Baby Won't You Please Come Hom (2001) ( )

Artist: Clarence Williams
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Product Summary
Label: Asv Living Era
UPC: 00743625540321
Release Date: 9/25/2001
Buy.com Sku: 60500132
Item#: MN2HX9
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? ~ Clarence Williams
2. Gulf Coast Blues - (with Bessie Smith) ~ Clarence Williams
3. Wild Cat Blues ~ Clarence Williams
4. Kansas City Man Blues ~ Clarence Williams
5. 'Tain't Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do ~ Clarence Williams
6. Everybody Loves My Baby ~ Clarence Williams
7. Mandy, Make Up Your Mind ~ Clarence Williams
8. Cake Walking Babies From Home ~ Clarence Williams
9. Papa De-Da-Da ~ Clarence Williams
10. Gravier Street Blues ~ Clarence Williams
11. Candy Lips I'm Stuck On You ~ Clarence Williams
12. Cushion Foot Stomp ~ Clarence Williams
13. Red Hot Flo From Ko-Ko-Mo ~ Clarence Williams
14. Church Street Sobbin' Blues ~ Clarence Williams
15. Wild Flower Rag - (Piano Solo) ~ Clarence Williams
16. West End Blues - (with Ethel Waters) ~ Clarence Williams
17. Organ Grinder Blues - (with Ethel Waters) ~ Clarence Williams
18. In The Bottle Blues ~ Clarence Williams
19. Breeze, Blow My Baby Back To Me ~ Clarence Williams
20. Whoop It up ~ Clarence Williams
21. I've Found A New Baby - (with James P. Johnson) ~ Clarence Williams
22. Worn Out Blues - (with Eva Taylor) ~ Clarence Williams
23. He Wouldn't Stop Doin' It ~ Clarence Williams
24. Shout, Sister, Shout ~ Clarence Williams
25. Dispossessin' Me ~ Clarence Williams



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel includes: Clarence Williams (vocals, piano); Bessie Smith, Eva Taylor (vocals); Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet (trumpet); King Oliver, Red Allen, Eddie Lang, Louis Metcalfe, Buster Bailey, Don Redman, Prince Robinson.
Personnel: Clarence Williams (vocals, piano); Eva Taylor, Bessie Smith (vocals); Ikey Robinson (guitar); Buddy Christian , Goldie Lucas, Leroy Harris (banjo); Albert Socarras, Russell Procope (clarinet, alto saxophone); Cecil Scott, Benny Moten , Ben Whitted (clarinet); Sidney Bechet, Buster Bailey (soprano saxophone); Bingie Madison, Henry Jones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Don Redman, Fred Skerritt (alto saxophone); Arville Harris (tenor saxophone); Ward Pinkett, Bill Dillard (trumpet); Ed Allen, Louis Armstrong, Thomas Morris (cornet); Aaron Thompson, Jimmy Archey, John Mayfield, Wilbur DeParis, Ed Cuffee, Charlie Irvis (trombone); Cyrus St. Clair (tuba); Gene Rodgers, Herman Chittison (piano); George Stafford, Bill Beason (drums); Floyd Casey (washboard); Justin Ring (percussion).
Audio Remasterer: Tim Debney.
Liner Note Author: Vic Bellerby.
Recording information: New York, NY (02/16/1923-08/18/1933).
Photographer: Laurie Wright.
Afro-Creole-Choctaw-American pianist, vocalist, washboard percussionist, comedian, composer, producer, music publisher, accompanist, and bandleader Clarence Williams played a crucial role in the development of jazz and blues in New York City during the 1920s. Often using one-shot pseudonyms for his bands and combining players from New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago with the cream of Harlem's entertainment scene, Williams presided over an astonishing number and variety of blues and jazz recording sessions between the years 1921 and 1937. Williams had an uncanny ability to get his name onto other people's tunes as co-composer simply by virtue of having published the song in question. (Note for example that "Wild Cat Blues," 19-year-old Fats Waller's first important published song, has Williams' name inserted before Waller's.) On February 16, 1923, not long after settling in New York, Williams provided piano accompaniment for archetypal blues singer Bessie Smith (who had come to New York with Williams) on her very first session for Columbia Records. The inclusion of their rendition of Williams' own "Gulf Coast Blues" may be savored as a glowing example of the many dozens of accompaniments he provided for a large number of blues vocalists. The Blue Five sessions of 1923-1925 resulted in a series of records that are regarded by historians as cardinal achievements in early jazz. The presence of young Louis Armstrong and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet has kept these recordings in relatively perpetual availability for decades. Seasoned early jazz heads will also thrill to the sounds of cornetist Thomas Morris, trombonist Charlie Irvis, Buster Bailey playing soprano, and Don Redman blowing the alto sax. The other important presence on many of these sides is vocalist Eva Taylor, who had married Clarence Williams in 1921. This excellent compilation proceeds chronologically, featuring quite a number of washboard-driven ensembles, Williams' solo piano realization of his own "Wildflower Rag," a pair of duets he waxed with singer Ethel Waters, and the marvelous "In the Bottle Blues" with cornetist King Oliver, guitarist Eddie Lang, and percussionist Justin Ring, who spices up the proceedings with a small crash cymbal while using a gin bottle as a drum. Clarence Williams and James P. Johnson recorded "I've Found a New Baby" on January 31, 1931. This two-piano vaudeville routine, rich in humor as well as Harlem stride piano, is the flip side of the better-known and even funnier "How Could I Be Blue?," which can be found on Living Era's excellent James P. Johnson compilation, Carolina Shout. ~ arwulf arwulf

Musical Guests
Louis Armstrong
King Oliver
Eddie Lang
Red Allen
Sidney Bechet
Bessie Smith
Don Redman

 
Compilation Appearances
Vol. 2-Jazz & Blues Piano
EDISON COLLECTION: JAZZ & BLUES ON EDISON 1 /
Complete Recorded Works Vol 1

 
Associated Artists and Works
Morris, Thomas
Morris, Thomas (Cornet)
West Jesmond Rhythm Kings ~ West Jesmond Rhythm Kings With

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 09/25/2001
Original Release Date : 2001
Catalog ID : 5403
Label : ASV
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Mono
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00743625540321

  
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