Year: 2023

From the Record Shelves #43 – South African Blues. Personality is the key word of the record. Roy Palmer sounds like nobody else on his trombone, yet the effective New Orleans style of playing is evident. (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #42 – Something About an Old Love. I was happy to find this record recently. It swings and Bunny Berigan’s trumpet playing is always a pleasure to listen to. But there is another special thing about this tune (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #41 – It’s a Lonesome Old Town. The double LP contains the last recordings of McKinney’s Cotton Pickers which are put together with sessions from 1939-40 by Don Redman’s Orchestra (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #40 – Blue Blood Blues. Volume 8 in a Jelly Roll Morton series contains what we could name “extra material” with several at the time unissued takes. One of them is this one recorded in 1930 (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #39 – Sensation. Fletcher Henderson had an incredible band in 1927. And it was used in the best possible manner. I can only think of Ellington that had an equally perfect balance between solos and arranged ensembles. In most numbers (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #38 – Many Happy Returns of the Day. The washboard not only became popular but also gave the name to groups in order to attract the record buyers during the depression in the beginning of the 30s. The instrument worked well (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #37 – Stick Out Your Can. If you want to start the day well and come into a good mood this could be the record to put on. Classic sessions with the New Orleans greats recorded in their own town or in San Francisco between 1945-55 (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #36 – China Boy. Frank Trumbauer undoubtedly did his best recordings in company with Bix Beiderbecke and any of his records post that period is bound to be a disappointment, but nothing prevents us (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #35 – Midnight Call Blues. Eddie Lang became one of the most lamented heroes in jazz history when he never woke up after a routine tonsillectomy in 1933. But before that he had made a great impact as a true pioneer of guitar playing which gave the instrument a new role (…) read more and listenread more and listen

Let the Good Times Roll #160 – Log Cabin Blues – Swedish French Connection. I hope that traditional jazz bands today and in the future continue to play the blues like we used to. Here is Log Cabin Blues with Original Jazz Makers from 1991. (…) titta på videontitta på videon

From the Record Shelves #34 – We Were the Best of Friends. The mysterious Blind Blake had a recording career with Paramount Records for six years between 1926 and 1932. “Mysterious” because nothing is known about the dates and places of his birth and death (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #33 – Blind Arthur’s Breakdown. The mysterious Blind Blake had a recording career with Paramount Records for six years between 1926 and 1932. “Mysterious” because nothing is known about the dates and places of his birth and death (…) read more and listenread more and listen