17-04-2020 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

Charlie Christian

17-04-2020 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Casey Bill Weldon, Cleoma Breaux Falcon, Amédé Breaux, Ségura Frères, Cajun music, Jimmy Rushing, Charlie Christian, Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Georgius, Sol Hoopii, Kalama's Quartet, Kanui & Lula, Hawaiian Music,  Hazel Scott, Lonnie Johnson<<

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Among the premier "Hawaiian" guitarists, with voicings, fluidity, and tunings that were creative and imaginative.
Casey Bill Weldon
Somebody Changed The Lock On That Door 3:22
Two Timin' Woman
from Slide Guitar Swing (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...

Cleoma Breaux Falcon - Il a Vole Mon Traineau 3:01
Amédé Breaux - Jolie Blonde 3:04
Ségura Frères - A Mosquito Ate Up My Sweetheart 2:58
from Cajun Louisiane 1928-1939
Cajun music
Cajun music (French: Musique cadienne), an emblematic music of Louisiana played by the Cajuns, is rooted in the ballads of the French-speaking Acadians of Canada. Cajun music is often mentioned in tandem with the Creole-based zydeco music, both of Acadiana origin, and both of which have influenced the other in many ways. These French Louisiana sounds have influenced American popular music for many decades, especially country music, and have influenced pop culture through mass media, such as television commercials.

Highly popular blues and jazz vocalist of the 1930s & '40s who fronted the Count Basie band
Jimmy Rushing
Blue Devil Blues 2:47 Walter Page
Boogie Woogie 3:16 Jones-Smith Incorporated
I Left My Baby 3:14 Count Basie
from Jimmy Rushing the Band Singer 1929-1940
Rushing, the daddy of Kansas blues and thus, of R&B, was a singer of power and flexibility. He sang with the Blue Devils, with Benny Moten, even with Benny Goodman, but above all with the greatest of the Count Basie bands. Classic or unknown it's all splendid, both vocally and instrumentally, but the Basie cuts are wealth beyond compare.

01-03-2020 PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

01-03-2020 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Missississippi Sheiks, Andy Kirk, Charlie Lincoln, Gitfiddle Jim, Fred McMullen, Sexteto Habanero, Fats Waller, Lionel Hampton, Mildred Bailey, Casey Bill Weldon, Cleoma Breaux Falcon, Amédé Breaux, Ségura Frères, Cajun music, Jimmy Rushing, Charlie Christian<<

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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...

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)

04-09-2019 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

Mary Lou Williams

04-09-2019 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Mary Lou Williams, Josephine Baker, Casey Bill Weldon, Kostas Karayiannis, Yiorgos Mihalopoulos, Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra, Benny Goodman, The Wolverine Orchestra, Hitch's Happy Harmonists, Ross Gorman and His Orchestra, The Original Memphis Five, Henry Spaulding, Hi Henry Brown, Jim Jackson, Jelly Jaw Short, Duke Ellington, Annette Hanshaw, Dock Boggs<<

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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.

Mary Lou Williams
Tea for Two (Irving Caesar / Vincent Youmans) 2:52
Mary Lou Williams Blues (Mary Lou Williams) 3:20
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. 

Josephine Baker
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...

Among the premier "Hawaiian" guitarists, with voicings, fluidity, and tunings that were creative and imaginative.
Casey Bill Weldon
I Believe You're Cheatin' On Me 3:17
The Big Boat 3:12
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...

Kostas Karayiannis, Yiorgos Mihalopoulos
Svarniara (syrto) [1928]
Gainta Karagouna (syrto) (1936) by Yiorgos 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.

Fats Waller & His Rhythm - A Little Bit Independent 2:58
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

10-07-2019 PREHiSTORiC_MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959

10-07-2019 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds / before 1959   >>Lonnie Johnson, Django Reinhardt, Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra, Xavier Cugat, Arthur "Dooley" Wilson, Muddy Waters, Charlie Christian, Mary Lou Williams, Josephine Baker, Casey Bill Weldon, Bert Firman, Kostas Karayiannis, Yiorgos Mihalopoulos, Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra<<

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A hugely influential and original blues musician in the early 1900s, often crossing over into jazz. 
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...

Legendary, almost mythical gypsy jazz guitarist of the 1930s, collaborations with violinist Stephane Grappelli are landmarks. 
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...

Tommy Dorsey / Frank Sinatra - There Are Such Things (Abel Baer) 2:43
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)...