Gennett Jazz 1922-1930

by N/A

Overview

Great Britain's JSP imprint is well-known for its often-exhaustive boxed sets, for single as well as multiple artists, and this one, which covers the Gennett imprint form Indiana in the 1920s, is no exception. While this box doesn't include the complete catalog of the legendary (if little known by all but early jazz collectors) imprint, it does offer a massive sampling of the 1,250 records they released between the label's founding in 1922 right on through to its final releases in 1930. Some of the artists represented here include King Oliver, the Friars Society Orchestra, Watson's Pullman Porters, Josephine Beatty, Bailey's Lucky Seven, the Bucktown Five, Ladd's Black Aces, Alberta Hunter, Jelly Roll Morton, and the Red Onion Jazz Babies, to name a few. This set is basically a must for fans of early jazz. It marks the very first time many of the selections have appeared on CD, and is the first such compilation of the label in a digital format. JSP releases are all remastered, and fully annotated with discographical information, and this one is no exception. There is a fine historical liner essay by Pat Harrison, as well. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	11/10/2009
Label:	Jsp / Jsp Records
UPC:	0788065906221
Rank:	96028

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Eccentric  -  Friars Society Orchestra
2. Farewell Blues  -  Friars Society Orchestra
3. Discontented Blues  -  Friars Society Orchestra
4. Bugle Call Blues  -  Friars Society Orchestra
5. Panama  -  Friars Society Orchestra
6. Tiger Rag  -  Friars Society Orchestra
7. Boo Hoo Hoo
8. Tiger Rag
9. Stop Your Kidding  -  Ladd's Black Aces
10. You've Got to See Your Mama Every Night  -  Ladd's Black Aces
11. Runnin' Wild  -  Ladd's Black Aces
12. Nobody's Sweetheart  -  Ladd's Black Aces
13. Unfortunate Blues  -  Ladd's Black Aces
14. Jazz Me Blues  -  Wolverine Orchestra
15. Oh Baby  -  Wolverine Orchestra
16. Copenhagen  -  Wolverine Orchestra
17. Riverboat Shuffle  -  Wolverine Orchestra
18. Susie  -  Wolverine Orchestra
19. Sensation  -  Wolverine Orchestra
20. Lazy Daddy  -  Wolverine Orchestra
21. Big Boy  -  Wolverine Orchestra
22. Swingin' Down the Lane
23. Slue Foot
24. Bringing Home the Bacon  -  Windy City Jazzers
25. Hot Mittens  -  Bucktown Five
26. Charley My Boy
27. Steady Steppin' Papa

Disc 2

28. Just Gone  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
29. Canal Street Blues  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
30. Mandy Lee Blues  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
31. I'm Going Away to Wear You Off My Mind  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
32. Chimes Blues  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
33. Weather Bird Rag  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
34. Dipper Mouth Blues (Sugar Foot Stomp)  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
35. Froggie Moore  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
36. Snake Rag  -  King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
37. King Porter (A Stomp)  - Jelly Roll Morton
38. New Orleans (Blues) Joys  - Jelly Roll Morton
39. Grandpa's Spells (A Stomp)  - Jelly Roll Morton
40. Kansas City Stomp  - Jelly Roll Morton
41. Wolverine Blues (Joys)  - Jelly Roll Morton
42. The Pearls (A Stomp)  - Jelly Roll Morton
43. Terrible Blues  -  Red Onion Jazz Babies
44. Santa Claus Blues  -  Red Onion Jazz Babies
45. It's Breaking My Heart to Keep Away From You
46. Ya Gotta Know How to Love
47. Fourth Avenue Stomp
48. Barbecue Blues (F Sharp Blues)
49. Monte Carlo Joys  -  Vicksburg Blowers
50. Twin Blues  -  Vicksburg Blowers
51. Brown Jug Blues
52. Bass Blues

