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before 1959
Lonnie Johnson
Swing Out Rhythm 2:36
Blues In G 2:49
from Lonnie Johnson 1925-1947: The First of the 'Guitar Heroes'
Blues guitar simply would not have developed in the manner that it did if not for the prolific brilliance of Lonnie Johnson. He was there to help define the instrument's future within the genre and the genre's future itself at the very beginning, his melodic conception so far advanced from most of his prewar peers as to inhabit a plane all his own. For more than 40 years, Johnson played blues, jazz, and ballads his way; he was a true blues originator whose influence hung heavy on a host of subsequent blues immortals...
Django Reinhardt
Pour commencer feat. Christian Wagner 2:58
Dinette Dinah with Quintette Du Hot Club De France 2:50
Blues clair 3:03
from War Clouds Vol 2 1940 -1944
During the year 2000, more than 30 Django Reinhardt collections were released by more than 20 different companies. One of the more specifically focused entries, EMI's War Clouds, Vol. 2 concentrated upon the guitarist's wartime output. What you hear on this collection is authentic Parisian Gypsy swing, some of it involving big bands rather than the standard "Hot Club" Quintet format, created under what must have been challenging circumstances. Nearly six months into the Nazi occupation of Paris, Django Reinhardt and his companions in swing were openly defying the cultural and racial policies of the Third Reich when "Pour Commencier" was recorded on December 18, 1940...
Xavier Cugat - Brazil [Aquerela do Brazil] (Ary Barroso) 2:42
Arthur "Dooley" Wilson - As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld) 2:26
from Hit Parade 1943
The 1943 volume of this series kicks off in a pop vein with Tommy Dorsey (and Frank Sinatra) on "There Are Such Things," ... And the perennially popular Xavier Cugat and his instrumental rhumba version of "Brazil" is also a reminder of the first cinematic use of that song (long before Terry Gilliam), in The Gang's All Here... and Dooley Wilson ("As Time Goes By," taken right off the film soundtrack)...
Muddy Waters
Country Blues #1 (McKinley Morganfield) 3:27
Ramblin' Kid Blues (McKinley Morganfield) 3:17
Take a Walk With Me (McKinley Morganfield) 3:04
from Down on Stovall's Plantation / Rec: August 24, 1941 - July 24, 1942 (1966)
These Library of Congress field recordings made by Alan Lomax from 1941-1942 feature Muddy with Percy Thomas on guitar, Louis Ford on mandolin, and Henry Sims on violin. Capturing Muddy in a string-band context playing his earliest repertoire, this is a major historical document. Unfortunately, the Universe edition of these recordings omits several interview segments with Muddy and Lomax, which most fans of this music will definitely want, making The Complete Plantation Recordings on MCA/Chess the version to own.
Charlie Christian
I Got Rhythm (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin) 5:58
Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael / Mitchell Parish) 5:41
Oh, Lady Be Good (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin) 10:30
from Radioland 1939-1941 / September 11, 1939 - May, 1941 (2001)
A jazz lover can never have too many Charlie Christian albums. His electric guitar work simply laid the groundwork for the emergence of the guitar as an important jazz voice. As Scott Yanow's liner notes point out, Christian also basically defined the perimeters of jazz guitar until the fusion movement of the late '60s. Radioland works as a grab bag of Christian's scattered, non-Benny Goodman work between 1939-1941. The sheer variety means that sometimes the supporting players are great, sometimes so-so. "Guy's Got to Go" opens with an energetic solo backed by Nick Fenton's bass, Kenny Clarke's drums, and a lively crowd...
To say that Mary Lou Williams had a long and productive career is an understatement. Although for decades she was often called jazz's greatest female musician (and one has to admire what must have been a nonstop battle against sexism), she would have been considered a major artist no matter what her sex.
