who are interested in historical collaborations. This fine CD closes with six additional trio sides produced by Moses Asch, sounding pleasantly progressive for 1944.
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1. Big Wig in the Wigwam (2:40)
2. It's Up to You (2:56)
3. I've Got You Under My Skin (2:46)
4. Crescendo in Drums (2:47)
5. Joshua (3:21)
6. Humoresque (2:32)
7. A Ghost of a Chance (2:56)
8. Minuet in Swing (2:18)
9. The Red Jumps (2:25)
10. Melody in F (2:25)
11. She's Funny That Way (2:58)
12. To a Wild Rose (2:30)
13. Bugle Call Rag (2:13)
14. Desert Sands (3:20)
15. La Cinquantaine (2:09)
16. Blues in Mary's Flat (2:46)
17. Blues in Stuff's Flat (2:55)
18. I Got Rhythm (3:07)
19. Sweet Lorraine (2:45)
20. Midway (2:12)
21. Look at Me (2:52)
22. Skip It (2:25)
23. Stop - Look (2:58)
24. Don't You Think (2:52)
25. Desert Sands (2:41)

June 29, 1939 - September 8, 1944

Bernard Addison - Guitar
Sam Allen - Composer, Piano
Stella Brooks - Vocals
John Brown - Bass
George Clarke - Sax (Tenor)
Eric Henry - Piano
Jimmy Jones - Piano
Jonah Jones - Trumpet, Tuba
John Levy - Bass
Mary Osborne - Composer, Guitar, Viola, Vocals
Stuff Smith - Composer, Viola, Violin, Vocals

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