The record changer (Jan-Dec 1949)

YERBA-£UENA jMu^ic %p *=>hop 5721 GROVE STREET OAKLAND 9 CALIF. MAIL ORDERS WELCOMED— SATISFACTION GUARANTEED We stock ALL jazz and other labels (Everything that's advertised in THE CHANGER) (Exception: not everything in "For Disposition") Excerpts From Our New 12-Page Jazz Catalog: PARAMOUNT (reissues) $1.05 each JOHNNY. DODDS & R. M. JONES' JAZZ WIZARDS: Hot & Ready/it's A Lowdown Thing. TOMMY LADNIER ORCU witfi EDMONI A HENDERSON: Jelly Roll Blues/Lazy Daddy Blues. LOUIS ARMSTRONG with F. HENDERSON ORCH: Prince of Wales/ ( Copenhagen ) . JOE SMITH ORCHESTKA/THE MYSTERY RAGSMITH: Heart Breakin' Joe/African Rag. FLETCHER HENDERSON, piano solos: Chimes Blues/I Want To. LEADBELLY: All Out and Down/Packin' Trunk. JELLY ROLL MORTON & ORCHESTRA: Big Fat Ham/Muddy River Blues. CLARENCE WILLIAMS ORCHESTRA: Squeeze Me/New Down Home Rag. JAMES P. JOHNSON/FLETCHER HENDERSON: Harlem Strut/Unknown Blues (solos). 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NEW MEZZROW-BECHET QUINTET, King Jazz $1.05 With vocal by Coot Grant* and Grant & Wilson: You've Got To Give It To Me»/Vou Can't Do That To Me. Evil Gal Blues/Breathless Blues. NEW CIRCLE ALBUMS S-17 A Session with Baby Dodds $3.93 S-18 Claude Boilings French Blues Stars $3.93 S-20 Ralph SLUun, St. Louis Piano $2.88 S-21 Tony Parenti's Ragpickers $3.93 S-12 Ragtime King— Luckey Roberts $3.93 BOB W1LBER and His Jazz Band, with Archey, Goodwin, Foster, Benford and Wellstood. Circle Album S-24, 3-10", $3.93 ECLIPSE ALLEY FIVE, with Lewis, Robinson, Dodds, Marrero and Slow Drag. Circle _Album J3-26, 2-10". $2.88 AND: BILL WILLIAMS DIXIELAND BAND Album $3.15 Black and White Rag/Rldin' to Glory on a Trumpet Maple Leaf Rag/Muscat Ramble (sic) Jeep Blues/At the Jazz Band Ball. OUR COMPLETE CATALOG MAILED ON REQUEST. West Coast Distributors (catalog on request) : Castle, Circle, Exner, Pacific, Reissue, Rampart, Session. behind the cobwebs (Continued from Page 15) Pathe 20461 coupling Blacksmith Rag (68649-1B) and The Moan (68650-1A). Jack Wood, of England, divulges two interesting tidbits. Regarding the New Orleans Wildcats mentioned in June, Jack informs us that this is an Eddie Edinborough group which also recorded as Eddie Edinborough Washboard Band, and Bobby Jeeson's Need-More Band. The only names he can put forward for the New Orleans Wildcats' Columbia version of Baby Mine are Jeeson on guitar and Edinborough, vocals. Jack also answers another of Leon Whitley's questions, as he says that the trumpet and trombone on Jack Hylton's Mississippi Melody are most probably Jack Jackson and Lew Davis, respectively. Jackson is now Britain's leading disc jockey and until recently had his own weekly Saturday night show, "Record Round-Up." Lew Davis has a firmly-established musical instrument store in London. More on Rudy Marlow : V. S. Thomas lists the following further titles by this group: The Shepherd's Serenade (100346), Ha 1073; Leave It That Way (100397), Ha 1175 & Ve 2175; Beside An Open Fireplace (100347), Ha 1074; Dream Lover (100325)/ Mv Love Parade (100324), Ha 1027; and Sunny Side Up (100322), Special Record. Dan Mahony indicates that the recording date which produced masters (100338100342.) was probably November 15,-1929. Ozzie M\ Shellum also reports on Rudy Marlow. He has He's So Unusual (100340-1) on Ve 2063 and Dixie Jamboree (100341-1) on Di 3062. He says that they have a Red Nichols "sound" to him and perhaps they are one of his various combinations, but this we doubt. The deadline's here again and the rest of Ozzie's data will have to be pushed off until next time. Remember to send your answers, questions, comments, etc. to me at 74 South Road, Harrison, New York or c/o the Record Changer. lemME (Continued from Page 6) of two fallacies in jazz criticism which we deplore anfl feel the necessity of deploring out loud. One is the assumption, made mostly by the "modernists," that jazz is a logical matter, subject to "discipline" and strict order and enumeration. The other is the feeling th'-.t jazz must be considered Art (with a capital A) and that the only way to achieve this end is to deliver high-sounding, pontifical lectures