Tag: Leroy Harris

From the Record Shelves #240 – Close Fit Blues – In Clarence Williams rich output of records between 1927 and the Depression, there are two distinct kinds: the washboard bands and the ones with a tuba, and this LP has material from the latter category. The aim with which (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #12 – I’m Watching the Clock. It is volume three in a series and contain recordings that King Oliver’s orchestra did in New York. On the first side they are from 1928, then there is a gap until 1931 and by that time the band had lost their New Orleans connotations (…) read more and listenread more and listen