Pioneers of the Jazz Guitar

[jostber]

I think this collection of early jazz guitar from Yazoo is a wonderful collection:

http://yazoorecords.com/1057.htm

Does anyone know of other compilations of jazz guitar from the same period with the same high quality?

- Jostein

[brownie]

This other wonderful collection is a very worthy matcher:

Jazz Masters of Acoustic Guitar

From the SagaJazz label that is being researched by the various people that contributed to the late Masters of Jazz series.

Track list:

01 Hittin’ on All Six John Cali & Tony Guttuso

02 Whispering Oscar Aleman

03 Georgia Bound Blind Blake

04 Toledo Shuffle Bernard Addison

05 Eddie’s Twister Eddie Lang

06 Buck Jumpin’ Al Casey

07 Feeling My Way Eddie Lang & Carl Kress

08 With Plenty of Money and You Oscar Moore

09 Chasing a Buck Dick McDonough

10 Profoundly Blue Charlie Christian

11 A Handful of Riffs Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang

12 I’ll See You in My Dreams Django Reinhardt

13 Hey Hey Big Bill Broonzy

14 Once in a While George Van Eps

15 When I’m Alone Eddie Durham

16 Peg Leg Shuffle Carl Kress

17 My Blue Heaven Johnny St. Cyr

18 Chicken a la Swing Carl Kress & Dick McDonough

19 Guitar in High Teddy Bunn

20 Pickin’ for Patsy Allan Reuss

21 Guitarese Roy Smeck

22 Jazz in G Carl Kress & Tony Mottola

23 Swing Out Rhythm Lonnie Johnson

24 I’m Fer It Too Freddie Green

[jostber]

Looks great, thanks! I'll check that out!

- Jostein

[Big Beat Steve]

Here is something from the vinyl corner to complement the two CD's above:

"Dick McDonough and Carl Kress - Guitar Genius in the 1930's" - Jazz Archives JA-32

15 tracks featuring Dick McDonough solo, in a duo with Carl Kress, but most of the tracks feature both of them together in a 1937 band with Adrian Rollini.

"Chasing a Buck" is on that one too but otherwise the tracks do not dupklicate any of the material on the two CD's above. Worth searching the secondhand LP stalls for ...

[garthsj]

I know that there is some ambivalence about Proper Boxes, but this a good one ....