designed as Criticism (with a capital C.) Our answer to this is in the words of a late college professor of ours, a massive and rather diabolical fellow who would listen while students went on at great length, in impressively resounding phrases, delivering thunderously obvious critiques of some great literary wojk. When they finished, the professor would fix them with a freezing glare, and slowly ask : "Having said that, what have you said?" (2) Downbebt's foible can be dispensed with much more quickly and. in much less detail. Their July 15th issue announces, in a full-page advertisement and a full-length editorial, $1,000 in cash (only $500 if you aren't a subscriber) to the person who "coins a new word" that best describes all music "from Dixieland through Bop." Jazz, it appears, is. an "Outdated" word. We would be the last to deny that jazz is one of the most abused words in the language, that it is well-nigh impossible to tell exactly what someone means when he says "jazz." 1 We have often been confused by the fact that this word, depending upon who uses it, can conceivably be intended to describe anything from Morton Gould to Buddy Bolden. But, we submit, it is an amazingly childish thing to produce a word via a contest, and to expect anyone other than the Downbeat staff (and the prize-winner) to use the word. In any case, did the Beat stop to think that any new word would immediately be subject to the same abuses, mis-uses and over-uses that have rendered the original word ''obsolete" ? But we don't want to decry this contest completely. As a matter of fact we intend to compete. We don't want to win, you understand ; it's just that Downbeat has gone into this thing wholeheartedly, in the good old American spirit of the quiz shows that offer the State of Rhode Island to anyone who can whistle Dixie. We're partly interested in coming in second or third, to win one night's use of either "a complete name band" or a "name combo." But what we really want is to produce the fourth, fifth, 'or sixth best word. For this will get us transported to New York, Chicago, or Hollywood (unless we "reside there already") for — hold on to your hats ! — "an evening's date with a name male or girl .vocalist, depending on the winner's sex." This would mearua free dinner in a "famous restaurant" and an evening at "the most popular night spot in town," but the hell with that. We know what our sex is, and we want Doris Day. There is no further comment from the editors this month. good and rare (Continued from Page 16) Johnny Meyer, has made Parfum Des Roses/Matrosendans, Dutch De. M32382. From Australia comes word that the Bell band has waxed Shabby Gal Rag/Chicken and Almonds; Broom Angle/Czechoslovak Journey; Free Man's Blues/ Is That The Way. These will be released on Australian Parlophone. Several of these tunes were previously waxed in England, France, or Czechoslovakia on the Bell Band barnstorming tour, but the,re has always been difficulty in acquiring them, so most collectors will be glad of this opportunity of hearing them for the„first time. The ' Hot Club of Berlin, under the able leadership of Hans Bluthner, recently featured a jazz jamboree at the Corso Theater in Berlin. Considerable jazz interest exists in Germany, which gives promise of a possible renaissance of New Orleans style, such as recently took place in Australia. Too many interesting jazz records are currently being produce^ in Germany at present to permit us to list them. We will obtain copies of the recommended sides and pass along dur reaction in later columns. Lifting of the "blockade" has now made it possible to trade without undue difficulty. Odeon has released a series of US reissues which feature Bessie Smith : Lady Luck Blues /Y.odling Blues; Frankie Trumbatier : Mississippi Mud/Take Your Tomorrow; Fats Waller: Crasy 'Bout My Baby/ Drag gin My Heavy Around; and Louie Armstrong's Savoyagers Stomp are among the most interesting sides. We would like to thank our many friends and readers for the wonderful response to our requests for letters and cards. We had no idea so many people read and enjoyed our column. Thanks, too, for the various suggestions.