Phil Napoleon Archives - Paul – and some of that Jazz

From the Record Shelves #330 – Five Pennies – The title of the LP, Rare Vertical Jazz, refers to the recording system used by Edison. Their discs were different: You needed special equipment to play them, and the playing time of a record was longer than the normal three minutes. No reliable records (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #27 – Bass Ale Blues. We listen to the New York based five-piece group Original Memphis Five (that had nothing to do with the latter mentioned town) develop from 1923 until December 1926. In the early recordings (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #3 – Anything. This mood piece is played by a group under Phil Napoleon’s formal leadership. Filippo Napoli as was his birth name had success with his group Original Memphis Five and recorded plenty of music with this and under their different pseudonyms (…) read more and listenread more and listen