VA - Paramount Jazz (4 CD Box-Set) (2009)

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Artist: VA
Title: Paramount Jazz
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: JSP JSP960
Genre: Jazz, Big Band, Retro
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 04:52:42
Total Size: 551 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Working in collaboration with archivist Joe Bussard, the amazing JSP label has made large quantities of vintage music available in beautifully remastered and surprisingly affordable four-CD sets. Breaking Out of New Orleans documents the early northern migration of Crescent City jazz bands, while Gennett Jazz and Paramount Jazz each sample the thriving Chicago music scene during the '20s. Paramount Jazz forages even wider and deeper than the Gennett set, covering the years 1921-1929 with 100 titles credited to a profoundly diverse procession of singers and instrumentalists. For every familiar name like Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and Ida Cox, there are dozens more who are well-worth investigating, regardless of how little or how much you think you know about this kind of music. For those who are so inclined, this reservoir of historic recordings may serve as a seed bed for individualized musicological research. Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders, for example, was both the house band for Paramount Records and an important showcase for the talents of cornetist Tommy Ladnier and clarinetist Jimmy O'Bryant. Multi-instrumentalist Boyd Senter is often branded with the word "obscure", (a term that could be taken to mean "out of sight") but his presence in several early Jelly Roll Morton ensembles seems to bring him ever so slightly forward out of the shadows. As for the Wisconsin U Skyrockets, Charlie Straight's Orchestra, the Midway Garden Orchestra and Devine's Wisconsin Roof Orchestra, these charming dance bands work nicely as stylistic counterweights in the same package as Jeanette's Synco Jazzers, Vance Dixon's Jazz Maniacs, Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools, Jasper Taylor & His State Street Boys, Preston Jackson & His Uptown Band, and Jimmy Blythe's Washboard Ragamuffins. Note that JSP has also released Paramount Masters, a survey of classic early blues, and Paramount Old Time Recordings, a tour of early white rural and hillbilly music. Each compilation in the JSP catalog is intended as both an introduction to and a celebration of the musicians and their music. None of these sets are exclusively designed or narrowly recommended for specialists and connoisseurs. The Gennett Jazz anthology's copious explanatory notes, the inclusion of well-known classic jazz recordings that most experienced early jazz lovers are sure to already own, and the absence of alternate takes are clearly in line with JSP's mission to make historic recordings accessible to anyone who wants to dive in and experience music played and heard so very long ago. The fact that the Paramount Jazz box is richly stocked with a higher percentage of rare material makes it all the more exciting and entertaining for experts and newcomers alike.

Tracklist:

CD1 (01:13:16)
1 King Oliver's Jazz Band - Mabel's Dream
2 King Oliver's Jazz Band - Riverside Blues
3 Charlie Straight & His Orchestra - Buddy's Habits
4 Charlie Straight & His Orchestra - Henpecked Blues
5 Windy Rhythm Kings - Piggly Wiggly Blues
6 Windy Rhythm Kings - South African Blues
7 Jelly Roll Morton's Steamboat Four - Mr. Jelly Lord
8 Jelly Roll Morton's Stomp Kings - Steady Roll
9 Lovie Austin & Her Blues Serenaders - Steppin' On The Blues
10 Lovie Austin & Her Blues Serenaders - Traveling Blues
11 Lovie Austin & Her Blues Serenaders - Charleston, South Carolina
12 Lovie Austin & Her Blues Serenaders - Heebie Jeebies
13 Lovie Austin & Her Blues Serenaders - Peepin' Blues
14 Lovie Austin & Her Serenaders - Chicago Mess Around
15 Lovie Austin & Her Serenaders - Galion Stomp
16 Lovie Austin & Her Serenaders - Rampart Street Blues
17 Ida Cox - Kentucky Man Blues
18 Ida Cox - Death Letter Blues
19 Ida Cox - Don't Blame Me
20 Ida Cox - Scottle Me
21 Viola Bartlette - Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night
22 Viola Bartlette - Tennessee Blues
23 Wisconsin U Skyrockets - Dizzy Corners
24 Wisconsin U Skyrockets - Postage Stamp
25 Boyd Senter - Fat Mama Blue

