Tag: Brunswick

From the Record Shelves #179 – Boneyard Shuffle – I look at the cover and see a young Red Nichols in a reflective mood, looking at his mouthpiece with his most precious belonging, the trumpet in the lap. He’s well-dressed, and everything in the music is also (…) 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

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