This Day in Jazz

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This Day in Jazz - January 17

Recorded on January 17th:

1936: Willie Lewis — Star Dust [Paris]

1938: Bud Freeman Trio — You Took Advantage of Me

1938: Eddie Condon Windy City 7 — Beat to the Socks

1938: Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang v Louis Prima — Now They Call It Swing

1939: Artie Shaw — Lover Come Back to Me
1939: Artie Shaw and His New Music v Tony Pastor — Rosalie
1939: Artie Shaw and His Orchestra v Helen Forrest — Supper Time

1940: Bea Wain — I'm Nobody's Baby

1940: Will Bradley — Celery Stalks at Midnight
1940: Will Bradley — Jimtown Blues

1941: Glenn Miller v Ray Eberle and The Modernaires — You Stepped Out of a Dream [NY]
1941: Glenn Miller v Tex Beneke — Ida (Sweet as Apple Cider)

1942: Benny Goodman v Dick Haymes — Take Me

1945: Boyd Raeburn — I'll Always Be in Love with You

1950: Jimmy Dorsey Original Dorseyland Jazz Band v Claire Hogan — Rag Mop

 

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She was also big with Artie Shaw.

Of all the Helens with the big bands, I like Helen Forrest's singing with Artie Shaw the most.

There were a bunch of Helens with the big bands -- Helen Forrest, Helen Humes, Helen O'Connell, Helen Ward, and some others -- but Helen Forrest is my favorite. I don't have the text handy, but the story of her joining Artie Shaw's band is that she told him something like "One condition. I get to sing entire songs, not just a single verse," and Artie Shaw's response was "You got it." I think that's cool, and Shaw's agreement led to her singing some great songs.

For those who don't understand what Helen Forrest wanted, up to then it was common for a singer to sing just one verse, oftentimes the third verse out of four, with just the instruments playing for all of the other verses.

 

[BillyBatts]

Rege and Fips:

"1938: Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang v Louis Prima — Now They Call It Swing"

I've got a bunch of Louis Prima from my Dad's 45 collection. I just pawed through every one of the Louis Prima but don't have this.

I'll have to see about getting a copy. I happen to like Prima.

 

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Rege and Fips:

"1938: Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang v Louis Prima — Now They Call It Swing"

I've got a bunch of Louis Prima from my Dad's 45 collection. I just pawed through every one of the Louis Prima but don't have this.

I'll have to see about getting a copy. I happen to like Prima.

And Sam Butera!

 

[BillyBatts]

This day in Jazz - January 18

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Don Thompson born 1940 in Powell River, British Columbia.

Trumpeter Clifford Brown records "With Strings", 1955.

Saxophonist Steve Grossman born 1951 in New York, NY.

 

[BillyBatts]

And Sam Butera!

ABSOLUTELY! :thmbsp:

And maybe even Keely Smith!

I also found some of my Dad's "Louis Jordan" 45's.

The first time I heard Louis Jordan do "Saturday Night Fish Fry" I didn't know weather to dance along, laugh, or just sit there with my jaw dropped.
WHAT a HOOT!

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 18

Recorded on January 18th:

1936: Hal Kemp v Skinny Ennis — I Can't Get Started

1936: Louis Armstrong v Louis Armstrong — The Music Goes 'Round and Around

1937: Kay Kyser v Bill Stoker and Ginny Simms — Who?

1938: Lionel Hampton — Fiddle Diddle [NY]
1938: Lionell Hampton v Lionel Hampton — Ring Dem Bells

1939: Jess Stacy — Ain't Goin' Nowhere [NY]
1939: Jess Stacy — Candlelights [NY]

1939: Louis Armstrong v Louis Armstrong — Jeepers Creepers
1939: Louis Armstrong v Louis Armstrong — What is This Thing Called Swing?

