Year: 2023

From the Record Shelves #67 – Too Bad. Here we have 18 numbers with George Olsen and his Music from the period of transition from acoustic to electrical recordings. Most of them are made prior to the orchestras big commercial hit “Who” (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #66 – Close Shave. Already as a tuba player with Fletcher Henderson at the end of the 1920s, John Kirby was impressive. After changing to double bass his work became an important link to more modern bass line playing (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #65 – Chicago Mess Around. When Paramount made recordings in Chicago in the 20s the musical direction was given among others to Lovie Austin. She had a solid musical education and was at the time working at the Monogram Theater in the city (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #64 – Crazy Rhythm. It’s a good example of how jazz music travels and inspires. After the visit of Django Reinhardt and his “Quintette du Hot Club de France” in Stockholm in 1939 some Swedish musicians decided to form a Swedish version (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #63 – Manhattan. I have always aimed at the strategy of turning defeat into victory. For example already as a teenager in school I had the following method. When I was feeling sick and felt that the flu was coming (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #62 – Always in All Ways. There is a lot to choose from on today’s record, mostly small groups with unusual combinations of instruments and with organ, bassoon, harp and washboard among them. And the LP has as much as 10 tunes on each side (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #61 – Stomp Off, Let’s Go. When we started a new band playing jazz and hot dance music in the beginning of the 1980s I wanted to keep it small in order to get reasonably paid gigs. And the first recordings of The New Orleans Owls are a good model of what you can achieve with (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #60 – Corky Stomp. Today it’s more Kansas City jazz on a nice Ace of Hearts Lp that I bought in 1966. The record company Brunswick sent out two men in 1929 to look for talent in the city. The two were (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #59 – Kansas City Breakdown. The title tells us where they came from. Bennie Moten’s Orchestra was the most popular orchestra during the 1920s in Kansas City and the territory around. Later in the 30s after Moten’s sudden death its leadership was taken over by (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #58 – I’ve Lost My Heart in Dixieland. A group of musicians from New Orleans were destined to have their names written into the history of jazz. First they assembled in Chicago, conquered New York next and after making records went overseas to London (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #57 – Baltimore. The title of this LP means that the popular, tin pan alley sort of tunes is absent. Otherwise, it’s quite natural and what you expect from a New Orleans Band that they play spirituals and blues (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #56 – Take My Hand, Precious Lord. The title of this LP means that the popular, tin pan alley sort of tunes is absent. Otherwise, it’s quite natural and what you expect from a New Orleans Band that they play spirituals and blues (…) read more and listenread more and listen