Hot jazz from Wild Bill
For anyone who missed Saturday’s Jazz Record Requests, here’s an example of jazz at its hottest, as requested by a discerning listener:
‘That’s A Plenty’ by Wild Bill Davison And His Commodores, NYC, Nov 27 1943. Wild Bill (cornet), Georg Brunis (trombone), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), Gene Schroeder (piano), Eddie Condon (guitar), Bob Casey (bass), George Wettling (drums).
This is one of the couple of dozen sides recorded by Davison and/or Brunis between 1943 and ’46 on the Commodore label, described as “like a naked electric light bulb” by Philip Larkin in All What Jazz.
Below: Pee Wee (left), Wild Bill (centre) and Brunis (on our right of Bill) at Condon’s c. 1949 or ’50, with Max Kaminsky, Bud Freeman and Fred Ohms
Matt said,
July 17, 2012 at 8:27 pm
I heard your request Jim. This week’s meeting of Manchester Jazz Society is a critical appraisal of the clarinettist on the track, Pee Wee Russell,
Jim Denham said,
July 17, 2012 at 11:05 pm
Ah, Pee Wee: “even his feet look sad”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAGkN34xn9c
Last Friday mixtape for a few weeks « Bob's Beats said,
July 20, 2012 at 8:29 pm
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