Description
Release Date: 2009
Label: JSP Records
Track List
Disc: 1
1. Eccentric – Friars Society Orchestra
2. Farewell Blues
3. Discontented Blues
4. Bugle Call Blues
5. Panama
6. Tiger Rag
7. Boo Hoo Hoo – Husk O’Hare’s Super Orchestra Of Chicago
8. Tiger Rag
9. Stop Your Kidding – Ladd’s Black Aces
10. You’ve Got to See Your Mama Every Night
11. Runnin’ Wild
12. Nobody’s Sweetheart
13. Unfortunate Blues
14. Jazz Me Blues – Wolverine Orchestra
15. Oh Baby
16. Copenhagen
17. Riverboat Shuffle
18. Susie
19. Sensation
20. Lazy Daddy
21. Big Boy
22. Swingin’ Down the Lane – Lanin’s Famous Players
23. Slue Foot – California Vagabonds
24. Bringing Home the Bacon – Windy City Jazzers
25. Hot Mittens – Bucktown Five
26. Charley My Boy – Kentucky Blowers
27. Steady Steppin’ Papa – The Happy Harmonists
Disc: 2
1. Just Gone – King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
2. Canal Street Blues
3. Mandy Lee Blues
4. I’m Going Away to Wear You off My Mind
5. Chimes Blues
6. Weather Bird Rag
7. Dipper Mouth Blues (Sugar Foot Stomp)
8. Froggie Moore
9. Snake Rag
10. King Porter (A Stomp) – Jelly Roll Morton
11. New Orleans (Blues) Joys
12. Grandpa’s Spells (A Stomp)
13. Kansas City Stomp
14. Wolverine Blues (Joys)
15. The Pearls (A Stomp)
16. Terrible Blues – Red Onion Jazz Babies
17. Santa Claus Blues
18. It’s Breaking My Heart to Keep Away from You – Fess Williams And His Royal Flush Orchestra
19. Ya Gotta Know How to Love
20. Fourth Avenue Stomp – Frank Bunch & His Fuzzy Wuzzies
21. Barbecue Blues (F Sharp Blues) – Watson’s Pullman Porters
22. Monte Carlo Joys – Vicksburg Blowers
23. Twin Blues
24. Brown Jug Blues – Ezra Buzzington’s Rustic Revellers
25. Bass Blues
Disc: 3
1. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel ‘Dis Mornin’ – Josephine Beatty
2. Early Every Morn
3. Make That Gravel Fly – Hattie Snow
4. Daddy What You Going to Do
5. War Horse Mama – Josie Miles
6. You Don’t Know My Mind Blues
7. 31st Street Blues
8. Pipe Dream Blues
9. I’m Drifting from You Blues – Edna Johnson
10. A Woman Gets Tired of One Man All the Time
11. How Could I Be Blue? – Elvira Johnson
12. Numbers on the Brain
13. Blues Rode Me All Night Long – Bertha Ross
14. Lost Man Blues
15. You Used to Be Sugar Blues – Hattie Garland
16. Strange Woman’s Dream
17. Wild Geese Blues – Alberta Jones
18. Red Beans and Rice
19. East Coast Blues – Lizzie Washington
20. Working Man Blues
21. Fall or Summer Blues
22. Sport Model Mamma Blues
23. If You Want to Keep Your Daddy Home – Viola McCoy
24. Laughin’ Cryin’ Blues
25. Midnight Blues (A Wee Hour Chant)
26. Triflin’ Blues (Daddy Don’t You Trifle on Me)
Disc: 4
1. My Baby – State Street Ramblers
2. Pleasure Mad
3. Oriental Man
4. Some Do and Some Don’t
5. Tack It Down
6. Endurance Stomp
7. Yearning and Blue
8. Someday You’ll Know
9. Pass the Jug – Frank Melrose
10. Jelly Roll Stomp
11. You’ve Got What I Want – Irene Scruggs
12. My Back to the Wall
13. Make Me Know It – Jelly James & His Fewsicians
14. Mandy – Zach White’s Chocolate Beau Brummels
15. Hum All Your Troubles Away
16. It’s Tight Like That
17. Some of These Days – George H. Tremer
18. Spirit of ’49 Rag
19. Chicken Supper Strut – Triangle Harmony Boys
20. Mississippi Shivers – Sidney Williams
21. I Wonder Blues (I’ve Got the Wonder Blues) – Bailey’s Lucky Seven
22. Pick Me Up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland
23. Who Loved You Best
24. “E Flat” Blues (Sic) – Porter’s Blue Devils
25. Original Charleston Strut
26. Jazzin’ Babies Blues – Richard M. Jones
27. Twelfth Street Rag
Notes
The Gennett record label lacked the commercial clout of, say, Victor or Columbia. However it became an important player in the early recording of jazz. Gennett was a division of the Starr Piano Company, situated in Richmond, Indiana. The manufacture of phonographs, then records to play on them, was seen as a lucrative sideline As with other record labels of the time, Gennett started with popular and classical recordings. By the early 1920s it was obvious that the upstart jazz would have to be added to the catalogue, and it then became a matter of finding talent. It seems that Fred Wiggins, manager of the Starr Piano showroom alerted Gennett to the potential of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, then Chicago residents. Their debut (as the Friars Society Orchestra) in the Gennett studios at Richmond was 29th August 1922 when they cut four sides, all of which appear here. Sales success was immediate. The N.O.R.K. were back in Richmond the following March and July. The July session included pianist Jelly Roll Morton on five tracks and may represent one of the earliest integrated jazz sessions. Having found the new music to sell even better than they expected, the Gennett management cast their net wider. As a result, their catalogue reads like a Who’s Who’ of early Jazzmen. Names like King Oliver, Miff Mole, Bix Beiderbecke, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong are a tribute to the relatively small label’s good taste and opportunism. Remastering adds to a true feast of early Jazz
