Tag: Johnny Wells

From the Record Shelves #374 – Satisfied – This is Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra. According to the personnel on the record, we hear, besides Noone on clarinet, Doc Poston on alto sax, Zinky Cohn on piano, and Junie Cobb on banjo or guitar. The tuba player is Bill Newton, and (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #337 – A Monday Date – Earl Hines wrote the tune and recorded it the same year, 1928, with Louis Armstrong, and that’s an unbeatable version. But this is not bad either; there is a lot to enjoy: Earl’s own piano solo, the demonstration of impeccable clarinet technique by (…) read more and listenread more and listen