Time 78.46

TRACKS

1.Here Comes Emily Brown - 2. Wasn’t It Nice? – 3. Loving You The Way I Do – 4. You’re Lucky To Me – 5. You’re Lucky To Me - 6. My Angeline – 7. Don’t Mess Around With Me – 8. Swanee Shuffle – 9. Gotta Have You – 10. Gotta Feelin’ For You – 11. Low Down Rhythm – 12. Harlem Madness – 13. Navy Blues – 14. Red Hot Chicago – 15. Chinnin’ and Chattin’ with May – 16 Collegiate Love – 17. Accordion Joe – 18. I Was Made To Love You – 19. The Man From The South – 20. St James Infirmary – 21. Mysterious Mose – 22. Bessie Couldn’t Help It – 23. On Revival Day – 24. On Revival Day - 25. There’s A Wah-Wah Girl In Agua Caliente

PERSONNEL

1-5, The Charleston Chasers - Phil Napoleon (tpt); Tommy Dorsey (tmb); Benny Goodman (cl); Arthur Schutt (pno); Ward Lay (str bs); Stan King (drms); Eddie Walters (vcl with ukulele on 2); Jimmy Dorsey (cl 4, alto 5); Frank Signorelli (pno 3-5); Eva Taylor (vcl 3-5)

6-7. Mississippi Maulers – Leo McConville, Bill Moore (tpt); Tommy Dorsey (tmb); Dudley Fosdick (mello); Fud Livingstone (reeds); Joe Venuti (violin); Frank Signorelli (pno); Eddie Lang (gtr); Joe Tarto (brass bs); Stan King (drms); Roy Evans (vcl)

8-9. Midnight Airedailes - Red Nichols (tpt ldr); Mickey Bloom, Tommy Thunen (tpt); Glenn Miller (tmb); 2 Unknown (alto); Fud Livingstone (reeds); Henry Whiteman or Maurice Goffin (violin); Rube Bloom ? (pno); Joe Tarto (brass bs); Gene Krupa (drms); Red McKenzie (vcl)

10-15. The Hot Air Men - Phil Napoleon (tpt); Carl Loeffler (tmb); Pete Pumiglio (reeds) Chauncey Gray (pno); Tommy Felline (gtr); Ward Lay (str bs); Stan King (drms); Roy Evans (vcl 14); Ed Kirkeby (vcl 15)

16-18. Cornell and his Orchestra – Leo McConville, Joe Lindwurm (tpt); Jack Teagarden (tmb); Jimmy Dorsey (reeds); Fletcher Hereford (alto); Adrian Rollini (bs sax); Cornel Smelser (accordion); Irving Brodsky (pno); Dick McDonough; (gtr); Tex Hurst (str bs); Stan King (drms) Artie Dunn (vcl 17-18)

19-25. Rube Bloom and his Bayou Boys – Manny Klein (tpt); Tommy Dorsey (tmb); Benny Goodman (cl, alto 21-22); Adrian Rollini (bs sax, goofus 22 & 25); Rube Bloom (pno); Stan King (drms); Roy Evans, Eddie Walters (vcl); Jack Purvis (tpt replace Klein 23-25); Dick McDonough (gtr replace unknowns added 21 & 22)

There is a 28-paged booklet including ten photographs of jazz artists, a detailed, comprehensive, informative set of liner notes by Ate van Delden, and a miniature page of sheet music The Man From The South by the Skidmore Music Company, New York, accompanying this 81^st album of this “Timeless Historical” series.

Previous titles are listed in this booklet. Nine credit names. The sound quality covering the total number of songs is first class. One thing that stood out striking to me was the style, 20s Charleston period-voice of all vocalists including the effective yodelling by Roy Evans, which adds flavour to the album.

Noting that the Wall Street Crash of 1929 happened right in the middle of when Columbia cut most of these recordings, followed by “The Depression”. Luck and Timeless Records would have it now to possess them.

There are two double takes on the CD which brings emphasis to the alto of Jimmy Dorsey, and, “two loving arms, as anyone can see” on the voice of Eva Taylor in You’re Lucky To Me – that, I found rewarding.

One need only take a close look at the line-up of these six groups to see that they carry professional musicians of the highest order, who had to be experienced sight readers to take part in New York studio groups, and there is no mistaking of that on this album.

Noticeable is the technique of string bassist Ward Lay with “The Charleston Chasers” and how it becomes more empowered with “The Hot Air Men” all groups being driven by the same skilful drummer on all songs but two, and that goes far, to make the CD extremely listen-able from beginning to end.

There is a wealth of musical content for many to make favourites of, and I’ll pick the sailors’ hornpipe tune of Navy Blues providing a very high standard of playing that the American shipmates afloat today can be proud – of note, is for one to try and match the Pete Pumiglio alto here with the former mentioned altoist, to make it an invaluable exercise for the adventurists.

I could not get enough of the Adrian Rollini bass saxophone, who brought the goofus into play on Bessie Couldn’t Help It and There’s A Wah-Wah Girl In Agua Caliente. The Goofus being a 1920s French keyboard harmonica invention which comes over well on these two songs, enhanced by vocalist Eddie Walters on Wah-Wah - Oh! What a gal is this Caliente girl!

Whether your choice is for the Joe Venuti - Eddie Lang team on My Angeline and Don’t Mess Around With Me or you go for Chinnin’ And Chattin’ With May or, indeed for them all, that will be a no bad choice – a choice that is all yours.

Ian King

Kings Jazz Review

Monday 4 March 2002