Disc 3

53. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel 'Dis Mornin'  - Josephine Beatty
54. Early Every Morn  - Josephine Beatty
55. Make That Gravel Fly  - Hattie Snow
56. Daddy What You Going to Do  - Hattie Snow
57. War Horse Mama  - Josie Miles
58. You Don't Know My Mind Blues  - Josie Miles
59. 31st Street Blues  - Josie Miles
60. Pipe Dream Blues  - Josie Miles
61. I'm Drifting From You Blues
62. A Woman Gets Tired of One Man All the Time
63. How Could I Be Blue?  - Elvira Johnson
64. Numbers on the Brain  - Elvira Johnson
65. Blues Rode Me All Night Long  - Bertha Ross
66. Lost Man Blues  - Bertha Ross
67. You Used to Be Sugar Blues  - Hattie Garland
68. Strange Woman's Dream  - Hattie Garland
69. Wild Geese Blues  - Alberta Jones
70. Red Beans and Rice  - Alberta Jones
71. East Coast Blues  - Lizzie Washington
72. Working Man Blues  - Lizzie Washington
73. Fall or Summer Blues  - Lizzie Washington
74. Sport Model Mamma Blues  - Lizzie Washington
75. If You Want to Keep Your Daddy Home  - Viola McCoy
76. Laughin' Cryin' Blues  - Viola McCoy
77. Midnight Blues (A Wee Hour Chant)  - Viola McCoy
78. Triflin' Blues (Daddy Don't You Trifle on Me)  - Viola McCoy

Disc 4

79. My Baby  -  State Street Ramblers
80. Pleasure Mad  -  State Street Ramblers
81. Oriental Man  -  State Street Ramblers
82. Some Do and Some Don't  -  State Street Ramblers
83. Tack It Down  -  State Street Ramblers
84. Endurance Stomp  -  State Street Ramblers
85. Yearning and Blue  -  State Street Ramblers
86. Someday You'll Know  -  State Street Ramblers
87. Pass the Jug  - Frank Melrose
88. Jelly Roll Stomp  - Frank Melrose
89. You've Got What I Want  - Irene Scruggs
90. My Back to the Wall  - Irene Scruggs
91. Make Me Know It
92. Mandy
93. Hum All Your Troubles Away
94. It's Tight Like That
95. Some of These Days  - George H. Tremer
96. Spirit of '49 Rag  - George H. Tremer
97. Chicken Supper Strut  -  Triangle Harmony Boys
98. Mississippi Shivers  - Sidney Williams
99. I Wonder Blues (I've Got the Wonder Blues)  -  Bailey's Lucky Seven
100. Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland  -  Bailey's Lucky Seven
101. Who Loved You Best  -  Bailey's Lucky Seven
102. "E Flat" Blues (Sic)
103. Original Charleston Strut
104. Jazzin' Babies Blues
105. Twelfth Street Rag

