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PE0150. That Devilin’ Tune - A Jazz History, Vol. II, incl. Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Art Tatum, Jimmy Dorsey, Django Reinhardt, etc. (E.U.) 9-West Hill Radio Archives WHRA 6004, recorded 1927-34. Long out-of-print, Final Sealed Copy! - 4015023160040
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:
01 01 BEIDERBECKE, BIX / TRUMBAUER, FRANKIE - I'M COMIN'
02 MCKENZIE, RED / CONDON, EDDIE - NOBODY'S SWEETHEAR
03 OLSEN, GEORGE - SAM THE ACCORDIAN MAN
04 MILLER, RAY - MY HONEY'S LOVIN' ARMS
05 ELLINGTON, DUKE - WHAT CAN A POOR FELLOW DO
06 BEIDERBECKE, BIX - SORRY
07 DUMAINE, LOUIS - PRETTY AUDREY
08 DUMAINE, LOUIS - TO-WA-BA-CA
09 BEIDERBECKE, BIX / TRUMBAUER, FRANKIE - BALTIMORE
10 STONE, JESSE - BOOT TO BOOT
11 SPIKES, REB - MY MAMMY'S BLUES
12 JOHNNY HYMAN'S BAYOU STOMPERS - ALLIGATOR BLUES
13 DOODS, JOHNNY / PARHAM, TINY - OH DADDY
14 HANSHAW, ANNETTE - MISS ANNABELLE LEE
15 GOLDKETTE, JEAN - I' GONNA MEET MY SWEETIE NOW
16 WEEMS, TED - SHE'LL NEVER MEET A FELLOW LIKE ME
17 BRADFORD, PERRY - IT'S RIGHT HERE FOR YOU
18 DIXIE STOMPERS - WANG WANG BLUES
19 MCKINNEY, SADIE - ROCK AWAY
20 WHITEMAN, PAUL - CHANGES
21 WILLIAMSON'S BEALE STREET FROLIC ORCHESTRA - MIDNI
22 CELESTIN, OSCAR - IT'S JAM UP
23 VOORHEES, DON - SOLILOQUY
24 MOLE, MIFF - HONOLULU BLUES
02 01 TRUMBAUER, FRANKIE - HUMPTY DUMPTY
02 VENUTI & LANG - GOING PLACES
03 TRUMBAUER, FRANKIE - A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND
04 WHITEMAN, PAUL / CROSBY, BING - I'M COMIN' VIRGINI
05 ROBISON, CARSON / DALHART, VERNON - WHEN THE SUN G
06 WHITEMAN, PAUL - LONELY MELODY
07 GOLDKETTE, JEAN - I'M PROUD OF A BABY LIKE YOU
08 HINES, EARL - STOWAWAY
09 JACKSON, JIM - WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING
10 DICKERSON, CARROLL - SYMPHONIC RAPS
11 FREEMAN, BUD - CRAZEOLOGY
12 ELLINGTON, DUKE - SWAMPY RIVER
13 BURTON & BLYTHE - DUSTIN' THE KEYS
14 BERTON, BUDDY - SILVERY MOON
15 WATERS, ETHEL - GET UP OFF YOUR KNEES
16 JAXON, FRANKIE - JASPAR'S BARBECUE
17 LEWIS, TED - SHIM-ME-SHAW WOBBLE
18 LAMAR, SLIM - GOOFUS
19 BRITT, MART - GOOSE GREEK
20 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS - WEST END BLUES
21 DODDS, JOHNNY - BUCKTOWN STOMP
22 JONES, CLARENCE - 'MID THE PYRAMIDS
23 CARMICHAEL, HOAGY - WALKIN' THE DOG
24 MCKENZIE, RED / CONDON, E. - FROM MONDAY ON
