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PE0149 That Devilin’ Tune - A Jazz History, Vol. I, incl. W. C. Handy, Eubie Blake, Kid Ory, Al Jolson, Bert Williams, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, etc. (E.U.) 9-West Hill Radio Archives WHRA 6003, recorded 1895 - 1927. Long out-of-print, Final Sealed Copy! - 4015023160033
CRITIC REVIEW:
“The musical landscape that gave birth to jazz during the late 19th and early 20th centuries has seldom been accurately depicted, and is still only partially understood even by the few who try to interact with it on more than a superficial level. While artificially imposed genre delineations have long been used to organize and market audio recordings, they often make a mockery of the diverse culture within which the music evolved. When in 2006 the West Hill Radio Archives brought out the first of four sizable box sets of nine CDs, each containing a total of 851 examples dating from 1895-1950, the producers of the series achieved an unprecedented degree of panoramic comprehensiveness. Vol. 1, a varied and unusually inclusive core sample of historic recordings, traces the multifaceted roots of the tradition by including much of what was in the air when the earliest glimmers of jazz began to appear. (All that is missing, it seems, is the influence of Italian opera and European art music, although these elements are certainly detectable here and there.) Practically everything else that has anything to do with the simultaneous inception of jazz throughout North America is represented here. That includes syncopated orchestral novelties, cakewalks, and ragtime; topical ditties played by military bands and wind ensembles; early vocal harmony groups; traditional folk, and Tin Pan Alley pop; tap dancing, vaudeville, and minstrelsy; Caribbean and Latin American dance music; blues, barrelhouse, jug bands, stride piano, hot jazz, big bands, and early swing.
THAT DEVILIN' TUNE, the song for which the collection was named, is heard performed by Broadway star Stella Mayhew (1875-1934), mainly remembered today for a series of Edison records she cut with vocalist Billie Taylor in 1910 and 1912. The inherent inference of the title is unmistakable -- stage performers, and especially jazz musicians, were saddled with small-minded pejoratives from the get-go, and blues in particular was singled out as ‘the devil's music’." What makes this anthology so thrilling is the inclusion of rarities by artists both legendary and little-known. Bert Williams, Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Al Jolson, Freddie Keppard, Fats Waller, and W.C. Handy co-exist with John Philip Sousa, Voss' 1st Regiment Band, an Argentine tango ensemble known as the Orquesta Typica, and the Brazilian Grupo Bahianainho. Listen for James P. Johnson's very first solo record; Trinidadian pianist Lionel Belasco's Barbados-inspired ‘Bajan Girl’, and ragtime pioneer Ben Harney's phonograph cylinder from 1925. ‘Deacon Jazz’ and ‘Oh How I Love My Darling’ are drawn from near the very beginning of Duke Ellington's discography; the nominal leaders of the zippy little band heard on these sides were drummer Sonny Greer and vocalist Joe Trent. This is a breathtaking reservoir of great old-time music. It is not overkill, nor has it been thrown together haphazardly like so many other quarry-sized compilations. Well-worth investigating not only for the presence of old friends like Bix Beiderbecke, Jelly Roll Morton, and the Boswell Sisters, but especially ever heard before.
