From the Record Shelves #267 - Savoy BluesFrom the Record Shelves #267 – Savoy Blues – Now I happen to stumble upon a Kid Ory’s Creole Jazz Band recording again. The LP presents interesting things meant to be “gap filling for collectors”.This one from AFRS Jubilee Broadcast and was recorded in Hollywood (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #250 - Ory’s Creole TromboneFrom 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 #233 - Careless LoveFrom the Record Shelves #233 – Careless Love – In the 1970s when cassette radios came about, I sometimes recorded our gigs. One of the guys I played with got extremely nervous, so I had to hide the machine in a bag and put it near the loudspeakers. This live recording (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #76 - High SocietyFrom the Record Shelves #76 – High Society. The sessions on this LP belong to the classical ones and have been released many times on different media and labels. They are transcriptions from radio programs in 1944, and I have chosen the first (…) read more and listenread more and listen

Mutt Carey nekrologEn artikel av Olle Helander i Orkester Journalen, oktober 1948. En jazzens trotjänare fick lämna scenen vilket beklagas av Olle Helander som också tycker att erkännandet av de gamla New Orleansmusikerna (…) läs artikelnMutt Carey nekrolog