Tag: Darnell Howard

From the Record Shelves #264 – South Side Strut – A very good 1957 “Good Time Jazz” release is spinning. It always puts me in a good mood; it is so well recorded and well played, and even the sleeve is funny, with good information on the back. “Piano Professor” Don Ewell is (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #250 – Ory’s Creole Trombone – Kid Ory recorded his composition as early as 1922 in Los Angeles and again in Chicago in 1927 with an exuberant Louis Armstrong. But this version, again from the West Coast, recorded in Hollywood in 1945 (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #160 – Baby Won’t You Please Come Home – I think about one of my first records, a Christmas present. It was an EP, volume two in the Jazz Museum series on Coral, then released under Frank Teschmacher’s name, but the name of (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #89 – Brotherly Love. There are several good and interesting and for the most part obscure recordings on this LP. It’s difficult to make a choice of one.But here’s one from September 1926 that contains some seconds that constitutes the high point for me (…) read more and listenread more and listen

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