- arwulf arwulf, allmusic.com
TRACK LISTING:
DISC 1:
1. Who Broke the Lock - The Standard Quartette
2. Aunt Dinah`s Supper Party - Voss` Ist Regiment Band
3. Clime de Golden Fence - Len Spencer
4. Coon Town Capers - Metropolitan Orchestra
5. Whistlin` Rufus - Sousa Band
6. You`ve Been a Good Old Wagon - Len Spencer
7. My Little Zulu Babe - Williams & Walker
8. Bill Bailey - Arthur Collins
9. On Emancipation Day - Len Spencer
10. Rooster Dance - Hager`s Orchestra
11. Buffalo Rag - Vess Ossman
12. St. Louis Tickle - Prince`s Orchestra
13. St. Louis Rag - Pryor`s Band
14. La Patti Negra - Orquestra Typicas
15. Bride of the Waves - Sir Herbert Clarke
16. When You Ain`t Got No Money - May Irwin
17. Parson Jones Three Reasons - Arthur Collins
18. That Beautiful Rag - Stella Mayhew/Billie Taylor
19. That Lovin` Rag - Sophie Tucker
20. That Devilin` Time - Stella Mayhew
21. Alexander`s Ragtime Band - Collins & Harlan
22. Some of These Days - Sophie Tucker
23. El Cavito - Grupo Bahianainho
24. Bambino - Grupo Bahianainho
25. Destimido - Grupo Bahianainho
26. Red Pepper Rag - Prince`s Orchestra
27. King of the Bungaloos - Gene Greene
DISC 2: THAT DEVILIN` TUNE - A JAZZ HISTORY VOL 1:
1. Wild Cherries Rag - Ed Morton
2. That Lovin` Traumeri - Al Jolson
3. Red Onion Rag - Roy Spangler
4. Temptation Rag - Orch. De Palais De Dance
5. San Francisco Bay - Hedges Brothers & Jacobson
6. Down Home Rag - James Reese Europe
7. You Can`t Get Away From It - Bert Williams
8. Blame It on the Blues - Victor Military Orchestra
9. Follow the Crowd - Irving Berlin
10. You Can`t Get Away From It - Nora Bayes
11. Castle House Rag - James Reese Europe
12. Bajan Girl - Lionel Belasco
13. When You`re a Long Way From Home - Joan Sawyer`s Persian Garden Orchestra
14. Alagazam - Peerless Quartet
15. Sunset Medley - Gustave Haenschen
16. Country Club Medley - Gustave Haenschen
17. Raggin` the Scale - Fred Van Eps
18. Homesickness Blues - Nora Bayes
19. Paradise Blues - Marion Harris
20. St. Louis Blues - Ciro`s Coon Club Orchestra
21. Slippery Hank - Earl Fuller`s Famous Jazz Band
22. Canary Cottage - Frisco Jazz Band
23. Calico Rag - Frank Banta
DISC 3: THAT DEVILIN` TUNE - A JAZZ HISTORY VOL 1:
1. Johnson Jass Blues - Frisco Jazz Band
2. Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag - W.C. Handy
3. That Funny Jas Band - Collins & Harlan
4. Riff Johnson`s Harmony Band - Gene Greene
5. Dixieland Jass Band One Step - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
6. At the Jazz Band Ball - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
7. Tackin` em Down - Van & Schenck
8. Jazz Deluxe - Earl Fuller
9. Rockabye Your Baby - Al Jolson
10. Everybody`s Crazy About the Doggone Blues But I`m Happy - Wilbur Sweatman
11. Indianola - Wilbur Sweatman
12. Ole Miss - Original New Orleans Jazz Band
13. Jada Medley - Original New Orleans Jazz Band
14. Why Cry Blues - Original New Orleans Jazz Band
15. Kansas City Blues - Wilbur Sweatman
16. I`m Done - Alex Rogers
17. Streets of Cairo, The - Art Hickman
18. I Ain`t Got `Em No Time to Have the Blues - Louisiana Five
19. Clarinet Squawk - Louisiana Five
20. Wonderful Pal - Art Hickman
21. Take Me to the Land of Jazz - Marion Harris
