Boxset / Compilation · 1960
Tracklist
A1 Zack Whyte's Chocolate Beau Brummels – It's Tight Like That
A2 Zack Whyte's Chocolate Beau Brummels – West End Blues
A3 Syd Valentine And His Patent Leather Kids – Rock And Gravel
A4 Syd Valentine And His Patent Leather Kids – Jelly Bean Drag
A5 Horace Smith Accompanied By Syd Valentine And His Patent Leather Kids – Goin' Away And Leavin' My Baby
A6 Ted Smith's Rhythm Aces – Boogie Woogie
A7 Ted Smith's Rhythm Aces – Jig Time
B1 Dixie Serenaders – St. Louis Blues
B2 Dixie Serenaders – Cho-King
B3 Red Perkins & His Dixie Rambler – Hard Time Stomp
B4 Red Perkins & His Dixie Ramblers – Old Man Blues
B5 Alphonso Trent And His Orchestra– After You've Gone
B6 Alphonso Trent And His Orchestra– Clementine
B7 Alphonso Trent And His Orchestra– I've Found A New Baby
Line-up/Musicians
(a) ZACK WHYTE'S CHOCOLATE BEAU BRUMMELS: Proable personnel: Henry Savage, Bubber White, Sy Oliver (tpt); Floyd 'Stumpy' Brady (tbn); Earl Tribble, Clarence Paige (alt); Ben Richardson (alt, clt); Al Sears (ten, bar); Herman Chittison (p); Montgomery Morrison (tu); William Benton (d); Zack Whyte (Idr, probably bj). Recorded at Richmond, Indiana, February 26, 1929
(b) SYD VALENTINE AND HIS PATENT LEATHER KIDS: Syd Valentine (tpt); James 'Slick' Helms (p); Paul George (bj). Recorded at Richmond, Indiana, October 2, 1929
(c) HORACE SMITH (vcl) accompanied by SYD VALENTINE AND HIS PATENT LEATHER KIDS: Same personnel, recording date and location as last
(d) TED SMITH'S RHYTHM ACES: Unknown personnel, probably consisting of 2 tpt; tbn; 3 sax, doubling clt; p; bj/g, tu; d; Jack Tolliver (vcl). Recorded at Richmond,Indiana,August 3f, 1931
(e) DIXIE SERENADERS: Doc Hart, lames Porter (tpt); Leon White (tbn); Leonard Davidson, Sherman Williams (alt/clt); Carlton Wade (ten, clt); Sonny Clay (p); Frank Watkins (bj, vcl); Bert Holliday (tu); David Lewis (d). Recorded in Los Angeles, 1931...nj-,,-!*
(f) RED PERKINS & HIS DIXIE RAMBLERS: Frank 'Red' Perkins (tpt, alt, vcl); A. G. Oglesby (tbn); Jesse Simmons (alt, clt); Joe Drake (ten, clt, tpt, vcl, arr); Howard Fields (p); Charles Watkins (bj); Eugene Freels (tu, tpt, vcl); Harry Rooks (d). Recorded at Richmond, Indiana, May 5 (HARD TIMES STOMP) and 6 (OLD MAN BLUES), 1931
(g) ALPHONSE TRENT AND HIS ORCESTRA: Chester Clark, George Hudson, Herbert 'Peanuts' Holland (tpt); Leo 'Snub' Mosley (tbn, slide sax); Lee Milliard, Hayes Pillars, James Jeter, probably Chester Pillars (sax, clt); Hezekiah Leroy 'Stuff' Smith (vln, vcl); Alphonse Trent (p, Idr); Eugene Crooke (bj); Robert 'Eppie' Jackson (tu); A.G.Godley (d). Recorded at Richmond, Indiana, March 5, 1930
(h) ALPHONSE TRENT AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Lee Hilliard, T-srry El-ston, Herbert 'Peanuts' Holland (tpt); Leo 'Snub' Mosley (tbn, slide sax); Gus Wilson (tbn); James Jeter, Chester Pillars (alt); Hayes Pillars (ten); Anderson Lacy (vln, vcl); Alphonse Trent (p); possibly Leslie Sheffild (g); Louis Pitt (bs); A.G. Godley (d). Recorded at Richmond, Indiana, March 24, 1933
About this release
Classic Jazz Masters CJM 10 (Sweden)
Recorded 1929-1933
Thanks to snobb for the addition