Hittin' On All Six

A History of the Jazz Guitar

Disc One Tracks Disc Two Tracks Disc Three Tracks Disc Four Tracks

Disc One -

1. STEPPIN’ ON THE BLUES Lonnie Johnson (Johnson) ® 1927

2. WILD CAT Eddie Lang (Venuti, Lang) ® 1927

3. FOR NO REASON AT ALL IN C Eddie Lang (Trumbauer, Beiderbecke) ® 1927

4. DOIN’ THINGS Eddie Lang (Lang) ® 1927

5. SAVOY BLUES Lonnie Johnson (Ory) ® 1927

6. THE MOOCHE Lonnie Johnson (Ellington,Mills) ® 1928

7. HAVE TO CHANGE KEYS (TO PLAY THESE BLUES) Eddie Lang (Johnson, Lang) ® 1928

8. GUITAR BLUES Eddie Lang (Johnson,Lang) ® 1929

9. I’VE GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING TeddyBunn (Arlen,Koehler) ® 1933

10. I’LL BE READY WHEN THE GREAT DAY COMES Teddy Bunn (Bradford) ® 1933s

11. SUMMERTIME TeddyBunn (Gershwin) ® 1939

12. BLUES WITHOUT WORDS TeddyBunn (Bunn) ® 1940

13. LONESOME MOMENTS John Trueheart (Sampson) ® 1934

14. SOMEBODY LOVES ME George Van Eps (Gershwin,McDonald, De Sylva) ® 1934

15. AT SUNDOWN George Van Eps (Donaldson) ® 1946

16. DICK BERNSTEIN RAMBLE Dick McDonough (McDonough) ® 1934

17. HEAT WAVE Carl Kress/Dick McDonough (Berlin) ® 1937

18. SWINGIN’ AT THAT FAMOUS DOOR Carmen Mastren (Leather Lips) ® 1935

19. IF I COULD BE WITH YOU Carmen Mastren (Johnson) ® 1940

20. NAGASAKI Django Reinhardt (Dixon, Warren) ® 1936

21. YOU’RE DRIVING ME CRAZY Django Reinhardt (Donaldson) ® 1937

22. FINESSE (NIGHT WIND) Django Reinhardt (Taylor) ® 1939

23. NUAGES Django Reinhardt (Reinhardt) ® 1943

24. MANOIR DE MES REVES Django Reinhardt (Reinhardt) ® 1943

25. FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS Django Reinhardt (Be

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Disc Two -

1. HITTIN’ THE BOTTLE Eddie Durham (Koehler, Arlen) ® 1935

2. I WANT A LITTLE GIRL Eddie Durham (Mill, Mencher) ® 1940

3. ALABAMY HOME Bernard Addison (Ringle, Ellington) ® 1937

4. BLUES IN DISGUISE Bernard Addison (Mezzrow, Sampson) ® 1937

5. TOPSY Freddie Green (Battle, Durham) ® 1937

6. THEM THERE EYES Freddie Green (Pinkard, Tracey, Tauber) ® 1938

7. GIN, GIN Le Trio Ferret (Reinhardt) ® 1939

8. FLOYD’S GUITAR BLUES Floyd Smith (Smith) ® 1939

9. JEEPER’S CREEPERS Oscar Aleman (Mercer, Warren) ® 1939

10. I GOT RHYTHM Oscar Aleman (Gershwin) ® 1942

11. BUCK JUMPIN’ Al Casey (Casey, Kirkeby) ® 1941

12. ESQUIRE BOUNCE Al Casey (Feather) ® 1943

13. THAT’S ALL Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Tharpe) ® 1941

14. SWING 42 Jean "Matlo" Ferret (Reinhardt) ® 1943

15. TILL TOM SPECIAL Charlie Christian (Hampton, Goodman) ® 1940

16. WHOLLY CATS Charlie Christian (Goodman) ® 1940

17. PROFOUNDLY BLUE Charlie Christian (Lewis) ® 1941

18. SOLO FLIGHT Charlie Christian (Goodman, Mundy) ® 1941

19. WAITING FOR BENNY Charlie Christian (Goodman) ® 1941

20. SWING TO BOP Charlie Christian (Unknown) ® 1941

21. ROCKIN’ WITH THE ROCKETS Efferge Ware (Smith, Leonard) ® 1940

22. BLUE JUICE Bus Etri (Bennett) ® 1941

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Disc Three -

1. REFLECTIONS Bus Etri (Bennett) ® 1941

2. GEE BABY, AIN’T I GOOD TO YOU Oscar Moore (Redman, Razaf) ® 1943

3. BODY AND SOUL Oscar Moore (Green, Heyman, Sour, Eyton) ® 1946

4. LAMENT IN CHORDS Oscar Moore (Moore) ® 1947

5. ALTITUDE Irving Ashby (Hampton, Ashby) ® 1941

6. THE SPINX Irving Ashby (Tizol) ® 1946

7. TOP HAT BOP Irving Ashby (Ashby) ® 1949

8. NOBODY IN MIND Leonard Ware (Price) ® 1941

9. BODY AND SOUL Tiny Grimes (Green,Heyman, Sour, Eyton) ® 1944

10. BLUE HARLEM Tiny Grimes (Quebec) ® 1944

11. HOT IN HARLEM Tiny Grimes (Prysock, Grimes) ® 1948

12. BUGLE CALL RAG Les Paul (Pettis, Meyers, Schoebel) ® 1944

13. MOTEN SWING Les Paul (Moten) ® 1945

14. WILLIE WEEP FOR ME Les Paul (Lim) ® 1945

15. TEMPO’S BOOGIE Billy Mackel (Hampton) ® 1944

16. IMPROMPTU ENSEMBLE NO.1 Eddie Condon (Condon) ® 1944

17. CAJUN LOVE SONG Nappy Lamare (Wrightsman,Miller, Veret) ® 1945

18. BLOOD ON THE MOON DannyBarker (Page) ® 1945

19. BLUES A LA RED Remo Palmieri (Collins) ® 1944

20. STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY Remo Palmieri (Goodman, Webb, Sampson) ® 1941

21. STARDUST Jimmy Shirley (Carmichael,parish) ® 1945

22. WHAT IS THERE TO SAY Allan Reuss (Duke, Harburg) ® 1945

23. THE MOON IS LOW Allan Reuss (Brown, Freed) ® 1946

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Disc Four -

1. I SAW STARS Dave Barbour (Goodhart, Foffman) ® 1946

2. CHINA BOY Dave Barbour (Winfree,Boutelje) ® 1946

3. BLUE LOU George Barnes (Sampson, Mills) ® 1946

4. LOVER COME BACK TO ME George Barnes (Romberg, Hammerstein) ® 1946

5. THE GRABTOWN GRAPPLE Barney Kessel (Shaw, Harding) ® 1945

6. RELAXIN’ AT CAMARILLO Barney Kessel (Parker) ® 1947

7. TIGHT AND GAY Arvin Garrison (Porter, Watson) ® 1946

8. NIGHT IN TUNISIA Arvin Garrison (Gillespie, Paparelli) ® 1946

9. MINUET IN VOUT Slim Gaillard (Gaillard) ® 1946

10. DOCTOR KEETS Bill De Arango (Webster) ® 1946

11. SPOTLITE Mary Osborne (Hawkins) ® 1946

12. ALLEN’S ALLEY Mary Osborne (Best) ® 1946

13. BLUE SERGE Churck Wayne (Burns) ® 1946

14. CONCEPTION Chuck Wayne (Shearing) ® 1949

15. DONNA LEE Barry Galbraith (Parker) ® 1947

16. LAMENT (LAMENT FOR GUITAR) Laurindo Almeida (Rugolo) ® 1947

17. SHIRLEY STEPS OUT Al Hendrickson (Powell) ® 1947

18. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE Herb Ellis (Hammerstein) ® 1947

19. SWEDISH PASTRY Herb Ellis (Kessel) ® 1947

20. SUBCONCIOUS-LEE Billy Bauer (Konitz) ® 1949

21. WOW BillyBauer (Tristano) ® 1949

22. JOHN’S DELIGHT John Collins (Dameron) ® 1949

23. IN A PINCH Jimmy Raney (Haig) ® 1949

24. EXTROVERT Jimmy Raney (Leonard) ® 1949

Compiled and produced for release by Joop Visser

Digital remastering by Peter Rynston at Tall Order Studios

This compilation ® 2000- Proper Records Ltd.

© 2000- Proper Records Ltd.

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