I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

Jack Teagarden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 20, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B000001HG6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #246,981 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #97 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Traditional Jazz

Track Listings

1. That's A Serious Thing

2. I'm Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee

3. Dinah

4. Never Had A Reason To Believe In You

5. Tailspin Blues

6. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

7. Sheik Of Araby

8. Basin Street Blues

9. Beale Street Blues

10. (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You

11. Two Tickets To Georgia

12. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues

13. Ain't Cha Glad?

14. Texas Tea Party

15. A Hundred Years From Today

16. Fare Thee Well To Harlem

17. Christmas Night In Harlem

18. Davenport Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars *INTELLIGENT COLLECTION OF EARLY TEGARDEN*, April 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Audio CD)

The ASV/LIVING ERA label continually puts out many thoughtful releases, and this one is among their best. This is a brilliant selection of early Teagarden work (1929-1934) featuring an amazing all-star cast of players including Benny Goodman, Red Nichols, Glenn Miller, Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, Eddie Condon, Mezz Mezzrow, Joe Sullivan, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, Pee Wee Russell, Adrian Rollini, Johnny Mercer, Joe Venuti, and Eddie Lang.

The listener is treated to a whole mess of Teagarden's sleepy vocal charm, and a big helping of the virtuoso trombone playing which was his hallmark. The whole disc is chock full of swingin' Dixieland flavored jazz, and Big T characteristically imbues the tunes with deep blues feeling. Most tempos here are medium-hot, which perfectly suits the lilting musicianship of Teagarden, though some tracks, such as Two Tickets To Georgia, really zoom. We are even treated to two duets with Johnny Mercer (tracks 16 & 17). Sound quality on this disc is excellent, and all session information is provided, along with some notes about the man himself. There really isn't another single Teagarden disc which so expertly collects the great material from this period, so this is a very smart buy, and the price is sweet.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellend CD highlights his vocal talents., January 17, 2000

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ab (ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Audio CD)

One of the best blues and jazz singer from the 20's and 30's as well as oone of the all time greatest trombone players. A jazz legend, here are highlighted versions of the wonderful "100 Years From Today" as well as other delightful songs by this jazz legend. Buy it today

5.0 out of 5 stars 100 YEARS FROM TODAY HE'LL STILL BE GREAT, January 11, 2010

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Barry McCanna (Normandy, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Audio CD)

Jack Teagarden played with just about everybody who was anybody, and this CD presents an excellent snapshot of his activities between early 1929 and late 1934. That period roughly coincides with the Great Depression, when recording companies which hitherto had indulged the lusty infant jazz, became of necessity more commercial in their approach. Nevertheless, what is here managed somehow to satisfy on both counts, not least because of Jack's vocal delivery, a beguiling lazy Texan drawl. His trombone playing was similarly individual, allegedly because he began practising at such a young age that he couldn't fully extend the slide, and thus had to find intermediate positions, which gave his playing greater flexibility. The story may be apocryphal, but the evidence is here.