[78-L] British Jazz Albums of 1936

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Geoffrey Wheeler" <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> In answer to Mike Biel’s request for information on the recordings in
> the British jazz albums, here are the discs in the Classic Jazz and 21
> Years... If the listings get bolloxed up, it is a result of the
> e-mailing. Contents of Elizalde album to follow.
>
> English Brunswick ‘Classic Swing’ Albums
> Brunswick ‘Classic’ Swing Vol. I:
> 02200-A: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Dipper Mouth Blues (mx. 90476A)
> 02200-B: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Canal Street Blues (mx.
> 90485A) (label says 90483)
>
> 02201-A King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Mandy Lee Blues (mx. 90484A)
> 02201-B King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: I’m Going Away to Wear You Off
> My Mind (mx. 90485A) (label also reads 90485)
>
> 02202-A King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Weather Bird Rag (mx. 90481A)
> 02202-B King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band: Just Gone (mx. 90482A)
>
> 02203-A Wolverine Orchestra: The Jazz Me Blues (mx. 90361A)
> 02203 B Wolverine Orchestra: Big Boy (mx. 90426A)
>
> 02204-A Wolverine Orchestra: Fidgety Feet (mx. 90362A)
> 02204-B Wolverine Orchestra: Royal Garden Blues (mx. 90428A)
>
> 02205-A Wolverine Orchestra: Copenhagen (mx. 90360A)
> 02205-B Wolverine Orchestra: Tiger Rag (mx. 90468A)
>
> 02206 A Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers: Davenport Blues (mx. 90430A)
> 02206 B Hitch’s Happy Harmonists: Washboard Blues (mx. 90472A)
>
> Brunswick ‘Classic’ Swing Vol. II
> 02207 A Sioux City Six, featuring Miff Mole: Flock O’ Blues (mx. 90432A)
> 02007 B Sioux City Six, featuring Bix Beiderbecke: I’m Glad (mx. 90433A)
>
> 02208-A New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Tin Roof Blues (mx. 90378A)
> 02208-B New Orleans Rhythm Kings: That’s A Plenty (mx. 90381A)
>
> 02209 A New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Maple Leaf Rag (mx. 90375A)
> 02209-B New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Clarinet Marmalade (mx. 90385A)
>
> 02210-A New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Sweet Lovin’ Man (mx. 90372A)
> 02210 B New Orleans Rhythm Kings: London Blues (mx. 90376A)
>
> 02211 A Friar’s Society Orchestra: Eccentric (mx. 90395A) (label reads
> 90393)
> 02211 B Friar’s Society Orchestra: Farewell Blues (mx. 90395A) (label
> also reads 90395)
>
> 02212-A Friar’s Society Orchestra: Panama (mx. 90388A)
> 02212-B Friar's Society Orchestra: Tiger Rag (mx. 90389A)
>
> 02213 A Friar’s Society Orchestra: Bugle Call Rag (mx. 90391A)
> 02213-B Husk O’Hara’s Super Orchestra of Chicago: San (mx. 90392A)
>
> 21 Years of Swing Music
> Album One consists of Brunswick catalog numbers 2500 to 2507; Album Two
> consists of numbers 2508 to 2515. The selections come from the American
> labels Aeolian-Vocalion, Brunswick, Champion, Decca, Gennett,
> Paramount, and Vocalion.
>
> Label description. Labels on pre-War issues are the standard 3-inch
> Brunswick “shield” design with glossy black field and gold type. The
> 3-inch Post-War issue labels are matte-printed with black fields and
> dull antique silver type that is less easy to read than the
> gold-on-black of the pre-War labels. Label information includes: Album
> title, number, and side number (“21 Years of Swing Music—Album One, No.
> 11”); music publisher (“L. Wright Music”) or the statement “Copyright
> Control,” Brunswick catalog number and matrix number (“02505-A,
> 4525/81004A”), tune title, composer credit in parentheses, group name,
> original-issue year in parentheses “(1933),”and personnel and
> instrumentation.  More often than not, the first name of an individual
> player is shown as an initial, rather than the first name spelled out
> in full. The post-War labels have a letter “B” in gothic type centered
> in a shield like a family crest above the Brunswick script logo.
