With Louis Armstrong & Sidney Bechet

Clarence Williams | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 9, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Giants of Jazz (Ita)
• ASIN: B00000G1RT
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,566,956 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cake Walking Babies from Home

2. Everybody Loves My Baby

3. Shreveport Blues

4. Mandy, Make Up Your Mind

5. I'm a Little Blackbird (Looking for a Bluebird)

6. Old Fashioned Love

7. Oh Daddy! (Oh Daddy! You Won't Have No Mama at All)

8. Texas Moaner Blues

9. Just Wait 'Til You Se My Baby Do the Charleston

10. Papa De-Da-Da

11. 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do

12. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues

13. Livin' High (Sometimes)

14. Radio Days: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

15. Radio Days: American Patrol

16. Mean Blues

17. House Rent Blues (The Stomp)

18. Radio Days: Take The 'A' Train

19. Santa Claus Blues

20. Pickin' on Your Baby

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars YOU CAN'T SHUSH CLARENCE, May 16, 2010

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Barry McCanna (Normandy, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: With Louis Armstrong & Sidney (Audio CD)

Clarence Williams began recording with his Blue Five in mid-1923, when it included Tom Morris on cornet and Sidney Bechet on clarinet and soprano sax. Morris was replaced by Louis Armstrong in October 1924, Bechet dropped out after March 1925, and Louis' last session was October 1925. This reissue covers the period during which either or both of these jazz giants was present in the line-up, but perversely fails to follow a chronological thread, and carries a photo of another Clarence Williams line-up altogether. It is also pertinent to mention that Eva Taylor sings on fifteen of the tracks, including the rare waltz number "Cast Away", and that Bechet solos on the esoteric sarrusophone (a sort of bass saxophone) on "Mandy, Make Up Your Mind". The majority of these numbers were recorded in the acoustic era, but such was the excellence of Okeh's recording system and the quality of the playing that this should not deter you from purchasing this early testament to two giants of jazz.