25 BENTLEY, GLADYS - WORRIED BLUES
03 01 EDWARDS, CLIFF - THAT'S MY WEAKNESS NOW
02 TUB JUG WASHBOARD BAND - LADY QUIT HER HUSBAND...
03 ANDERSON, PINK / DOOLEY, SIMMIE - TIPPIN' OUT
04 CHICAGO FOOTWARMERS - GET 'EM AGAIN BLUES
05 DORSEY, TOMMY - IT'S RIGHT HERE FOR YOU
06 SENTER, BOYD - STACK O'LEE BLUES
07 SENTER, BOYD - SOMEBODY'S WRONG
08 KIMBROUGH, LOTTIE - WAYWARD GIRL BLUES
09 TUCKER, SOPHIE - 'CAUSE I FEEL LOW DOWN
10 DALLAS STRING BAND - I USED TO CALL HER BABY
11 FRENCHY'S STRING BAND - TEXAS & PACIFIC BLUES
12 SMITH, BESSIE / GREEN, CHARLIE - EMPTY BED BLUES
13 HAZEL, MONK - IDEAS
14 TRENT, ALPHONSO - NIGHTMARE
15 WHITEMAN, PAUL - SWEET SUE
16 WARD, JOE / SWANEE SERENADERS - TRAFFIC JAM
17 SIZZLERS, THE - DIGA DIGA DOO
18 CARROL DICKERSON'S SAVOY ORCHESTRA - MISSOURI SQUA
19 DORSEY BROTHERS, THE - MELANCHOLY BABY
20 TERRY, THELMA - VOICE OF THE SOUTHLAND
21 MEROFF, BENNY - SMILING SKIES
22 LEWIS, TED - CLARINET MARMALADE
23 PETTIS, JACK - BROADWAY STOMP
24 MCKINNEY'S COTTON PICKERS - STOP KIDDING
04 01 ELLINGTON, DUKE - TAKE IT EASY
02 JOHNSON, JAMES P. / ORCHESTRA - CHICAGO BLUES
03 JOHNSON, CHARLIE - CHARLESTON IS THE BEST DANCE OF
04 EVANS, ROY - JAZZBO DAN & HIS YODELIN' BAND
05 GOODMAN, BENNY - A JAZZ HOLIDAY
06 CALABRESE, LOU / HOT SKETHES - LIP-STICK
07 BERNARD, AL - 'TAINT SO HONEY, 'TAINT SO
08 VENUTI, JOE / NEW YORKERS - DOIN' THINGS
09 HORSEY'S HOT 5 - WEEPING BLUES
10 BEIDERBECKE, BIX / TRUMBAUER, FRANKIE - JUBILEE
11 JOHNSON, ALEC / MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS - SISTER MAUD M
12 MCKINNEY'S COTTON PICKERS - MY BLACKBIRDS ARE BLUE
13 CHICAGO RHYTHM KINGS - THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MA
14 SMITH, PINE TOP - NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOW
15 CROSBY, BING - MY KINDA LOVE
16 RHYTHM BOYS, THE - SO THE BLUEBIRDS & THE BLACKBIR
17 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS - BLUE TURNING GREY OVER YOU
18 MCKENZIE, RED / HAWK / RUSSEL - ONE HOUR
19 COCTEAU, JEAN - LA TOISON D'OR
20 TRUMBAUER, FRANKIE / BEIDERBECKE, BIX - I LIKE THA
21 ROBISON, CARSON & HIS KANSAS CITY JACKRABBITS - NO
22 LANGE, HENRY & HIS BAJER HOTEL ORCHESTRA - SOMEBOD
23 HARDY, MARLOW / ALABAMANS - SONG OF THE BAYOU
05 01 EZELL, WILL - WEST COAST RAG
02 DUERSON, HUERVE - AVENUE STRUT
03 STELLIO ORCHESTRA ANTILLAIS - EN SENS UNIQUE
