From the Record Shelves #149 - Shivery Stomp (Seger Ellis)From the Record Shelves #149 – Shivery Stomp (Seger Ellis). Now I have managed to dig out the original piano version of this tune by Seger Ellis from my disorganized 78 rpm collection. Seger Ellis was a talented pianist and composer from Houston, Texas who somehow (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #148 - Shivery StompFrom the Record Shelves #148 – Shivery Stomp. On May 19, 1929, The Orchestra played at Metropolitan Opera House in New York, and a few days later they started on their trip to California to shoot the film King of Jazz by appearing in Philadelphia (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #143 - My Melancholy BabyFrom the Record Shelves #143 – My Melancholy Baby. This was something new when I found and bought it around 1970. The record itself was green and there were no details about the personnel and no text to read on the sleeve. You had to have the Brian Rust (…) read more and listenread more and listen