Tea for Two (Irving Caesar / Vincent Youmans) 2:52
Mary Lou Williams Blues (Mary Lou Williams) 3:20
Baby Dear (Tubby Hayes / Bennie Moten) 2:52
from The Chronological Mary Lou Williams (1927-1940)
Just the fact that Williams and Duke Ellington were virtually the only stride pianists to modernize their style through the years would have been enough to guarantee her a place in jazz history books. Williams managed to always sound modern during a half-century career without forgetting her roots or how to play in the older styles.
Towering entertainer, expert at chanson, racial barrier breaker, beloved in France, her sensuous banana dance is the stuff of legend.
Lonesome Love Sick Blues 2:53
Mon rêve c'était vous 2:34
from Josephine Baker 1927-1939 (Anthology 36 Songs)
Born into poverty in St. Louis, dancer and singer Josephine Baker progressed from vaudeville to New York theater to the Parisian cabaret scene and became the toast of Europe before the age of 21. Though her later career wasn't quite able to handle such an early peak, Baker spent much of her life working tirelessly against prejudice, during World War II in Europe and the civil rights era in America. She's still one of the most famous expatriates in American history, perfectly epitomizing the hedonistic abandon of the Jazz Age in Paris...
Casey Bill Weldon
I Believe You're Cheatin' On Me 3:17
The Big Boat 3:12
Brown Skin Woman 2:50
Round & Round 2:54
from Greatest Blues Licks 1927-1938
Steel guitarist Will Weldon is remembered as Casey Bill Weldon, and was also known in his time as Kansas City Bill and Levee Joe. "Casey", like "KC" or "Kaycee," referred to his links with the Kansas City music scene, although he could just as easily have been named after Pine Bluff, AK where he was born in 1909, or Atlanta or Memphis where he made his first recordings in 1927 after performing in medicine shows throughout the south. Inspired directly by the great Peetie Wheatstraw, Weldon was equally adept at expressing himself as a passionate blues singer and as a honky-tonk "country" performer who contributed to the development of Western swing. He was sometimes billed as the Hawaiian Guitar Wizard...
Shepherd Of The Hills 3:06
I Can't Give You Anything But Love 2:38
Rhapsody In Blue 9:25
from The Bert Firman Collection 1924-1937
Born Herbert Feuerman in London, England on February 3r,1906, young Bert wanted to become a doctor but was expected to study music because everyone in his immediate family, as well as cousins and uncles, were musicians. After early training on violin, he was granted a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music. At the age of 13 he played in a quintet providing incidental music at the Playhouse Theatre, and at 14 was a member of the orchestra at the Victoria Hotel. Bert's brother John (at that time pianist with the Savoy Havana Band) set him up with an audition which resulted in Bert being cast as Sascha, a gypsy violinist in Sally, a musical scored by Jerome Kern. This production opened September 10, 1921 and ran for a total of 383 performances. Finding himself in the limelight and asked if he could come up with a name containing fewer letters, Bert changed his last name, first to Fireman, then Firman...
Lafina (kleftiko) [The Doe] (1927) 3:20
Svarniara (syrto) [1928]
Gainta Karagouna (syrto) (1936) by Giorgos Mihalopoulos
from The Art of the Greek Folk Clarinet - 78 rpm Recordings 1927-1936
Greek Folk Instruments: Chordophones, Aerophones, and Membranophones
Klarino is what the Greeks call the Greek clarinet, and it is the most popular lead melody instrument in the mainland regions of Greece. It is an Albert (or simple) system clarinet which is an older, more primitive version of the clarinet now common in classical and popular music in most of Europe and America. The Albert system klarino has fewer keys and has a different tone than the modern clarinet. The Greek "klaritzides" also play the klarino with a different style and sound than that used by classical musicians in Europe and America. The klarino in the key of "C" ("do") is a favorite of the old folk klaritzides (clarinet players), although the Albert Bb has become the most popular clarinet in recent years. They also use the A and G clarinets, which are lower pitched instruments, for some music.
Paul Robeson - Canoe Song 2:57
Louis Armstrong - I’m In The Mood For Love 3:11
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - Rhythm Is Our Business 3:13
from The Million Sellers Of The 30's - 1935
1935 in Music
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