> Beneath the logo in parentheses is (REGD.). On one example in the
> author’s collection, the matrix number is printed upside down
> immediately above the catalog number. The issue in question is (E)
> Brunswick 02506 by The Louisiana Rhythm Kings: “Basin Street Blues/Last
> Cent.”
>
> Album One
> 02500  (No. 1) Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Reisenweber Rag (no
> composer credit)
> (original issue: Aeolian-Vocalion 1242; dub mx. TNY 548 A) recorded
> August 17,
> 1917 02500 (No. 2) Original Dixieland Jazz Band: Tiger Rag (LaRocca)
> (original
> issue: Aeolian-Vocalion 1206; dub mx. TNY 547 A) recorded November
> 24, 1917
>
> 02501-A (No. 3) Wolverine Orchestra: Oh! Baby (DeSylva-Donaldson)
> (original issue: Gennett 5453; dub mx. C90427A) recorded May 1924
> 02501-B (No. 4) Bix and His Rhythm Jugglers: Toddlin’ Blues
> (LaRocca-Edwards)
> (original issue: Gennett 5654; dub mx. C90431A) recorded January 1925
>
> 02502-A (No. 5) Charles Pierce and His Orch.: Jazz Me Blues  (Delaney)
> (original issue: Paramount 12640; dub mx. TNY543A) recorded March 1928
> 02502-B (No. 6) Louis Armstrong and His Orch [Lill’s Hot Shots]: Drop
> That Sack
> (Armstrong) (original issue: Vocalian 1037B; dub mx 1037B) recorded
> May 28, 1926
>
> 02503-A (No. 7) Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra: Sensation
> (Edwards)
> (original issue: Vocalion 1092; original master E22029) recorded
> March 19, 1927
> 02503-B (No. 8) Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Tishomingo Blues
> (Williams)
> (original issue: Brunswick 3987; dub mx. 3987) recorded June 5, 1928
>
> 02504-A (No. 9) Hoagy Carmichael and His Collegians: Walking the Dog
> (Brooks)
> (1928 per catalog; 1927-S per label; GE-13724 B per impression in wax
> under label)
> (original issue: Gennett 6474; original master 13724B) recorded May
> 5, 1928
> 02504-B (No. 10) Barbecue Joe and His Hot Dogs [Wingy Mannone]: Shake
> That Thing
> (Jackson)
> (original issue: Champion 16192; dub mx. 16950-C) recorded August 28,
> 1930
> 02505-A (No. 11) The Cotton Pickers: Rampart Street Blues (Robinson)
> (original issue: Brunswick 4325; dub mx. 4325) recorded March 27, 1929
> 02505-B (No. 12) Red Nichols: Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems to Care)
> (Berlin)
> (original issue: Brunswick 4790; original master E30538-A) recorded
> September 9, 1929
>
> 02506-A (No. 13) The Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Basin Street Blues
> (Spencer Williams)
> (original issue: Vocalion 15815; dub mx. 15815A-1) recorded June 11,
> 1929
> 02506-B (No. 14) The Louisiana Rhythm Kings: Last Cent (Austin, Prince)
> (original issue: Vocalion 15815; dub mx. TR 15815B-1) recorded June
> 11, 1929
>
> 02507-A (No. 15) Mound City Blues Blowers: What Do I Care What Somebody
> Said
> (Woods-Clare)
> (original issue: Brunswick 3484; dub mx. 3484) recorded March 1927
> 02507-B (No. 16) Mary Lou Williams: Drag ’Em (Williams)
> (original issue: Brunswick 7178; dub mx. TR7178) recorded circa April
> 24, 1930
>
> Album Two
> Note: With the exception of 02508-A, all sides in this album are master
> pressings.
