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R. Crumb’s Record Room Pt. 24
John’s Old Time Radio Show w/ Robert Crumb & Eden Brower. “EARLY AMERICAN JAZZ & DANCE BANDS”. Special Guest Robert Crumb plays 78 rpm records from his legendary record collection from the South of France with special guest Eden Brower on John Heneghan’s Old Time Radio Show.
1. Back Beats – Red Nichols
2. Make My Cot Where The Cot Cot Cotton Grows – Red Nichols
3. Blue Blowers Blues – Curtis Mosbly’s Blue Blowers
4. It’s Right Here For You – Blanche Calloway & Her Joy Boys
5. Some Of These Days – Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
6. Lucky “3-6-9” – Tiny Parham And His Musicians
7. The Ramble – Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders
8. That’s What I Like About You – Jack Teagarden featuring Fats Waller
Cab Calloway
Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders
Tiny Parham & His Musicians
Fats Waller
Jack Teagarden
Curtis Mosbly’s Blue Blowers
Andrew & Jim Baxter playing under “White’s Only” type sign.
Yes, very true and this is good info for listeners interested in Jazz for sure. My point was that of the young old-time music enthusiasts I come across out there I don’t see many who are interested in jazz and even less in dance bands. This is too bad. I will try to do more shows that focus on this music and hopefully help introduce it to a younger generation.
It’s not true that there are no reissues of old jazz and hot dance available to young listeners. Before there was Chris KIng, the late John R.T. Davies was widely considered as the best sound restorer of this kind of music. The labels to look out for are Frog (frog-records.co.uk), Jazz Oracle (jazzoracle.com), Retrieval (challenge.nl), Timeless (timelessjazz.com) and Rivermont (rivermontrecords.com). The two Red Nichols sides are on a complete set from Jazz Oracle, a Canadian label, which also has a reissue of the Curtis Mosbys. A take of the Blanche Calloway number is on a Retrieval sampler. Timeless has the complete Tiny Parham and also the Paul Howard on on West Coast compilation. The JSP label has two boxes of Cab Calloway by Davies and the complete Fats Waller on commercial recordings, restored by John R.T. Davies’ pupil Ted Kendall – JSP’s quality depends on which engineers they used. Rivermont has mainly white hot dance bands and piano novelty/ragtime recordings, including contemporary recordings. People interested in jazz violin are advised to consult Anthony Barnett’s website (abar.net) – he has his own label devoted to well-engineered reissues of various violin players. Finally, there is the HEP label (hepjazz.com) which devoted mainly to swing era material, but starts with the Tennessee Tooters, early Casa Loma and Mills’ Blue Rhythm Band, which can be very hot at times.