November 2023 - Page 2 of 3 - Paul – and some of that Jazz

From the Record Shelves #80 – Tessie! Stop Teasing Me. Today I listen to a very good CD, thanks to the producers at FROG records and to John R. T. Davies whose restoration and transfers of the originals from 1924 make them sound like new (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #79 – Somebody Stole My Gal. The Spanish-American pianist Fred Elizalde played an important part as a jazz pioneer in England in the 1920s. As a student at Cambridge he organized a band and after having a certain success with this he (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #78 – Honolulu Blues. This performance is a bit crazy or maybe one should say experimental. Red Nichols and his Five Pennies keeps it down to six musicians on this date in September 1931. Vic Berton’s use of his timpani is (…) read more and listenread more and listen

Musikunderhållning med Kiki & Paul den 20 november 2023 kl. 14:45, på Bunkeflo Strandkyrka, Klagshamnsvägen 44, 230 44 Bunkeflostrand. (…) view eventKonsert Kiki och Paul, 20 november 2023 på Bunkeflo Strandkyrka

From the Record Shelves #77 – Through Train Blues. Tampa Red had a sound, one of the best within the early jazz and blues idiom. It was based on his National guitar, on his open “E” (Vestapol) tuning and his glass bottle slide. But the control over these elements and (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #76 – High Society. The sessions on this LP belong to the classical ones and have been released many times on different media and labels. They are transcriptions from radio programs in 1944, and I have chosen the first (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #75 – Take It from Me. This must be one of the records that I found when I was on tour in England in the beginning of the 80s. I brought back a big pile even if I already was loaded with a lot of things. As I remember it I started out early in Birmingham (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #74 – Somebody’s Been Lovin’ My Baby. This is a good record with a compilation of some of the best female blues singers of the 1920s and with good sound. Most of the singers express anger, desperation and such but (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #73 – Just Pretending. From 1925 when an electric system had just been taken in use the record companies could make tours in the south and find suitable subjects for recording. On several of these tours they came to New Orleans (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #72 – Nobody’s Sweetheart. This is a lively record! A good hot band with eager soloists playing some well known tunes, some of them in breakneck tempo, and some specialties. And in front the strong personality of the singer (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #71 – Tiger Rag. I used to think that Sylvester Ahola played trumpet on a record by Frankie Trumbauer called Just an Hour of Love with You, but later I learned that he wasn’t there and never did record with Bixl (…) read more and listenread more and listen

Musikunderhållning med Kiki & Paul, torsdag 23 november 2023 kl. 14:00, i S:t Andreas kyrka, Fridhemstorget, Malmö, (…) view eventKonsert Kiki och Paul torsdag 23 november 2023 på S:t Andreas kyrka