My belief that this is Arville rests on comparison of three solos 'Red Hot Flo', Leroy Tibbs 'One O'clock Blues' and Waller 'Harlem Fuss' in which I find near...
Following Chris Hillman's proposal that the clarinet on "Red Hot Flo" was Clifford King, I checked my copy of Rust, which only gives him for several sessions...
The fact is that a test pressing has been reported from an earlier Thomas' Devils session with the names of Mutt Carton and Ed Boudreux written on the label....
Further to my previous, I agree that trumpet and reed are probably the same on the Mutts, Devils and KC TR Stompers though I don't think this is Cicero now by...
Michael et all Glad to see this come up again, I like Red Hot Flo, and hope you are having a good day. Clifford "Clarinet"; King was a consideration of...
Hello Yves and indeed happy remembrances of Louis, I think I listened to the samples you mention (maybe with one exception)and was slightly frustrated by the...
Dear Marco, I've just compared Faye Ballard's "Grandpa's Spells" with Jelly Roll's piano roll (cut in1924-28), and recorded at Studio Sofreson January, 1992...
Thanks Chris I shall relisten SSRs but had previously convinced myself that Cicero is throughout the Frog. The SSRs were previously taken for Natty and there...
Hello Yves Nice to have you back. You know I am convinced on Arville but agree his varying standards. His playing of almost the identical solo is far better on...
Enjoyable hours listening again to Cicero -- lucky me. But nothing tangible to reverse my opinion that it is the same player throughout the Frog as on the SSRs...
You may well be right about Cicero throughout the King Mutt CD but we cannot ignore this test pressing which is not from the 1925 session but an unissued...
Listening yet again the King Mutts. I find two exhortations to 'Play it Mutt' -- on 'Good Time Mama' during a trumpet solo and on 'Nut House Stomp' during a...
Hi, I keep reading two different versions on who played the slide whistle on songs like Sobbin' Blues - most say it was Louis Armstrong, others say it was Baby...
Hi again. I am not 100% positive if there are any Sidney Bechet recordings in which he primarily plays clarinet - it seems he switched to soprano saxophone so...
There's the March 10th 1945 Blue Note session with Bunk Johnson where he plays clarinet throughout. The story as I have heard it is that Bechet bought a...
There are so many recordings on which Bechet played only (or primarily) clarinet that it's not possible to provide a comprehensive list here, but below I have...
Comprehensive list and overview of Bechet's clarinet there Nick. Is there anybody who prefers his soprano ? I reckon a bad day for our music when he saw the...
Thanks for all your answers! ... Er... I did not change any subject lines - I came up with that topic all by myself :-) (I haven't checked any more recent...
Thanks again for your answers! ... Ah, gotcha, no problem. But no, as I said I haven't gotten far enough through the archives yet, so if such a thread exists...
Not really knowing which of the previous threads to choose, I'm picking the ... For everyone's convenience, I am glad to announce that the complete 5-page 1903...
In researching Slick Jones, a question has arisen about how often Fats' group, His Rhythm, would accompany him on tour. Obviously Fats sometimes was booked...
