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I'll Lock Up
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- Gopher Prairie, MI
Charles Remue and his New Stompers, a fine Belgian orchestra which waxes about fifteen sides in 1927. They had a pleasant swinging lilt to their dance numbers, which must have been quite popular with dancers. Their unusual arrangement of the traditional children's lay "The Bridge at Avingnon" is particularly nice, as are their own "Vladivostok" and "Slow Gee-Gee", their versions of the standards "Doctor Jazz", "Tempeokee", and their arrangement of Boyd Senter's "Slippery Elm".
Boyd Senter is another obscure artist who's work is, perhaps unappreciated. His most famous sides consist of unmusical "gas-pipe" clarinet clowing, but late on he mad a fair number of really excellent jazz discs with his "Senterpedes", a very good, hard-swinging band, which included the Dorseys, a super rhythm section consisting of Eddie Lang on guitar, Vic Berton, drums, and Frank Signoreli, piano, and a superb, though lamentably unknown trumpeter Mickey Bloom.
Thomas Morris' various groups also dwell in unjust obscurity. His 1923 OkeH recordings under the "Thomas Morris and His Past Jazz Masters are pretty uniformly good, with "Lonesome Journey Blues", "Original Charleston Strut" and "Those Blues" being particular stand-outs. Note that on these sides Bubber Miley plays SECOND cornet! Morris' "Seven Hot Babies" sides are also very good. They include my favorite recording of the "Jackass Blues". Their "Georgia Grind" is also excellent as is "Ham Gravy"
The Blue Ribbon Syncopators are another little-known group whose music is worth seeking out. Try their "Blue Ribbon Blues" or "Whale Dip" on your machine! "Blue Ribbon Blues" is particularly interesting, in that it is a very early (April 29, 1925) example of a white band that could actually do a quite creditable job of playing the Blues.
First, last, and always, though, by favorite obscure band would be Gowan's Rhapsody Makers, on the strength of their manic rendering (to be rendered, as in to be torn apart) of "I'll Fly to Hawaii".
Boyd Senter is another obscure artist who's work is, perhaps unappreciated. His most famous sides consist of unmusical "gas-pipe" clarinet clowing, but late on he mad a fair number of really excellent jazz discs with his "Senterpedes", a very good, hard-swinging band, which included the Dorseys, a super rhythm section consisting of Eddie Lang on guitar, Vic Berton, drums, and Frank Signoreli, piano, and a superb, though lamentably unknown trumpeter Mickey Bloom.
Thomas Morris' various groups also dwell in unjust obscurity. His 1923 OkeH recordings under the "Thomas Morris and His Past Jazz Masters are pretty uniformly good, with "Lonesome Journey Blues", "Original Charleston Strut" and "Those Blues" being particular stand-outs. Note that on these sides Bubber Miley plays SECOND cornet! Morris' "Seven Hot Babies" sides are also very good. They include my favorite recording of the "Jackass Blues". Their "Georgia Grind" is also excellent as is "Ham Gravy"
The Blue Ribbon Syncopators are another little-known group whose music is worth seeking out. Try their "Blue Ribbon Blues" or "Whale Dip" on your machine! "Blue Ribbon Blues" is particularly interesting, in that it is a very early (April 29, 1925) example of a white band that could actually do a quite creditable job of playing the Blues.
First, last, and always, though, by favorite obscure band would be Gowan's Rhapsody Makers, on the strength of their manic rendering (to be rendered, as in to be torn apart) of "I'll Fly to Hawaii".
