Jimmie Noone’s Quartet and Richard M. Jones Jazzmen – Chicago Dixieland in the Forties

Description

Release date:  2012

Label:  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Track List

Jimmie Noone’s Quartet

1. A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid
2. Goodbye, Don’t Cry
3. Blues for Roy
4. Lady, Be Good
5. Memories of You
6. Honeysuckle Rose

Richard M. Jones Jazzmen

1. 29th and Dearborn
2. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
3. Jazzin’ Babies Blues
4. Canal Street Blues

Personnel

Jimmie Noone’s Quartet

• Jimmie Noone – clarinet
• John Frazier – string bass
• Wallace Bishop – drums
• Frank Smith – piano

Richard M. Jones Jazzmen

• Richard M. Jones – piano
• John Lindsay – bass
• Darnell Howard – clarinet
• Baby Dodds – drums
• Preston Jackson – trombone
• Bob Shoffner – trumpet

Notes

Both natives of New Orleans and prolific members of Chicago’s jazz scene in the 1920s, clarinetist Jimmie Noone and multi-instrumentalist Richard M. Jones were among the first musicians to leave the Big Easy for the Windy City. Although they occasionally played together, this album presents separate performances, including Jones’ last recording session in 1944.