Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks - Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks 1926-1930 (2006)

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Artist: Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks
Title: Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks 1926-1930
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Retrieval [RTR 79048]
Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 69:29
Total Size: 212 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1. Charleston Ball
2. Say Mister! Have You Met Rosie's Sister
3. Sittin' Around
4. Lo-do-de-o
5. Cock-a-doodle, I'm Off My Noodle, My Baby's Back
6. I Wonder How I Look When I'm Asleep
7. Just the Same
8. There's a Trick in Pickin' A Chick-Chick-Chicken
9. Positively-Absolutely
10. She's Got ''It''
11. Gonna Get a Girl
12. I'm Gonna Dance Wit De Guy Wot Brung Me
13. Fair Co-ed
14. Hey! Hey! Hazel
15. Etiquette Blues
16. When Sweet Susie Goes Steppin' By
17. Nagasaki
18. The Prune Song
19. I Never Kissed a Baby Like You
20. She's Got Great Ideas
21. Oh! Baby, What a Night
22. Piccolo Pete
23. He's a Big Man From the South
24. Twenty Swedes Ran Through the Weeds

Harry Reser was a truly brilliant banjoist who in the 1920s recorded a series of virtuosic works that would amaze today's guitarists. However much of his work during the decade was with bands that combined together novelty comedy and hot jazz, with his banjo used for brief breaks and for keeping the rhythm section moving. His radio band, the Cliquot Club Eskimos, was a fixture for a decade. A smaller group that was partly drawn from that band, the Six Jumping Jacks, recorded regularly during the second half of the '20s and contains the essence of the Eskimos. Twenty-four of the Six Jumping Jacks' better recordings are on this definitive CD. While there are plenty of hot jazz moments, particularly from trumpeter Earl Oliver and clarinetist-altoist Larry Abbott, and drummer Tom Stacks' many vocals are full of pep and constant joy, the "comedy" can be a little tiring in spots, particularly when Oliver blows into his trumpet mouthpiece (sans trumpet) to get odd sounds. But such numbers as "Say Mister? Have You Met Rosie's Sister," "I Wonder How I Look When I'm Asleep," "There's a Trick in Pickin' a Chick-Chick-Chicken," "She's Got Great Ideas," and the bizarre "Etiquette Blues" definitely have their funny and even charming moments. 1920s collectors with a sense of humor and a high tolerance level will find this CD to be of strong interest.~Scott Yanow

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