04 L'ORCHESTRA ANTILLAIS - SERPENT MAIGRE
05 WALLER, FATS - SMASHING THIRDS
06 PARHAM, TINY - JUNGLE CRAWL
07 MISSOURIANS - MARKET STREET STOMP
08 SCOTT, CECIL - BRIGHT BOY BLUES
09 ELIZADE, FRED - NOBODY'S SWEETHEART
10 JUNGLETOWN STOMPERS - SLOW AS MOLASSES
11 WILLIAMS, FESS - DO SHUFFLE
12 TREMAINE, PAUL - FOUR FOUR RHYTHM
13 MILLER, EMMET - LOVIN' SAM
14 JACKSON, PAPA CHARLIE - BABY PLEASE LOAN ME YOUR H
15 THEARD, SAM - YOU RASCAL YOU
16 ALEXANDER, TEXAS / MISSISSIPPI SHEIKS - SEEN BETTE
17 DILLESHAW, JOHN - COTTON PATCH RAG
18 MEMPHIS JUG BAND - K C MOAN
19 ROBINSON, IKEY / BLYTHE, JIMMY - GIN MILL BLUES
20 BARNES, H. M. - MANDOLIN RAG
21 MISSISSIPPI MUD STEPPERS - JACKSON STOMP
22 HAYES, CLIFFORD - AUTOMOBILE STOMP
23 LANG, EDDIE / JOHNSON, LONNIE - HANDFUL OF RIFFS
24 JONES / COLLINS ASTORIA HOT EIGHT - DAMP WEATHER
06 01 SIMEON, OMER / HINES, EARL - BEAU KOO JACK
02 PAGE, WALTER / BLUE DEVULS - SQUABBLIN'
03 MILLS, FLOYD / MARYLANDERS - CHICAGO RHYTHM
04 WHYTE, ZACK - WEST END BLUES
05 WHITEMAN, PAUL - SONG OF INDIA
06 LANG, EDDIE / DORSEY, TOMMY / SCHUTT, ARTHUR - FRE
07 DORSEY, JIMMY - PRAYIN' THE BLUES
08 MORTON, JELLY ROLL - FREAKISH
09 LEE, GEORGE E. - ROUGH SCUFFLIN'
10 SMITH, JABBO - SWEET & LOW BLUES
11 NOONE, JIMMY / ALIX, MAY - MY DADDY ROCKS ME
12 GARNETT, BLIND LEROY - LOUISIANA GLIDE
13 BURRIS, JOHN - PICCOLO PETE
14 PURVIS, JACK - WHAT'S THE USE OF CRYIN' BABY ?
15 JOHNSON, JAMES P. - CRYIN' FOR THE CAROLINES
16 WILLIAMS, MARY LOU - NIGHT LIFE
17 CROSBY, BING - IT MUST BE TRUE
18 RUSSELL, LUIS - PANAMA
19 OLIVER, KING - YOU'RE JUST MY TYPE
20 TRENT, ALPHONSO - AFTER YOU'VE GONE
21 YOUNG, BILLIE / MORTON, J. R. - WHEN THEY GET LOVI
22 BLAKE, BLIND - RIGHTEOUS BLUES
23 TOBIER, BEN - HOT & HEAVY
24 DORSEY, JIMMY - I'M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY
07 01 EAST TEXAS SERENADERS - BABE
02 CARMICHAEL, HOAGY - BARNACLE BILL THE SAILOR
03 WHITEMAN, PAUL - CHOO CHOO
04 GARDNER, FRED / TEXAS UNIV. TROUBADOURS - NO TRUMP
05 TRENT, ALPHONSO - ST. JAMES INFIRMARY
06 LOMBARDO, GUY - ST. LOUIS BLUES
07 MOTEN, BENNIE - OH EDDIE
08 MOTEN, BENNIE - THAT TOO, DO
09 RECTOR TRIO - SKYLAND RAG
10 MELROSE, FRANK - PIANO BREAKDOWN
11 MELROSE, FRANK - COSMICS
12 KEMP, HAL - THEM THERE EYES
13 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS - DEAR OLD SOUTHLAND
14 BEIDERBECKE, BIX - DEEP DOWN SOUTH
15 CARMICHAEL, HOAGY - GEORGIA ON MY MIND
