"Contrast in Black and White" August 3, 2007

(Week 87)

I couldn't upload this playlist before the broadcast owing to electrical storms (which play havoc with our DSL connection). I featured selections recorded by both black and white artists, some using the same arrangements, showing the influence--and the genuine respect--going both ways. It was a good show--and it's up on Live365 for the next few weeks.

Jelly Roll Morton Trio – Wolverine Blues (1927) – JSP CD 321
Benny Goodman’s Boys – Wolverine Blues (1928) – Classics 693
Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orch. – Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up (1929) – JSP 926B
Europe’s Society Orchestra – Castle House Rag (1914) – Archeophone 1003
Lloyd Finlay and his Orch. – Mysterious Blues (Castle House Rag) (1925) – Timeless CBC 1-033
The Red Heads – Brown Sugar (1926) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8043
Doc Cook’s Dreamland Orch. – Brown Sugar (1926) – Disky DO 999872
Fletcher Henderson and his Orch. – Whiteman Stomp (1927) – C3K 57596
Paul Whiteman and his Orch. – Whiteman Stomp (1927) – Naxos 8.120628
Ethel Waters – Am I Blue? (1929) – Classics 688
Annette Hanshaw – Am I Blue? (1929) – Take Two TT408CD
Ben Pollack and his Orch. – If I Could Be With You (1930) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8026
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers – If I Could Be With You (1930) – Jazz Archives No. 26
Cornell Smelser and his Orch. – Accordion Joe (1930) – Proper P 1553
The Jungle Band – Accordion Joe (1930) – Proper P 1553
Duke Ellington and his Orch. – Mood Indigo (1930) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 482
Clyde McCoy and his Orch. – Mood Indigo (1931) – Collectors’ Choice – CCM-155-2
Frank Trumbauer and his Orch. – Singin’ the Blues (1927) – Columbia CK 45450
Fletcher Henderson and his Orch. – Singin’ the Blues (1931) – Sunbeam BX CD 13
Louis Armstrong and his Orch. – Confessin’ (1930) – JSP CD 3401
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians – I’m Confessin’ (1930) – Collectors’ Choice CCM-299-2
Roane’s Pennsylvanians – Sleep, Come On and Take Me (1932) – The Old Masters mb125
Joseph Robichaux and his N.O. Rhythm Boys – Sleep, Come On and Take Me (1933) – DOCD-1016
Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang – St. James Infirmary (1930) – Sensation 769 748 025-2
Harlem Hot Chocolates – St. James Infirmary (1930) – Archeophone 3002
Casa Loma Orch. – Casa Loma Stomp (1930) – Hep CD 1010
Fletcher Henderson and his Orch. – Casa Loma Stomp (1932) – Columbia CK 54143
Don Redman and his Orch. – How’m I Doin? (1932) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5110
Waring’s Pennsylvanians – How’m I Doin? (1932) – Viper’s Nest VN-179
Isham Jones and his Orch. – Blue Room (1934) – Hep CD1083
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch. – Blue Room (1932) – Classics 591
Isham Jones and his Orch. – Sweet Sue-Just You (1934) – Hep CD1083