Recorded in London in 1965 with a line-up featuring George "Kid Sheik" Cola (trumpet & vocal), John Handy (alto & vocal), Cuff Billett (trumpet & vocal), Pete Dyer (trombone), Richard Simmons (piano), Brian Turnock (string bass) and Barry Martyn. Track listing: Rebecca, Last Night on the Back Porch, Ice Cream, Black and Blue, Eh La Bas, in the Groove, Little Richard's Blues, Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet, Panama, in the Gutter, Bye Bye Blackbird.
In 1960, when the music on this CD was originally recorded and released, Joe and Susie Edwards - Butterbeans & Susie - were on the tail end of a phenomenal 50-year-long career as a husband-and-wife comedy team. During the mid-to-late 1920s, when vaudeville was at it's height, and the TOBA circuit was in it's glory, this duo ruled the whole rowdy world of husband-and-wife comedy. This CD contains the entire original LP plus additional informal dialogue and interviews. Features Eddie Heywood, Leonard Gaskin, Jimmy Crawford, Joe Thomas, Gene Sedric, Benny Morton, Dick Vance, Earl Warren and Dickie Wells. Includes: Ballin' the Jack/ Get Yourself a Monkey Man/ There'll Be Some Changes Made/ Construction Gang/ I've Got the Blues for Home Sweet Home/ a Married Man's a Fool/ When My Man Shimmies/ Deal Yourself Another Hand/ Street Piano/ Unitl the Real Thing Comes Along and several interviews.
Here's a World Transcription session of Bunk's plus his only recordings with a fella they called Satchmo! Those live tracks join a 1938 Saturday Night Swing Club broadcast; Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden and Sidney Bechet play too as you hear I Got Rhythm; Jeepers Creepers; Tiger Rag; Basin Street Blues; Panama; Goodbye, and more.
Featuring: Lew Green, cornet, Ernie Carson, cornet, John Cooper, piano, Wayne Jones, drums, Tom Bartlett, trombone, Kim Cusack, clarinet, Mike Walbridge, tuba, Jack Kuncl, banjo, Carol Leigh, vocals, Jim Williams, vocals, the Turk Murphy Band on 2 selections, 1982. Track Listing: Beale Street Blues, New Orleans Stomp, Strut Miss Lizzie, Nobody's Blues But Mine, Oh Sister!, Georgia Swing, Salty Dog, the Glory land, Friendless Blues, from Monday On, Friend with Pleasure, Jelly Bean Blues, Sweet Man, Panama, Bay City.
Clarinetist Pierre Claessens meets with the legendary trumpeter Lionel Ferbos (well into his '90s) on this 16 track album recorded in April of 2005. Features Bruno Van Acoleyen, Trumpet; Vincent Van Elferen, Trombone; Dag; Benend, Banjo; Paul Brandes, String Bass; Philippe Desmet, Drums.
Featuring: Bob Barnard, cnt, Frank Traynor, tbn, Fred Parkes, clt, Graham Coyle, pno, Peter Cleaver, bjo, Ron Williamson, tbs, Len Barnard, drs, and many more: 1952-1973. Track Listing: 1919 March, Snag It, King of the Zulus, Brown Skin Mama, It's Tigh Jim, Original Georgia Grind, Working Man Blues, Cushion Foot Stomp, Sunset Cafe Stomp, Georgia Grind, Flat Foot, That's My Home, Plenty of Love, Hiawatha, Elmer Denfield, Kelly's Deal, Brown Bottom Bess, Takin' No Risks, Got the Shakes, Perfect Rag, Spinner, Once in a While, Sweet Papa, Texas Moaner Blues, 78:40.
Featuring: Jack Carrel, tpt, Jim Snyder, tbn, Buzz Reynolds, clt, John Cooper, pno, Dick Karner, drs, Randy Wilkinson, bjo, Bob Rann, tba. Track Listing: Big Butter & Egg Man, Some of These Days, Cakewalking Babies, Dippermouth Blues, Jazzin' Babies, Shake That Thing: Sweet Georgia Brown, Wild Man Blues, Clarinet Marmalade, Blues My Naughtie Sweetie, a Closer Walk with Thee, Bourbon Street Parade, Beale Street Mama, Sobbin' Blues, Buddy Bolden Blues, Canal Street Blues, Curse of An Aching Heart, 73:57.
The session on this album was recorded in 1970 and previously issued on LP. This 16 track CD combines bonus material from another session and showcases Jean singing the blues with the Boll Weevil Jass Band featuring Dan Havens, Bob Shanahan, Frank Powers, Mike Montgomery, John Teach out and others.
This CD reissue combines two long-out-of-print LPs from the Southbound label: "Dreaming Down the River to New Orleans" and "Shades of New Orleans." It features Thomas Jefferson, Jim Robinson, Frog Joseph, Raymond Burke, Louis Cottrell, Sam Dutrey, Stanley Mendelson (who just passed away), Lester Santiago, Joe Coprano, Placide and Jerry Adams, Paul Barbarin, Monk Hazel, and Sister Elizabeth Eustis and her choir.
Sweet Mary Cat is a band from Lyon, France that plays in the authentic New Orleans tradition. Led by drummer Marie Dandrieu, the band features Christian Genin, Patrick Molton, Jean-Pierre Alessi and others. Recorded live in Sept. 2000 in France, this CD also features special guests Tony Taylor on bass and Barbara Widmer on piano.
Recorded during one of Barry Martyn's tours of Europe, this is a live concert album featuring Barry Martyn's popular touring band of the 1970s, including Andrew Blakeney on trumpet, Louis Nelson on trombone, Joe "Cornbread" Thomas on clarinet, Alton Purnell on piano, Ed Garland on bass and Barry on drums.
