QRS Recordings Volume 1 [Import]

Clarence Williams (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Frog UK
• ASIN: B000060OHR
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,876 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Long, Deep And Wide

2. Speakeasy

3. Squeeze Me

4. New Down Home Blues

5. Hopeless Blues

6. Every Woman Blues

7. Kitchen Woman Blues - A

8. Kitchen Woman Blues - B

9. Lock Step Blues

10. Lock Step BLues - B

11. Shake It, Black Bottom

12. I Don't Care Who Gets What I Don't Want

13. West End Blues

14. St. Louis Blues

15. Lonesome Lovsick Blues

16. Have You Ever Felt That Way?

17. What Can You Do Without Me?

18. Wildflower Rag

19. Wildflower Rag - A

20. Midnight Stomp

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars GEMS FROM A FABULOUSLY RARE LABEL, May 15, 2010

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Barry McCanna (Normandy, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QRS Recordings Volume 1 (Audio CD)

I heard the first four tracks, which feature King Oliver, on a Riverside LP more years ago than I care to remember, and they made an indelible impression on me. It is a joy to hear them again, in digitally remastered form, together with the other 1928 QRS recordings where Clarence Williams accompanied Anna Bell, Katherine Henderson, before reverting to instrumental form for the November session. Four of the titles were issued in alternate takes, and they are all here. As John Capes writes in his liner note, virtually every recording made under his leadership share characteristics that make them identifiable as a Clarence Williams group. He defines that as the ability to obtain a full sound from a small ensemble and to preserve an air of spontaneity with a larger group. I cannot improve on that analysis, which is borne out by every track in this superb compilation.