Sharkey and His Kings of Dixieland [GHB]

Sharkey and His Kings of Dixieland [GHB]

Sharkey and His Kings of Dixieland [GHB]

Sharkey and His Kings of Dixieland [GHB]

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Overview

In 2008, Jasmine released the largest compilation ever devoted to the music of trumpeter and vocalist Sharkey Bonano. Its 58 tracks represent his complete Kappa and Capitol recordings, which were made in New Orleans between June 8, 1949 and November 2, 1953. With the exception of a few Storyville, Circle, and Riverside albums, these are most of Bonano's recordings from this period. They were preceded only by about a dozen titles dating from 1936. Bonano, whose approach to jazz could be compared with that of Wingy Manone or young Louis Prima, was a boisterous and sometimes bawdy singer. It is Bonano who grabs the microphone and cuts loose during the "Famous Door Boogie." His fellow musicians on the 1949 sessions include trombonist Santo Pecora of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and clarinetist Larry Shields, a cardinal member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. This calls up parallels with recordings made during the '50s by trumpeter Pee Wee Erwin and a band driven by drummer Tony Spargo, also of the ODJB. The collective personnel on this mammoth stash of Truman-era Dixieland also includes trombonists Charles Miller, Julian Laine, Jack Delaney, and Jimmy Blount; bassist and tuba man Chink Martin; clarinetists Lester Bouchon and Leonard Bujie Centobie (who recorded with Art Hodes for Blue Note); pianist Armand Hug, and drummer Monk Hazel who sometimes doubles on mellophone. The vocalist on "Bill Bailey," "Salty Dog," "Darktown Strutters' Ball," and "Lizzie's Blues" is none other than the great Lizzie Miles, who made her first recordings in 1922 and was in the midst of a second comeback when she teamed up with Bonano's band. The guy heard airing his tonsils on "Dinah" and "How'm I Doin'" has been identified as Sam De Kemel, a mysterious character who also blows into a bugle. ~ arwulf arwulf

Product Details

Release Date: 05/18/2010
Label: Ghb Records
UPC: 0762247511625
Rank: 133052

Tracks

  1. Somebody Else is Taking My Place
  2. Jealous Blues
  3. Corrine Corrina
  4. After the Ball is Over
  5. My Monday Date
  6. Chimes Blues
  7. Somebody Else is Taking My Place
  8. To Be Remembered
  9. Ole Fashin' Lovin'
  10. Saints Go Marchin' In
  11. Gone
  12. I'm Heading Down South
  13. How Come You Do Me?
  14. Angry

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sharkey Bonano & His Kings of Dixieland   Primary Artist
Sharkey Bonano   Primary Artist,Trumpet
Don Souchon and His Milneberg Boys   Primary Artist
Sherwood Mangiapanne   String Bass
Paul Barbarin   Drums
Jack Delaney   Trombone
Monk Hazel   Drums
Armand Hug   Piano
Raymond Burke   Clarinet
Waldren 'Frog' Joseph   Trombone
Abbie Brunies   Drums
Stanley Mendelson   Piano
Pinky Vidacovich   Clarinet
Edmond Souchon   Guitar
Louis Cottrell, Sr.   Clarinet,Horn (Tenor)
Chink Martin   Bowed Bass,String Bass
Bill Crais   Trombone
Chink Martin Jr.   String Bass
Harry Shields   Clarinet

Technical Credits

Barry Martyn   Producer
Richard Bird   Mastering
George H. Buck, Jr.   Liner Notes
Art Anderson   Liner Notes
Myra Menville   Liner Notes
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