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Lucille Hegamin

26-01-2020 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Lucille Hegamin, Sidney Bechet, The Georgia Melodians. Banda Municipal, Felix Camarano, Quinteto Augusto, Louis Armstrong, The California Ramblers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Missississippi Sheiks, Andy Kirk, Pepe Pinto, Charlie Lincoln, Gitfiddle Jim, Fred McMullen, Sexteto Habanero<<

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before 1959

A classic blues singer from the 1920's, Lucille Hegamin survived long enough to be recorded again in the 1960's. She sang in a church choir and locally before touring at age 15 with the Leonard Harper Revue.
Lucille Hegamin
The Jazz Me Blues 2:36
High Brown Blues 2:48
from Jazz Figures / Lucille Hegamin, (1920 - 1922), Volume 1
She was married to pianist Bill Hegamin from 1914-23. After performing in Seattle for a long period, Hegamin became one of the first blues singers to record... She toured with her Blue Flame Syncopators and later on led the Dixie Daisies. In addition to performing at clubs, Hegamin appeared in several Broadway shows in the 1920's...

A major figure in early jazz, outstanding clarinettist, only soprano saxophonist of consequence for decades, made melodically rich and emotional music.
Sidney Bechet
Wild Cat Blues 3:01
Blind Man Blues 3:11
Achin' Hearted Blues 2:58
from In Chronology - 1923
Sidney Bechet was the first important jazz soloist on records in history (beating Louis Armstrong by a few months). A brilliant soprano saxophonist and clarinetist with a wide vibrato that listeners either loved or hated, Bechet's style did not evolve much through the years but he never lost his enthusiasm or creativity. A master at both individual and collective improvisation within the genre of New Orleans jazz, Bechet was such a dominant player that trumpeters found it very difficult to play with him. Bechet wanted to play lead and it was up to the other horns to stay out of his way.

By the mid-'20s, the Edison phonograph record company had long since abandoned its founder's curmudgeonly policy regarding jazzy entertainment, and the label's catalog was peppered with titles by Mal Hallett, Joe Herlihy, B.A. Rolfe, Frank Winegar, the Piccadilly Players, Oreste & His Queensland Orchestra, and the Georgia Melodians, a sturdy little Southern unit that left about 27 titles for posterity.
The Georgia Melodians
Wop Blues 4:02
Savannah (The Georgianna Blues) 3:40
Red Hot Mamma 3:47
from Wop Blues (The Complete Edison Recordings - New York 1924)
During its three-year existence, the band's lineup included trumpeter Mickey Bloom; cornetist Red Nichols; trombonists George Troupe, Herb Winfield, Charlie Butterfield, Al Philburn, and Abe Lincoln; an unidentified tuba handler; banjoist Elmer "Merry" Morris; pianist Oscar Young (who in 1911 had come to New York from Ohio with vaudevillian Ted Lewis); and drummer Carl Gerrold. Though really led by Hutchins and Intelhouse, the band operated under the nominal leadership of violinist Charles Boulanger...

Banda Municipal - La budinera 2:51
Felix Camarano - Germaine 3:02
Quinteto Augusto - Un petit programa 3:20
from The History of Tango - Anthology of Vintage Recordings (1908 - 1925), Volume 2
Argentine tango
Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires [1] and Montevideo. It typically has a 2
4 or 4 4 rhythmic time signature, and two or three parts repeating in patterns such as ABAB or ABCAC. Its lyrics are marked by nostalgia, sadness, and laments for lost love.

The most important and influential musician in jazz history, and one of the leading singers and entertainers from the 1920s through the '50s.
Louis Armstrong 
My Heart (Lil Armstrong) 2:32
Gut Bucket Blues (Louis Armstrong) 3:05
You're Next (Louis Armstrong) 3:41
from The Legend 1925-1926
...cornetist Louis Armstrong's first recordings as leader of his own band, beginning in November of 1925 and covering almost exactly one year of vigorously creative activity as the OKeh record label's hottest act. In addition to Lil Hardin's skills as composer, pianist, arranger, and professional advisor, Armstrong was fortunate to have in his little group rock-solid trombonist Kid Ory and clarinetist Johnny Dodds...  Also included are four Vocalion sides from May of 1926 by the Hot Five -- billed as Lil's Hot Shots -- and two featuring Armstrong with Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra. Tate's high-stepping group only managed to record four titles, two in 1923 with Freddie Keppard and the two sizzling stomps issued here. With master percussionist Jimmy Bertrand hitting the cymbals with all his might, the two frantic Tate sides contrast wonderfully with the more compact, intimate sound of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five.