22. When Shadows Fall I Hear You Calling - Isham Jones
23. Wait`ll You See - Isham Jones
DISC 4: THAT DEVILIN` TUNE - A JAZZ HISTORY VOL 1:
1. Unlucky Blues - Bert Williams
2. Weeping Willow Blues - Louisiana Five
3. Wang Wang Blues - Paul Whiteman
4. Sounds of Africa - Eubie Blake
5. Brother Low Down - Bert Williams
6. Harlem Strut - James P. Johnson
7. Poor Buttermilk - Zez Confrey
8. There`ll Be Some Changes Made - Ethel Waters
9. Frankie and Johnny - Al Bernard
10. Shake It and Break It - Ladd`s Black Aces
11. Aunt Hagar`s Children`s Blues - Ladd`s Black Aces
12. Old Time Blues - Johnny Dunn
13. Ma - Eubie Blake
14. Royal Garden Blues - Mamie Smith`s Jazz Hounds
15. Unknown Blues - Fletcher Henderson
16. Muscle Shoals Blues - Unidentified
17. Low Down Blues - Sissle`s Sizzling Syncopators
18. Long Gone - Sissle`s Sizzling Syncopators
19. I`ll Be Good But I`ll Be Lonesome - Southern Negro Quartet
20. Pick Me up and Lay Me Down in Dear Old Dixieland - Sophie Tucker
21. San - Husk O`Hare
22. Ory`s Creole Trombone - Kid Ory
23. Society Blues - Kid Ory
24. She Walked Right up and Took My Man Away - Lizzie Miles
DISC 5: THAT DEVILIN` TUNE - A JAZZ HISTORY VOL 1:
1. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - The Cotton Pickers
2. Birmingham Blues - Fats Waller
3. Montmartre Rag - Mitchell`s Jazz Kings
4. Stumbling - Mitchell`s Jazz Kings
5. Wild Cat Blues - Sidney Bechet
6. Jazzin` Babies Blues - King Oliver
7. You Tell Her, I Stutter - The Cotton Pickers
8. Loose Feet - The Georgians
9. Wolverine Blues - Jelly Roll Morton
10. Big Fat Ham - Jelly Roll Morton
11. Wolverine Stomp - The Sunset Band
12. Cruel Woman - Hitch`s Happy Harmonists
13. Farewell Blues - Isham Jones
14. Misery Blues - Q. Roscoe Snowden
15. Chinaman`s Blues - Erskine Tate`s Vendome Orchestra
16. Hatchethead Blues - Old Southern Jug Band
17. Jubilee Blues - Belle Baker
18. Ill Natured Blues - Bennie Moten/Ada Brown
19. House of David Blues - Midway Dance Orchestra
20. I Just Want a Daddy - Charles Matson
21. Scouting Around - James P. Johnson
22. West Indies Blues - Piron`s New Orleans Orchestra
23. Play That Thing - Ollie Powers
24. When the Jazz Band Starts to Play - Tom Morris
DISC 6: THAT DEVILIN` TUNE - A JAZZ HISTORY VOL 1:
1. Lots O` Mama - Midway Dance Orchestra
2. Shreveport Blues - Clarence Williams` Blue Five
3. London Blues - Jelly Roll Morton
4. Mr. Crump`s Rag - Jesse Crump
5. New Orleans Joys - Jelly Roll Morton
6. Wolverine Blues - Jimmie`s Joys
7. Lady Luck Blues - Mamie Smith
8. If I Can`t Have the Sweetie - Paul Whiteman
9. Mobile Blues - Wade`s Moulin Rouge Orchestra
10. Tim Roof Blues - New Orleans Rhythm Kings
11. Hard Hearted Hannah - Cliff Edwards
12. Frankie and Johnny - Fate Marable
13. Where`s My Sweetie Hiding - Arcadia Peacock Orchestra Of St. Louis
14. Rip Saw Blues - Art Landry & His Orchestra
15. Helen Gone - Vincent Rose Orchestra
16. Monkey Business - Elmer Kaiser & His Ballroom Orchestra
17. Pleasure Mad - Charlie Creath
18. Copenbagen - Fletcher Henderson
19. There`ll Be Some Changes Made - Marion Harris
20. Red Hot - Mound City Blue Blowers
21. Comfortin` Gal - Wendell Hall
22. I Wonder Where My Easy Rider`s Riding Now - Johnny Bayersdorffer
23. Christine - Original Crescent City Jazz Band
