Month: September 2023

From the Record Shelves #3 – Anything. This mood piece is played by a group under Phil Napoleon’s formal leadership. Filippo Napoli as was his birth name had success with his group Original Memphis Five and recorded plenty of music with this and under their different pseudonyms (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #2 – Dyin’ with the Blues. Three players represents the hot trumpets recording in Chicago during the late 1920’s: Jabbo Smith, Punch Miller and the least well-known George Dixon who plays here (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #1 – Freshman’s Hop. Jack Pettis, what a band he had in the studio! He played alto and C-melody sax himself with a nice mellow sound and he was an important pioneer on the sax (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves. Now I’m going to play a record every day and present a tune with a short comment. Early jazz, blues, modern jazz, operatic arias maybe and some bygone popular artist’s recordings. (…) read moreread more