1940: Josephine Bradley — It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

1940: Tony Pastor v Tony Pastor — Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)

1942: Bing Crosby — I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes

1942: Woody Herman's Woodchoppers v Bing Crosby and Woody Herman — I Want Mama [LA]

1944: Dick Haymes and The Song Spinners — If You Were the Only Girl in the World

1945: Harry James v Kitty Kallen — I Don't Care Who Knows It [Hwd]

1946: Claude Thornhill — Rustle of Spring

1952: Jo Stafford — September in the Rain

1952: Sidney Bechet — Si Tu Vois Ma Mère

 

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Bobby Broom: Guitarist from New York 1961.

Bobby Broom Trio plays Thelonius Monk"s "Ask Me Now"

http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=iulz25ZaCAY

 

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This day in Jazz - January 19

Singer Heather Bambrick born in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Jack Teagarden records the music of Willard Robison with Bob Brookmeyer’s band, 1962

Bassist Israel Crosby born 1919 in Chicago, IL.

Pianist Horace Parlan born 1931 in Pittsburgh, PA.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 19

Recorded on January 19th:

1933: Hal Kemp v Skinny Ennis — Happy Times

1937: Mildred Bailey and Her Orchestra — You're Laughing at Me [Chicago]

1937: Tommy Dorsey — Who'll Buy My Violets?[NY]
1937: Tommy Dorsey v Edythe Wright — How Could You [NY]

1939: Fats Waller and His Rhythm — Kiss Me with Your Eyes [NY]
1939: Fats Waller and His Rhythm v Fats Waller — Hold Tight [NY]

1939: John Kirby and His Onyx Club Boys — Sweet Georgia Brown [NY]

1939: Tommy Dorsey — Milenberg Joys Parts One and Two [NY]
1939: Tommy Dorsey v Jack Leonard — This is It [NY]

1942: Hal McIntyre v Carl Denny — Fooled
1942: Hal McIntyre v Carl Denny — I'll Never Forget
1942: Hal McIntyre v Carl Denny — Tangerine

1945: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five v Louis Jordan — Caldonia Boogie [NY]

1948: Claude Thornhill — Humoresque

 

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This day in Jazz - January 20

Drummer Jimmy Cobb born 1929 in Washington, DC.

Miles Davis Quintet (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) records "E.S.P.", 1965

Drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts born 1960 in Pittsburgh, PA.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 20

Recorded on January 20th:

1930: Louisiana Rhythm Kings — Squeeze Me

1939: Charlie Barnet — Knockin' at the Famous Door
1939: Charlie Barnet — Tin Roof Blues [NY]

1939: Larry Clinton v Bea Wain — (I'm Afraid) the Masquerade is Over

1939: Sammy Kaye v Jimmy Brown — Penny Serenade [NY]

1941: Tommy Dorsey v Frank Sinatra — Without a Song

1942: Artie Shaw v Fredda Gibson (Georgia Gibbs) — Absent Minded Moon [NY]
1942: Artie Shaw v Fredda Gibson (Georgia Gibbs) — Somebody Nobody Loves [NY]
1942: Artie Shaw v Fredda Gibson (Georgia Gibbs) — Not Mine [NY]

1942: Kay Kyser v Harry Babbitt and Trudy Erwin — Who Wouldn't Love You?

1949: Larry Clinton — Study in Brown

1949: Russ Morgan — You, You, You Are the One
1949: Russ Morgan v The Skylarks — Crusin' Down the River

 

[BillyBatts]

This day in Jazz - January 21

Canadian Bassist Jim Vivian born 1961.

The Count Basie band makes its first recording, "Honeysuckle Rose", in 1937.

Violinist and Reedman Robert "Juice" Wilson born 1904 in St.Louis, MO.

The Miles Davis Nonet group, later known as The Birth of the Cool band, records "Jeru", 1949.