The California Ramblers were one of the very first big bands on record to aim for dance music with strong jazz overtones. Although Paul Whiteman and Jean Goldkette (both of whom employed Bix Beiderbecke at various junctures) were mining this turf around the same period, their recordings sound almost quaint in comparison to the Ramblers...
The California Ramblers
Up and at 'Em 3:58
All Alone Monday (feat. Arthur Fields)
from Stockholm Stomp (Recordings 1926 - 1927)

One of the earliest and most influential rural blues singers to record. Country blues guitarist and vocalist Blind Lemon Jefferson is indisputably one of the main figures in country blues. He was of the highest in many regards, being one of the founders of Texas blues (along with Texas Alexander), one of the most influential country bluesmen of all time, one of the most popular bluesmen of the 1920s, and the first truly commercially successful male blues performer...
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon's Penitentiary Blues 2:45
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 2:50
from Blind Lemon Jefferson Vol. 3 1928

Influential big band of the 1920s and early '30s led at various points by Don Redman and Benny Carter and featuring numerous jazz legends. William McKinney was a drummer who by 1923 had retired from playing in favor of conducting and managing a big band. In 1926 his outfit became known as McKinney's Cotton Pickers, and the following year they scored a major coup by hiring arranger/altoist/vocalist Don Redman away from Fletcher Henderson. As the band's musical director, Redman put together an outfit that competed successfully with Henderson and the up-and-coming Duke Ellington...
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Plain Dirt 2:40
Cherry 2:25
from Jazz Figures / McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1928-1929)

The Mississippi Sheiks were a versatile Depression-era string band whose biggest song was "Sitting on Top of the World," later covered by the Grateful Dead, Howlin' Wolf, and Frank Sinatra.
Missississippi Sheiks
Driving That Thing 3:19
Stop and Listen Blues 3:29
Sitting on Top of the World (Lonnie Chatmon / Walter Vinson) 3:01
from Missississippi Sheiks, Vol 1 (1929-1930)
The Mississippi Sheiks were one of the most popular string bands of the late '20s and early '30s. Formed in Jackson around 1926, the band blended country and blues fiddle music -- both old-fashioned and risqué -- and included guitarist Walter Vinson and fiddler Lonnie Chatmon, with frequent appearances by guitarists Bo Carter and Sam Chatmon, who were also busy with their own solo careers. The musicians were the sons of Ezell Chatmon, uncle of Charlie Patton and leader of an area string band that was popular around the turn of the century. The Mississippi Sheiks (who took their name from the Rudolph Valentino movie The Sheik) began recording for Okeh in 1930 and had their first and biggest success with "Sitting on Top of the World," which was a crossover hit and multi-million seller...

Talented tuba player and leader of Clouds Of Joy, a subtly swinging band epitomizing commercial Kansas City jazz.
Andy Kirk
Mess-A-Stomp 2:41
Cloudy (Andy Kirk) 3:00
from Complete Jazz Series 1929 - 1931
This highly recommended CD from the European Classics label has all of the early recordings of Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, although unfortunately not the alternate takes. The most famous soloists were pianist Mary Lou Williams (who was also responsible for most of the arrangements), violinist Claude Williams (who unfortunately left Kirk before he had his big success in the mid-'30s), and trumpeter Edgar "Puddinghead" Battle, although the lesser-known players mostly fare pretty well too...

José Torres Garzón, artistically known as Pepe Pinto (Sevilla, 1903 - ibídem, 6th of November of 1969) was a spanish flamenco cantaor. Was married to also flamenco cantaora artist La Niña de los Peines.
Pepe Pinto
Los ojos de ella en los míos / Lloraba 'mu' amargamente / Del hombre la inteligencia (Fandanguillos) 2:42
El pañuelo de Pastora (Inspiraciones gitanas) 2:59
from Great Interpreters of Flamenco - Pepe Pinto [1929 - 1932], Volume 2
Flamenco
Flamenco (Spanish pronunciation: [flaˈmeŋko]), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain in the autonomous community of Andalusia and Murcia. In a wider sense, the term is used to refer to a variety of Spanish musical styles. The oldest record of flamenco music dates to 1774 in the book Las Cartas Marruecas by José Cadalso. Flamenco has been influenced by and associated with the Romani people in Spain; however, its origin and style are uniquely Andalusian...

Charlie Lincoln - Doodle Hole Blues 3:17
Gitfiddle Jim - Rainy Night Blues 2:55
Fred McMullen - Wait And Listen 3:02
from The Georgia Blues (1927-1933)

At the beginning of the 20th century, three Cuban musicians formed Trio Oriental to perform the folk music that hailed from the west of the island. The trio later added members, changed their name to Sexteto Habañero, and became the first and most influential performers of son, a vivid Afro-Spanish fusion of musical styles.
Sexteto Habanero
The Music of Cuba
Romance Guajira 3:28
Vi una Vez 3:04
from Soneros Cubanos / Recordings 1929 - 1934, Vol. 3
Son consists of two stylistic levels. The first level (African in origin) is a rumba rhythm over which a variety of percussionists improvise. The second level (deriving from Spain) is provided by a combination of three string guitars known as tres and a makeshift bass. Spanish lyrics are sung over the instruments in traditional decima form with rhymed octosyllabic lines. During the 1920s, Sexteto Habañero were the definitive son band of cuba.