[78-L] Sidney & the Lion play calypso

[yves francois]

  Han, you are right - there are 13 titles total (Media 7 has 13 titles as well on Vol 5 and 6). My only regret is that Bechet seems content to play "under wraps" for some odd reason on this session. I like the concept very much, but some hot solos on this would have been stunning (I know you know such clarinets like Robert Mavounzy*, Eugene Delouche or even Filiberto Rico who could do this sort of thing very well - Bechet was more reserved on these recordings (he did better with this sort of thing on the Circle session with the Duke of Iron or a couple of songs he recorded in Paris in the early 50's)
   One note to everyone who is listening to these records, they are NOT jazz records, but ethnic music - so I listen to them with my "world music" ears .... just don't expect any great solos by Bechet, Smith or Roane.   
Yves François

* BTW Mavounzy did an incredible LP in the 60's with a rhythm trio of biguines, he is a stellar musician, and could bridge the gap between jazz and biguine very well (as did Al Lirvat and Abel Beauregard)   

--- On Tue, 6/8/10, Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl> wrote:

> From: Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> Subject: [78-L]  Sidney & the Lion play calypso
> To: "78-L" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:40 AM
> The session is in Rust under HAITIAN
> ORCHESTRA (12 titles),
> to be found by looking at recordings made by Kenneth
> Roane.
> 
> The Daems (EPs)/Belfort (10 track LP) issues are retitled,
> and not different recordings.
> Bruyninckx lists the 4 sides of Orig. Haitian Music 1-4
> also under their alternative titles
> as Pique/Chatte/Germaine/Dansez (from an early Bechet dg by
> Mauerer).
> 
> Why the session is listed as HAITIAN ORCHESTRA is not
> clear.
> Possibly this is the credit on Baldwin (I have never seen
> these Baldwins) ?
> The credit on Varsity is:
> WILLIE (THE LION) SMITH-SIDNEY BECHET ORCHESTRA
> (Leo Warney at the Drums).
> 
> 12 titles were on Swingtime 1014 (LP).
> Long ago I tried to decifer this session and assumed there
> were 13 titles,
> mxs 570-582, incl. 580? Colonel Bogey.
> 13 titles are on the complete Bechet CD issue on Classics,
> and I assume
> the Media7 CD has the same number.
> 
> Han Enderman
> ===
> >>> 
> This was discussed briefly [in] John Chilton's "Sidney
> Bechet The Wizard of Jazz" on the first page of Chapter 13 -
> a book I happen to be reading right now.
> As Yves pointed out it was Leo Warney on drums, according
> to Chilton.  There were a total of 14 titles recorded.
> Glenn
> -----
> Cary, data from BRUYNINCKX discography:
> 
> HAITIAN ORCHESTRA 
> Kenneth Roane (tp) Sidney Bechet (cl,as) Willie "The Lion"
> Smith (p) Olin Aderhold (b) Leo Warney (d) 
> New York, November 22, 1939 
> 570-1 Magic island (A) Var 8399, Daems 25420 
> 571-1 Mayotte (1) (A,B) - 
> 572-1 Rose rhumba (A) 8405, 25419 
> 573-1 Sous les palmiers (A,B) - , 25421, Harlequin 
> (E)HQ2018 
> 574 Original Haitian music pt 1 (A,B) Var 8363 
> 575 Original Haitian music pt 2 (A,B) - 
> 576-1 Diane (Tropical moon/Dance ensemble*)(A,B) Var 8360,
> Daems 25419, 25408* 
> 577-1 Nana (Baba) (A,B) - , - , 25408* 
> 578 Original Haitian music pt 3 (A,B) 8364 
> 579 Original Haitian music pt 4 (A,B) - 
> 581 Ti Ralph (A,B) Baldwin 1012, Daems 25408 
> 582 Merengue d'amour (A) Baldwin 1012, Daems 25421 
> La belle Germaine (*) Daems 25421 
> Danse de chez nous (*) - 
> Merengue des centraliers (*) 25420 
> Ca pique à Haiti (*) - 
> Ti croco - 
> Colonel Bogey (A,B) 25408 
> Original Haitian music pt 6 Belfort 40840 
> Titte chatte Daems 25408 
> Ce nous même (*) 
> 
> hope this helps, all reissued both on Classics and Media 7
> Masters of Jazz cd's (I also have the 12" LP of the Bechet
> Haitian orchestra record, got as a teenager - impressed me
> very much), it's not Zutty on drums, believe me (though he
> could, listen to the Decca 78 of Runerae Papa from 1936,
> superb biguine)
> all the best
> Yves François
>