Tag: Victor

From the Record Shelves #222 – The Rooster Crowing Blues – Hosea Woods sings, “I used to be a lover, baby, in my younger days. Now I’m old and feeble, but I still got my loving ways.” With recordings like “Walk Right In,” Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers inspired young people (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #204 – Dinah – The Jean Goldkette Orchestra is known mostly for the classic recordings it made when Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer were featured jazz soloists in 1926-27. How did the band sound prior to that? In January -26 (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #140 – Too Tight. Even if the main ingredient is missing, there is a lot of King Oliver connections in this band that played at Kelly’s Stable in Chicago and recorded for Victor in 1929. Five of the six musicians were members of King Oliver’s (…) read more and listenread more and listen