CD2 (01:13:01)
1 Clarence Williams & His Orchestra - Shake 'Em Up
2 Clarence Williams & His Orchestra - Jingles
3 Clarence Williams & His Orchestra - New Down Home Rag
4 Clarence Williams & His Orchestra - Squeeze Me
5 Barrel House Five Orchestra - Hot Lovin'
6 Barrel House Five Orchestra - Mama Stayed Out
7 Edna Taylor - Good Man Blues
8 Edna Taylor - Jelly's Blues
9 Sara Martin - Death Sting Me Blues
10 Sara Martin - Mistreating Man Blues
11 Lucille Hegamin - High Brown Blues
12 Lucille Hegamin - State Street Blues
13 Jeannette's Synco Jazzers - The Bumps
14 Jeannette's Synco Jazzers - What's That Thing
15 Midway Garden Orchestra - Lot's O' Mama
16 Midway Garden Orchestra - Sobbin' Blues
17 Bill Haid & His Cubs - A Good Man Is Hard To Find
18 Bill Haid & His Cubs - Doin' The Racoon
19 Charles Pierce & His Orchestra - Jazz Me Blues
20 Charles Pierce & His Orchestra - Sister Kate
21 Alberta Hunter - Don't Pan Me
22 Ida Cox - Fogyism
23 Devine's Wisconsin Roof Orchestra - New St. Louis Blues
24 Devine's Wisconsin Roof Orchestra - Tiger Rag
25 Bertha Henderson - Let Your Love Come Down

CD3 (01:15:31)
1 Bertha Henderson - Black Bordered Letter
2 Bertha Henderson - Six Thirty Blues
3 Nelson's Paramount Serenaders - Phillips Street Stomp
4 Nelson's Paramount Serenaders - Nelson Blues
5 D C Nelson's Paramount Serenaders - New Orleans Breakdown
6 D C Nelson's Paramount Serenaders - Coo Coo Stomp
7 Hannah Sylvester - The Wicked (Dirty) Fives
8 Ethel Waters - Brown Baby
9 Ethel Waters - Ain't Gonna Marry
10 Louisiana Stompers - Hop Off
11 Louisiana Stompers - Rough House Blues
12 Trixie Smith - Log Cabin Blues
13 Trixie Smith - Voodoo Blues
14 Trixie Smith - The World's Jazz Crazy And So Am I
15 Trixie Smith - Railroad Blues
16 Original Memphis Five - Back O' Town Blues
17 Original Memphis Five - St. Louis Gal
18 Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Off To Buffalo
19 Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra - Swamp Blues
20 Madlyn Davis & Her Hot Shots - Kokola Blues
21 Madlyn Davis & Her Hot Shots - Winter Blues
22 Richard Jones & His Jazz Wizards - Hot And Ready
23 Richard Jones & His Jazz Wizards - Its A Low Down Thing
24 Harlem Harmony Kings - Hard Time Blues
25 Harlem Harmony Kings - John Henry Blues

CD4 (01:10:54)
1 Blythe's Washboard Ragamuffins - Ape Man
2 Blythe's Washboard Ragamuffins - Your Folks
3 Blythe's Sinful Five - Pump Tillie
4 Jimmy Blythe - Lovin' Been Here And Gone To The Mecca
5 Jimmy Blythe - Mr.Freddie's Blues
6 Elzadie Robinson - Elzadie's Policy Blues
7 Elzadie Robinson - Pay Day Daddy Blues
8 The Dixie Four - Kentucky Stomp
9 The Dixie Four - St.Louis Man
10 Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Midnight Strutters
11 Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Three J Blues
12 Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Stepppin' On The Gas
13 Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Clarinet Getaway
14 Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Back Alley Rub
15 Jimmy O'Bryant's Washboard Band - Shake That Thing
16 Jasper Taylor & His State Street Boys - It Must Be the Blues
17 Jasper Taylor & His State Street Boys - Stomp Time Blues
18 Dixon's Jazz Maniacs - Crazy Quilt
19 Dixon's Jazz Maniacs - My Man Just Won't Don't
20 Preston Jackson & His Uptown Band - Harmony Blues
21 Preston Jackson & His Uptown Band - It's Tight Jim
22 Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools - Day Break Blues
23 Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools - Fade Away Blues
24 Jelly Roll Morton - Thirty Fifth Street Blues
25 King Oliver's Jazz Band - The Southern Stomps

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