Tag: New Orleans

From the Record Shelves #102 – Have Your Chill, I’ll Be Here When Your Fever Rises. I think that this was the first record with Louis Armstrong that I bought. Meanwhile, you could turn on the radio and hear his hit Hello Dolly. But it was this early version (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #95 – Don’t Give Me Sympathy. According to Edmond Hall himself, this nice little song was one that they often sang and played at home when he was small, and it stems from the 1890s. Home was in Reserve, Louisiana but Edmond (…) 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 #74 – Somebody’s Been Lovin’ My Baby. This is a good record with a compilation of some of the best female blues singers of the 1920s and with good sound. Most of the singers express anger, desperation and such but (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #73 – Just Pretending. From 1925 when an electric system had just been taken in use the record companies could make tours in the south and find suitable subjects for recording. On several of these tours they came to New Orleans (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #70 – Try and Treat Her Right. Louisville, Kentucky had two band leaders in the twenties who were fighting to get the recording contracts. Still they depended on each other and played with each other’s groups. Clifford Hayes who played (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #69 – Ash Tray Blues. Papa Charlie Jackson (November 10, 1887 – May 7, 1938) has always been a favorite of mine. His strong voice, his swing, his control over his instrument the six-string banjo, his wit, the intelligent lyrics and (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #65 – Chicago Mess Around. When Paramount made recordings in Chicago in the 20s the musical direction was given among others to Lovie Austin. She had a solid musical education and was at the time working at the Monogram Theater in the city (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #58 – I’ve Lost My Heart in Dixieland. A group of musicians from New Orleans were destined to have their names written into the history of jazz. First they assembled in Chicago, conquered New York next and after making records went overseas to London (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #49 – Careless Love. This record is an invitation to join an alternative musical universe, populated by so called “moldy figs” the enthusiasts of the revival movement. I have for many years myself been a member of the Swedish Bunk Johnson Society (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #40 – Blue Blood Blues. Volume 8 in a Jelly Roll Morton series contains what we could name “extra material” with several at the time unissued takes. One of them is this one recorded in 1930 (…) read more and listenread more and listen

Här är ytterligare en artikel om revivalrörelsens initialskede. Skivsessionen med Kid Rena förtjänar mer uppmärksamhet och presentationen lockar till lyssning för att bilda sig en egen uppfattning om (…) läs artikelnNew Orleans-renässans – om Kid Rena