Description
Release Date: 2021
Label: Secret Six Jazz Band
Track List
1. My Life Will Be Sweeter Someday (G. Presley) *Bunk Johnson 1944
2. Potato Head Blues (Armstrong) *L. Armstrong’s Hot 7, 1927
3. Looking The World Over (L. Douglas) *Memphis Minnie 1933
4. Ham And Eggs (Barker) *Danny Barker 1960
5. Burgundy Street Blues (Lewis) *George Lewis 1944
6. I Can’t Escape From You (R.Whiting) *Bunk Johnson 1946
7. Climax Rag (J. Scott) *George Lewis 1945
8. When I Get Low I Get High (M. Sunshine) *Ella Fitzgerald 1937
9. Canal Street Blues (Oliver) *J.Oliver, L.Armstrong 1923
10. Bye Bye Blues (F. Hamm) 1925
11. Beale Street Blues (W.C. Handy) *Kid Ory 1945
12. My Daddy Rocks Me (B. Barbour) *Trixie Smith 1922
Personnel
Reid Poole – trumpet, vocal on track 11
John Joyce – upright bass, vocal on track 6
James Evans – clarinet or saxophone on all tracks, trombone track 4
Hunter Burgamy – banjo, vocal on track 4
Mike Voelker – drums, washboard
Jory Woodis – clarinet on tracks 4, 7, 9, 10, 11
Russell Ramirez – trombone, vocal on track 10
Meschiya Lake – vocal on tracks 1, 3, 8, 12
Notes
The Secret Six are a New Orleans traditional jazz band evoking the rich style of collective improvisation and ensemble playing. Specializing in stomps, blueses, rags and no frills hot jazz.
Played with respect and admiration for the artists who wrote, performed and lived these songs.