16 CELLAR BOYS, THE - WAILING BLUES
17 HENDERSON, FLETCHER - CHINATOWN
18 HENDERSON, FLETCHER - SOMEBODY LOVES ME
19 NICHOLS, RED - CHINA BOY
20 FINNELL, DOUGLAS / ROYAL STOMPERS - SWEET SWEET WO
21 FRANKO, FRANKIE - SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL
22 HENDERSON, FLETCHER - MY PRETTY GIRL
23 MILLS BLUE RHYTHM BAND - BLUE RHYTHM
08 01 PERKINS, RED - HARD TIMES STOMP
02 BAILEYS, MILDRED - GEORGIA ON MY MIND
03 BOSWELL, CONNIE - CONCENTRATIN' ON YOU
04 REINHARDT, DJANGO - CARINOSA
05 CLAPP, SONNY - EASY COME, EASY GO LOVE
06 BOSWELL SISTERS - SHOUT SISTER SHOUT
07 CALLOWAY, CAB - KICKIN' THE GONG AROUND
08 STATE STREET RAMBLERS - WILD MAN STOMP
09 KARDOS, GENE - BUSINESS IN F
10 RODGERS, JIMMY - TRAVELIN' BLUES
11 SHEIKS, ALABAMA - TRAVELIN' RAILROAD MAN BLUES
12 DORSEY BROTHERS - I CAN'T GET MISSISSIPPI OFF MY M
13 GOODMAN, BENNY - AFTER YOU'VE COME
14 WALLER, FATS - I'M CRAZY ABOUT MY BABY
15 SNOWDEN, ELMER - BUGLE CALL RAG
16 REDMAN, DON - TROUBLE WHY PICK ON ME?
17 JONES, ISHAM - SENTIMENTAL GENTLEMAN FROM GEORGIA
18 BECHET, SIDNEY / LADNIER, TOMMY - SWEETIE DEAR
19 EDINBOROUGH, EDDIE / LEECAN, BOBBY - BROWN BABY
20 LANG, EDDIE / KRESS, CARL - FEELING MY WAY
21 MOTEN, BENNIE - LAFAYETTE
22 PALMER, ROY / HUDSON, BOB - TROMBONE SLIDE
23 MEMPHIS NIGHTHAWKS - SWEET FEET
24 PONCE SISTERS - CONTENTED
25 CROSBY, BING - SOME OF THESE DAYS
09 01 CHOCOLATE DANDIES - BLUE INTERLUDE
02 CHOCOLATE DANDIES - CLOUDY SKIES
03 ELLINGTON, DUKE - MERRY GO ROUND
04 NORVO, RED - IN A MIST
05 CARTER, BENNY - SYMPHONY IN RIFFS
06 PUCKETT, RILEY - K. C. RAILROAD BLUES
07 POLLACK, BEN - TWO TICKETS TO GEORGIA
08 HAWKINS, C. / ALLEN, R. - THE DAY YOU CAME ALONG
09 CASA LOMA ORCHESTRA - WILD GOOSE CHASE
10 HUGHES, SPIKE - FIREBIRD
11 HUGHES, SPIKE - PASTORAL
12 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS - CHINATOWN
13 HAYMES, JOE - LIMEHOUSE BLUES
14 FOUR SOUTHERN SINGERS - HAMBONE AM SWEET
15 BRIGGS, ARTHUR - NOBODY SWEETHEART
16 REEVES, REUBEN - YELLOW FIRE
17 SPRITS OF RHYTHM - I GOT RHYTHM
18 ARMSTRONG, LOUIS - I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES
19 WILEY, LEE - I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES
20 TRENT, ALPHONSO - I FOUND A NEW BABY
21 TATUM, ART - SOPHISTIVATED LADY
22 BRANDSHAW, TINY - SHE'LL BE COMIN' ROUND THE MOUNT
23 MILLS BROTHERS - I FOUND A NEW BABY