24. Everygbody Loves My Baby - Clarence Williams
25. Sweet Like You - Harry Reser
DISC 7: THAT DEVILIN` TUNE - A JAZZ HISTORY VOL 1:
1. Really a Pain - Bucktown 5
2. Deacon Jazz - Duke Ellington
3. Oh How I Love My Baby - Duke Ellington
4. Chicago - Moulin Rouge Orchestra
5. South - Bennie Moten
6. Goofy Dust - Bennie Moten
7. Hard Hearted Hannah - Rosa Henderson
8. Wolverine Blues - Jelly Roll Morton
9. Where`s My Sweetie Hiding - Perly Breed
10. Henpecked Blues - Charlie Straight
11. Hula Lu - Clarence Jones
12. I`m Glad - Sioux City Six
13. Those Panama Mamas - The Cotton Pickers
14. Lazy - Blossom Seely
15. Number 2 Blues - Johnny De Droit
16. Riverboat Shuffle - Wolverines
17. Skoodlum Blues - Jimmy O`Bryant
18. Too Sweet For Words - Lovie Austin
19. Chili Pepper - Fred Longshaw
20. Keep Your Temper - Gulf Coast 7
21. Nights When I`m Lonely - Bowell Sisters
22. Why Can`t It Be Poor Little Me - Stomp 6
23. Careless Love - Oscar Celestin`s Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra
24. Down and Out Blues - Louis Forbstein`s Royal Syncopators
25. Ain`t No Flies on Auntie - Perry`s Hot Dogs
DISC 8: THAT DEVILIN` TUNE - A JAZZ HISTORY VOL 1:
1. Sweet Georgia Brown - The Tennessee Happy Boys
2. Wagon, The - Ben Harney
3. My Pretty Girl - Charles Fulcher
4. Charleston Charlie - Wilshire Dance Orchestra
5. Squeeze Me - Bessie Smith
6. Squeeze Me - Clarence Williams` Blue 5
7. Grandpa`s Spells - Charlie Creath
8. Dallas Blues - Maggie Jones
9. Cataract Rag - Hitch`s Happy Harmonists
10. Nightingale Rag Blues - Hitch`s Happy Harmonists
11. Sugarfoot Stomp - Merritt Brunies & His Friars Inn Orchestra
12. Yes Sir That`s My Baby - Blossom Seely
13. Scratch - Blue Ribbon Syncopators
14. Dirty Rag - Brownlee`s Orchestra Of New Orleans
15. Sweet Man - Danny Small & His Ukulele Boys
16. Jimmies Blues - Jimmie Blythe
17. Grandpa`s Spells - Jelly Roll Morton
18. I Found a New Baby - Ethel Waters
19. Messin` Around - Cookie`s Ginger Snaps
20. Deep Henderson - Charlie Straight
21. Rainy Nights - Duke Ellington
22. Stockholm Stomp - The California Ramblers
23. How Do You Like It Blues - Art Sims & His Creole Band
24. Sam the Accordion Man - The Williams Sisters
25. Sengalese Stomp - Savoy Bearcats
DISC 9: THAT DEVILIN` TUNE - A JAZZ HISTORY VOL 1:
1. Sweetheart O` Mine - Jelly Roll Morton
2. Southern Shout - The Dixieland Jug Blowers
3. Deep Henderson - King Oliver
4. Birth of the Blues, The - Francis Carter
5. Kansas City Shout - Bennie Moten
6. East Arkansas Shout - Sammie Lewis
7. Gatemouth - Kid Ory/Johnny Dodds
8. Too Tight Blues - Kid Ory/Johnny Dodds
9. He`s the Last Word - Ben Pollack
10. Get With - The Redhead
11. High Fever - Coon-Sanders Orchestra
12. I`ll Fly to Hawaii - Brad Gowans
13. Trouble in Mind - Bertha "Chippie" Hill
14. Panama City Ltd. - Ada Brown
15. Brotherly Love - Elgar`s Creole Orchestra
16. Go Joe Go - Phil Napoleon
17. Lazy Drag - Thomas Morris
18. Grayson Street Blues - Margaret Johnson
19. Hot Mustard - Fletcher Henderson
20. Stockyard Strut - Freddie Keppard
21. Old Man Blues - Jimmie Blythe
22. Drew Drop Alley - Sugar Underwood
23. Steppin` on the Gas - Sam Morgan
24. Who`s You Tellin` - The Pebbles
25. Hotter Than That - Louis Armstrong