>
> 02508-A (No. 1) Luis Russell & His Orch.: Saratoga Drag (Russell,
> Walton)
> (original issue: Vocalion 1579; dub mx. B1579 A) recorded December
> 13, 1930
> 02508-B (No. 2) The Rhythmakers: I Would Do Anything For You (Hill,
> Williams, Hopkins)
> (original issue: Banner 32530; original master 12119 -2) recorded
> July 26, 1932
>
> 02509-A (No. 3) Don Redman and His Orchestra: It’s A Great World After
> All (Johnson-
> Redman) (original issue: Brunswick 6344; original master B11995 A)
> recorded June
> 28, 1932
> 02509-B (No. 4) Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra: Dissonance (Mezzrow)
> (original issue: Brunswick 7551; original master B14273 A) recorded
> November 6,
> 1933
>
> 02510-A (No. 5) New Orleans Rhythm Kings: No Lovers Allowed
> (Shand-DeLange-Jones)
> (original issue: Decca 401; original master 39379A) recorded February
> 20, 1935
> 02510-B (No. 6) Adrian Rollini and His Orchestra: Riverboat Shuffle
> (Voynow-Carmichael-
> Mills) (original issue: Decca 265; original master 38878A) recorded
> October 23,
> 1934
>
> 02511-A (No. 7) Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra: Wild Party
> (Hudson)
> (original issue: Decca 342; original master 38723A) recorded
> September 25, 1934
> 02511-B (No. 8) Noble Sissle and His International Orchestra: Polka Dot
> Rag (Bechet-Sissle)
> (original issue: Decca 153; original master 9298) recorded August 15,
> 1934
>
> 02512-A (No. 9) Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra: Stomp It Off (Sy
> Oliver-Jimmie
> Lunceford) (original issue: Decca 712; original master 38917A)
> recorded
> October 29, 1934
> 02512-B (No. 10) Casa Loma Orchestra: Royal Garden Blues (Clarence
> Williams-Spencer
> Williams) (original issue: Decca 986; original master 61154A) recorded
> June 10, 1936
>
> 02513-A (No. 11) Willie “The Lion” Smith and His Cubs: Harlem Joys
> (Smith-Bishop)
> (original issue: Decca 7074; original master 39492A) recorded April
> 2/3, 1935
> 02513-B (No. 12) Sharkey’s New Orleans Boys: Everybody Loves My Baby
> (Jack Palmer-
> Spencer Williams) (original issue: Decca 1014; original master
> NO-60842 A)
> recorded March 21, 1936.
> Note: The flip side of the original Decca issue is “I’m Satisfied with
> My Gal,” which Sharkey wrote and sings. Sharkey also recorded the same
> tune for ARC on October 7, 1936 (Vo 3380) as Sharkey Bonano and His
> Sharks of Rhythm. Later reissued as “A Hot Jazz Classic” on Columbia
> 35678, the ARC version is a real stomper and features excellent
> drumming from Ben Pollack, who rides the rhythm with his stick work on
> a Chinese cymbal. It has been claimed that Jo Jones originated the use
> of the ride cymbal for carrying a steady beat, but Dave Tough and Ben
> Pollack were already doing this in 1936.
>
> 02514-A (No. 13) Chick Webb and His Orchestra: Go Harlem (Andy
> Razaf-Jimmy Johnson)
> (original issue: Decca 995; original master 61123) recorded June 2,
> 1936
> 02514-B (No. 14) Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra: Red Nose (Marion
> Lake-Bonnie
> Lake) (original issue: Decca 1049; original master 61110A) recorded
> May 18, 1936
>
> 02515-A (No. 15) Bob Crosby and His Orchestra: Gin Mill Blues (Joe
> Sullivan)
> (original issue: Decca 1170; original master 61590A) recorded
> February 8, 1937
> 02515-B (No. 16) Count Basie and His Orchestra: Roseland Shuffle (Count
> Basie)
> (original issue: Decca 1141; original master 61545A) recorded January
> 21, 1937
>
Interesting! The 90xxx m#'s are Decca numbers, from their Chicago
series, from mid-1936 per my DG...!

Steven C. Barr