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HOT MOMENTS FROM THE GREY GULL BANDS, December 12, 2010
This review is from: Grey Gull Rarities (Audio CD)
I've commented before on Amazon's failure to provide any information on the tracklist, and this is another example. So here it is:
Leroy Smith's Dance Orchestra
1. Harlem's Araby (and 24)
International Dance Orchestra
2. Copenhagen
Original Dixie Rag Pickers
3. Strut Your Jones
Universal Dance Orchestra
4. Pepper Blues
The Hilltoppers
5. Tiger Rag
Nashville Jazzers
6. St. Louis Blues (and 25)
Grey Gull House Band
7. It's Tight Like That
8. Sweet Little Sis
9. Sweetheart It's You
10. Stomp Along
11. Wow-Wow Blues
12. St. James Infirmary Blues
Sam Lanin & his Orchestra
13. The Free and Easy
14. Dancing with Tears in My Eyes
Nick Nichols & his Orchestra
15. Breakin' a Leg
Memphis Jazzers
16. Don't Know and Don't Care
17. Ev'rybody Dance
18. Miss Golden Brown
19. In Harlem's Araby
Big Time Trio
20. Hot Moments
Levee Syncopators
21. The Rackett (and 26)
22. The Harlem Stomp Down (and 27)
California Ramblers
23. Happy Days are Here Again
Tracks 24 to 27 are alternate takes
Grey Gull was a cheap US label that came into being in 1919, and relied for its dance band records on a small core of studio musicians that often included Mike Mosiello on trumpet, and Andy Sannella on reeds and steel guitar. Masters were issued, often pseudonomynously, on a variety of labels, including Radiex, Van Dyke, Globe, and Madison, and in England on Goodson and Piccadilly. From that bewildering assortment Jazz Oracle has assembled a fine assortment of hot sides, some of which were once attributed to King Oliver. As is usual with Jazz Oracle reissues, there is a complete discography (albeit that some personnel remain unidentified) and an illustrated liner note which provides much background information to the recordings.
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