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Frank Melrose   Primary Artist,Piano
Alberta Jones   Primary Artist,Vocals
Bertha Ross   Primary Artist,Vocals
Ladd's Black Aces   Primary Artist
George H. Tremer   Primary Artist,Piano
Vicksburg Blowers   Primary Artist
Elvira Johnson   Primary Artist,Vocals
Bailey's Lucky Seven   Primary Artist
The Wolverine Orchestra   Primary Artist
Friars Society Orchestra   Primary Artist
State Street Ramblers   Primary Artist
Irene Scruggs   Primary Artist,Vocals
Sidney Williams   Primary Artist,Piano
Bucktown Five   Primary Artist
Hattie Garland   Primary Artist,Vocals
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band   Primary Artist
Hattie Snow   Primary Artist,Vocals
Viola McCoy   Primary Artist,Vocals
Josephine Beatty   Primary Artist
Jelly Roll Morton   Primary Artist,Piano
The Red Onion Jazz Babies   Primary Artist
Windy City Jazzers   Primary Artist
Lizzie Washington   Primary Artist,Vocals
Triangle Harmony Boys   Primary Artist
Josie Miles   Primary Artist,Vocals
Jack Pettis   Sax (Tenor),Sax
Bix Beiderbecke   Piano,Cornet
Fess Williams   Vocals,Clarinet,Director,Sax (Alto)
Dick Johnson   Brass Band,Sax (Alto),Sax (Tenor),Banjo,Drums,Piano,Clarinet
Sam Lanin   Director
Red Nichols   Trumpet
Miff Mole   Trombone
Hymie Farberman   Trumpet
Teddy Hill   Sax (Tenor),Sax (Soprano)
Paul Mares   Cornet
Sidney Bechet   Clarinet,Sax (Soprano)
Sy Oliver   Trumpet
Jimmy Lytell   Clarinet
Bill Johnson   Banjo,String Bass
Irving Brodsky   Piano
Min Leibrook   Brass Band
Zack Whyte & His Chocolate Beau Brummels   Banjo,Director
Fred Rollison   Cornet
Elmer Schoebel   Piano,Director
Fletcher Henderson   Piano
Ezra Buzzington's Rustic Revelers   Director,Swanee (Slide Whistle)
Buster Bailey   Clarinet
Hank Duncan   Piano
Herman Chittison   Piano
Adrian Rollini   Goofus,Sax (Baritone)
Larry Abbott   Clarinet,Sax (Alto)
Muggsy Spanier   Cornet
Al Sears   Sax (Tenor),Sax (Baritone)
Husk O'Hare   Director
Harry Reser   Banjo
Tommy Fellini   Banjo
Baby Dodds   Drums
Ed Smalle   Kazoo
Porter Grainger   Piano
Charlie Irvis   Trombone
Loring McMurray   Sax (Alto),Drums,Piano
Bobby Davis   Banjo,Drums,Piano,Clarinet,Brass Band,Sax (Alto),Sax (Tenor)
Morris Dixon   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor)
Maurice Mays   Banjo
Dewey Neal   Sax (Bass)
George Thomas   Guitar
Curtis Hitch   Piano,Director
Slick Helms   Piano
Bubber Whyte   Trumpet
Joe Smith   Cornet
Vance Patterson   Piano
George Temple   Trumpet
Ferman Tapp   Banjo
William L. Pearson   Piano
Charles Booker   Piano
Bill Moore Lucky Seven Band   Trumpet
Ivory Johnson   Drums,Brass Band
Carl Bunch   Banjo
Frank Bunch   Director
Floyd Brady   Trombone
Jack Roth   Drums
Harry Gluck   Trumpet
Jerry Bump   Trombone
Buddy Christian   Banjo
Bob Gillette   Banjo
Henry Moon   Guitar
Frank Snyder   Drums
Tommy Gott   Trumpet
Syd Valentine   Trumpet
Harry Perrella   Piano
Joe Britton   Clarinet,Trombone,Sax (Soprano)
Perry Smith   Vocals,Clarinet,Sax (Tenor),Sax (Soprano)
Frank Signorelli   Piano
Vic Moore   Drums
Dick Voynow   Piano,Director
Louis Armstrong   Cornet
Johnny Dodds   Clarinet
Lil Armstrong   Piano
Phil Napoleon   Trumpet,Trombone
Lil Hardin   Piano
Vernon Dalhart   Kazoo
Jimmy Blythe   Piano
Natty Dominique   Cornet,Sax (Alto)
Arnold Brillhardt   Clarinet,Sax (Alto)
Alberta Hunter   Vocals
George Brunies   Trombone
Tony Colucci   Banjo,Guitar
Cliff C. Jones   Drums
W.E. Burton   Kazoo,Vocals,Washboard
Mel Stitzel   Piano
Henry Duncan   Piano
Paul Anthony George   Banjo
Al Gande   Trombone
Charlie Gaines   Cornet
Jimmy Hartwell   Clarinet,Sax (Alto)
Ralph Bedell   Drums
Guy Carey   Trombone
Willie B. James   Guitar
Baldy McDonald   Clarinet

Technical Credits

Bill Johnson   Vocal Break
Elmer Schoebel   Arranger
Pat Harrison   Liner Notes