 

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Jason Moran 1975

Noted jazz pianist and composer.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 21

Recorded on January 21st:

1931: Mills Music Masters v Charlie Lawman — They Satisfy

1935: Charlie Barnet Glen Island Casino Orchestra v Marion Nichols — Fare Thee Well Annabelle

1937: Count Basie — Honeysuckle Rose
1937: Count Basie — Roseland Shuffle
1937: Count Basie — Swingin' at the Daisy Chain
1937: Count Basie v Jimmy Rushing — Pennies from Heaven

1938: Red Norvo v Mildred Bailey — I Was Doin' Alright [NY]

1939: Kay Kyser v Harry Babbitt — (Gotta Get Some) Shut Eye

1941: Benny Carter — Cuddle Up, Huddle Up

1941: Will Bradley and Ray McKinley Orchestra v Ray McKinley — Boogie Woogie Conga

1942: Artie Shaw — Two in One Blues
1942: Artie Shaw and His New Music — Carnival

1942: Count Basie v Jimmy Rushing — For the Good of the Country

1942: Duke Ellington — C Jam Blues [Chicago]

1942: Eddie Condon v Brad Gowans — At the Jazz Band Ball

1944: Capt Glenn Miller and The AAFTC Orchestra — Embraceable You [NY]

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 22

Recorded on January 22nd:

1930: Roger Wolfe Kahn — Cooking Breakfast for One

1931: Clyde McCoy — Sugar Blues

1934: Cab Calloway — Moonglow

1937: Bunny Berigan and His Boys — Blue Lou [NY]
1937: Bunny Berigan and His Boys v Art Gentry — One in a Million [NY]
1937: Bunny Berigan and His Boys v Art Gentry — The Gonna Goo [NY]
1937: Bunny Berigan and His Boys v Art Gentry — Who's Afraid of Love [NY]

1941: Count Basie — Wiggle Woogie [NY]
1941: Count Basie v Helen Humes — You Lied to Me [Liederkrenz Hall, NY]

1941: Erskine Hawkins — No Use Squawkin' [NY]

1941: Will Bradley and Ray McKinley Orchestra v Ray McKinley — Bugles in the Sky

1941: Woody Herman v Muriel Lane — Bounce Me Brother, with a Solid Four [NY]
1941: Woody Herman v Woody Herman — Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy [NY]
1941: Woody Herman v Woody Herman — Oh, Look at Me Now [NY]

1944: Barney Bigard — Step Steps Up
1944: Barney Bigard — Tea for Two
1944: Barney Bigard Trio — Moon Glow

1944: Count Basie — Wiggle Woogie

1945: Gene Krupa — Leave Us Leap

1952: Harry James — Roll 'Em

 

[BillyBatts]

This day in Jazz - January 22

Trombonist/composer J.J. Johnson born 1924 in Indianapolis, IN.

Trumpeter Kevin Turcotte born 1964 in Ottawa, Ontario.

Vocalist Billie Holiday records "Good Morning Heartache", 1946.

 

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The Birthday of JJ Johnson: An outstanding jazz trombonist.

He had a very fruitful partnership with another trombonist Kai Winding.

 

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This Day in Jazz - January 23

Recorded on January 23rd:

1925: Henry Halstead — On the Way to Monterey

1928: Benny Goodman and His Boys — A Jazz Holiday
1928: Benny Goodman and His Boys — Wolverine Blues

1935: Reginald Foresythe and His Music — Dodgin' a Divorcee

1937: Henry Hall v George Elrick — One, Two, Button Your Shoe

1937: Roy Eldridge — Florida Stomp

1939: Artie Shaw — The Man I Love [NY]

1939: Bob Crosby — Eye Opener
1939: Bob Crosby — Skater's Waltz (In Swingtime)

1940: Dick Jurgens v Ronnie Kemper — Cecilia [Chicago]

1940: Hot Lips Page and His Band — Walk It to Me [NY]
1940: Hot Lips Page v Hot Lips Page — I Would Do Anything for You [NY]

1941: Artie Shaw — Dancing in the Dark

1941: Charlie Barnet — Little John Ordinary

1942: Gene Krupa v Johnny Desmond — The Cassions Go Rolling Along [NY]

1946: Louis Jordan — Chooo Chooo Ch Boogie

 

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Vibraphonist Gary Burton Birthday.

A favorite of our respected AKER PMSummmer.

Gary has a book out: autobiography.