Notes & Personnel Info |  | Performers include: Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Albert Ammons, Muggsy Spanier, Sidney Bechet, Jack Teagarden, Jimmie Noone, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Art Tatum. | | Personnel: Bud Scott (vocals, banjo); Don Redman (vocals, clarinet, alto saxophone); Joe Thomas (vocals, tenor saxophone, trumpet); Sy Oliver (vocals, trumpet); Jack Teagarden (vocals, trombone); Fats Waller (vocals, piano); Lionel Hampton (vocals, vibraphone); Willie "The Lion" Smith, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday (vocals); Fred Guy (guitar, banjo); Al Norris (guitar, violin); Django Reinhardt, Freddie Green, Ike Perkins, Bob Lessey, Allan Reuss, Nappy Lamare, Eugene Vees, Roger Chaput, Carmen Mastren (guitar); Dave Wilborn, Mancy Cara, Johnny St. Cyr (banjo); Joe Venuti, St?phane Grappelli (violin); Sidney Bechet (clarinet, soprano saxophone); Dan Grissom, Wim Poppink, Dalbert Bright, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Carter , Buster Bailey (clarinet, alto saxophone); Coleman Hawkins, Andre Van Den Ouderaa, Jimmy Strong, Ted McCord, Lester Young, Pee Wee Russell, Rudy Jackson, Barney Bigard (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, Larry Shields , Omer Simeon, Benny Goodman (clarinet); Harry Carney, Jack Washington, Earl Carruthers (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Doc Ryker, Earle Warren, Joe Poston , Joe Catalyne, Scoops Carey, Max Farley, Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick, Toots Mondello, Willie Smith, Hymie Schertzer (alto saxophone); Chu Berry, Arthur Rollini, Elmer Williams, Herschel Evans, Clark Dick, Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Frankie Trumbauer (C-melody saxophone); Edgar Sampson (baritone saxophone); Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone); Louis Armstrong (trumpet, cornet); Sterling Bose, Nate Kazebier, Cootie Williams, Leonard Davis, Ed Lewis, George Van Helvoirt, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Jack Bulterman, Jabbo Smith, Guy Kelly, Joe "Fox" Smith , Paul Webster , Rex Stewart, Roy Eldridge, Sidney DeParis, Louis Metcalf, Dick Vance, Wallace Jones, Buck Clayton, Bunny Berigan, Charlie Teagarden (trumpet); King Oliver, Muggsy Spanier, Nick LaRocca, Red Nichols, Bix Beiderbecke (cornet); Bill Rank, Jack Lacey, Dicky Wells, Eddie Durham, Eddie Edwards, Sam Nanton, Fernando Arbello, Fred Robinson , Russell Bowles, Honore Dutrey, Marcel Thielemans, Elmer Crumbley, Juan Tizol, Kid Ory, Lawrence Brown , Benny Morton, Dan Minor, Claude Jones, Ed Cuffee, Red Ballard, Charlie Green (trombone); Count Basie, Paul Mertz, Duke Ellington, Edwin Wilcox, Fletcher Henderson, Frank Froeba, Henry Ragas, Jelly Roll Morton, Jess Stacy, Albert Ammons, Lil Armstrong, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Arthur Schutt, Earl Hines (piano); Cuba Austin, Joe Craig Jones, Kees Kranenburg, Johnny Wells, Chauncey Moorhouse, Jimmie Hoskins, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Crawford , Andrew Hilaire, Big Sid Catlett, Sonny Greer, Baby Dodds, Tony Sbarbaro, Vic Berton, Zutty Singleton, Stan King (drums). | | Audio Remasterer: Martin Haskell. | | Liner Note Author: Vic Bellerby. | | Recording information: Chicago, IL (03/25/1918-04/05/1940); Hollywood, CA (03/25/1918-04/05/1940); Laren (03/25/1918-04/05/1940); New York, NY (03/25/1918-04/05/1940); Paris, France (03/25/1918-04/05/1940). | | Unknown Contributor Role: Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra. | | A "Finest Vintage Jazz" collection brings lofty expectations, and this second volume of the ASV/Living Era reissue series delivers wholeheartedly. The choices of material on this 24-track compilation are impeccable, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a favorite or even one pooch. Among the all-time no-brainers are Jelly Roll Morton's "Black Bottom Stomp," King Oliver's "Dippermouth Blues," Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong doing "Careless Love," Armstrong's "West End Blues," Albert Ammons' immortal "Boogie Woogie Stomp," Benny Goodman's "King Porter Stomp," Fletcher Henderson's "Christopher Columbus," Django Reinhardt and St?phane Grappelli's Hot Club of France with "Honeysuckle Rose," and Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" -- and way, way more. This CD is fully loaded with great tunes from the first 30 years of recorded jazz, and is easily recommended to the novice, historian, or nostalgia buff. ~ Michael G. Nastos |
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