Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise

Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 14, 2004)
• Original Release Date: December 14, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Archeophone Records
• ASIN: B00073FGJ0
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,975 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Regretful Blues

2. Ev’rybody’s Crazy ‘Bout the Doggone Blues But I’m Happy

3. The Darktown Strutters’ Ball

4. Good-bye Alexander (Goodbye Honey Boy)

5. Indianola

6. Oh! You La! La!

7. Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody

8. Those Draftin’ Blues

9. Has Anybody Seen My Corinne

10. Dallas Blues

11. Ringtail Blues

12. Bluin’ the Blues

13. Rainy Day Blues

14. Ja-Da! (Ja-Da, Ja-Da, Jing, Jing, Jing)

15. A Good Man Is Hard to Find

16. Lonesome Road

17. That’s Got ’Em

18. Kansas City Blues

19. Slide, Kelly, Slide

20. I’ll Say She Does

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Paradise" is the word!, January 28, 2005

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Lee Hartsfeld (Central Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise (Audio CD)

Marvelous early jazz easily on a par with the recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, though more big-band in style. I've been an enormous fan of Sweatman ever since hearing "Ringtail Blues" many years ago--"a ragtime orchestra gone berserk" was my description of this wonderful side. If only I'd gotten to hear the manic, drum-dominated "Oh! You La! La!" all those years ago, a side even more remarkable in its raggy jazzness than "Ringtail." And there is the remarkable Sweatman-penned jam number, "That's Got 'Em," which nearly qualifies as pre-1920 swing! There's a delightful kind of controlled sloppiness to the playing on these sides, a quality that is calculated and studied and always effective. I refer to a type of jazzy looseness that only the very best musicians can pull off. And these are great musicians. Bless Archeophone for giving us this priceless slice of jazz history. Get this one in your collection!