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

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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)...

31-07-2018 12:48 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds ~ 1940s & 1930s

31-07-2018 12:48 ~ PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds ~ 1940s & 1930s   >>Marilyn Monroe, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Jug Band, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Boswell Sisters, Django Reinhardt,Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Patton, Duke Ellington, Blind Willie McTell, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong<<

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1940s-1930s

Comedienne, iconic 1950s movie sex symbol, and appealing interpreter of flirtatious vocal ballads.  Although film actress and Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe has been the subject of a large number of albums, she rarely stepped into a recording studio to make a commercial recording and only appeared in five real movie musicals (with a few other musical performances in her straight films), making for a total record and soundtrack output of less than three dozen titles that are recycled endlessly along with bits of movie dialogue and radio and TV appearances on the frequent reissues.
Marilyn Monroe
My Heart Belongs To Daddy (C. Porter) 5:01
Bye Bye Baby (Styne, Robin) 3:22
from Goodbye Primadonna

A hugely influential and original blues musician in the early 1900s, often crossing over into jazz.  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.
Lonnie Johnson
A Broken Heart That 2:56
Blue in G 2:55
Guitar Blues 3:19
from Guitar Blues

Memphis Jug Band - Sun Brimmer's Blues 3:25
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Matchbox 3:01
Lonnie Johnson- Playing With The Strings 3:01
The Boswell Sisters - Rock And Roll
from Roots of Rock N' Roll Vol 1 1927-1938
The Big Bang! The Birth of Rock and Roll
In the early 1950s, a new form of music exploded onto the scene, exciting a growing teenage audience while startling many others who preferred the music of Bing Crosby and Patti Page. Popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in 1951, the term "rock and roll" came to be used to describe a new form of music, steeped in the blues, rhythm and blues, country, and gospel. Teenagers fell in love with this new sound, listening to it on transistor radios and buying it in record stores. Many parents believed that this music was simply noise that had a negative influence on impressionable teens. Either way, it became clear that rock and roll was here to stay, bringing with it important changes. Examine the impact of rock and roll, and explore how the birth of this new music influenced and was influenced by technology, teen culture, race, and geography...

Swing’s African Roots and Early Influences

12-07-2018 11:40 - PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds ~ 1940s-1930s

12-07-2018 11:40 - PREHiSTORiC:MiX ~ 33 pieces excavation finds from ancient sounds ~ 1940s-1930s   >>Alberta Hunter, Cecil Gant, Big Joe Turner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Four Clefs, Lester Young, Tommy Dorsey, Lena Horne, Xavier Cugat,Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Marilyn Monroe, Lonnie Johnson, Memphis Jug Band, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Boswell Sisters, Django Reinhardt,Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Billie Holiday<<

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1940s-1930s

Jazz-blues singer soared to popularity in the '20s & '30s, returned in the '80s. Alberta Hunter was a pioneering African-American popular singer whose path crosses the streams of jazz, blues and pop music. While she made important contributions to all of these stylistic genres, she is claimed exclusively by no single mode of endeavor. Hunter recorded in six decades of the twentieth century, and enjoyed a career in music that outlasted most human lives.
Alberta Hunter
You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter / Maceo Pinkard) 2:58
Beale Street Blues (W.C. Handy) 3:17
from Alberta Hunter Vol. 4 (1927-c. 1946)
The fourth and final volume of Alberta Hunter's early recordings as reissued by Document during the 1990s covers a substantially longer stretch of time than any of the preceding installments, beginning in May 1927 and following her progress through the year 1946. Although she recorded sporadically during these years, she worked with an impressive roster of instrumentalists as her voice gradually deepened, enabling her to deliver the goods with visceral fortitude and earthy candor. This fine disc opens with three duets featuring Thomas "Fats" Waller at the pipe organ, with Hunter singing in a mellifluous contralto. Dazzled by his amazing ability to play real jazz on an instrument usually confined to churches...

Alberta Hunter, far right, performs Vaudeville

Cecil Gant -  I Wonder 2:45
Big Joe Turner - S.K. Blues, Part 1
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Day 2:53
Four Clefs - V Day Stomp 3:10
from Blowing the Fuse: 28 R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox in 1945
Blowing the Fuse is a killer series of compilation CDs issued by Germany's premier archivist label, Bear Family. Subtitled "R&B Classics That Rocked the Jukebox," each volume is compiled by year. This one, covering 1945, hosts 26 tunes. What is immediately arresting is the sequencing here...

A tenor sax legend, known as Pres, whose melodic, smooth-flowing lines made him the most influential and inventive player of the pre-bop era. Lester Young was one of the true jazz giants, a tenor saxophonist who came up with a completely different conception in which to play his horn, floating over bar lines with a light tone rather than adopting Coleman Hawkins' then-dominant forceful approach. A non-conformist, Young (nicknamed "Pres" by Billie Holiday) had the ironic experience in the 1950s of hearing many young tenors try to sound exactly like him.
Lester Young
Jones-Smith Incorporated - Shoe Shine Boy (1936-11-09, Chicago) 2:57
Kansas City Six With Lester Young - Countless Blues (1936-11-09, Chicago) 2:58
Kansas City Six - I Got Rhythm 3:14
from The Ultimate Jazz Archive Set 20 - CD 2 / Lester Young 1936-1944

Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie (Pinetop Smith) 3:10
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler) 3:23
Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - Brazil (Ary Barroso / Bob Russell) 2:48
from TIME LIFE MUSIC Your Hit Parade: 1943
1943, the second full year of World War II for the U.S., and the first full year of the recording ban called by the musicians union (though Decca Records settled with the union by the fall), was an odd time in American popular music, one in which vintage recordings were re-released for hits and in which new recordings were made a cappella to circumvent the ban....