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Classics 1934-1940 |
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| Styles: |
Blues - Jump Blues - Jazz - Labels - Classics - Swing - R&B and Soul - Classic R&B & Soul |
| Media: |
Audio CD |
| Release Date: |
November 1992 |
| Label: |
Classics |
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| Amazon Sales Ranking: |
46667 |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Description |
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Louis Jordan 1934-40 covers the intriguing early years of this dynamic performer as completely as recordings allow. The first four tracks, from 1934 and 1937, document his fairly straight singing with the Harlem bands of Clarence Williams and the legendary drummer Chick Webb. By 1938 Jordan's own band was accompanying the popular baritone Rodney Sturgis at a date that ended with Jordan singing, in far more lively fashion, his own "Honey in the Bee Ball" and a humorous "Barnacle Bill". The first 16 titles recorded by Jordan's newly christened Tympany Five then complete the CD. Besides the leader's increasingly confident vocals the group featured his hot and swinging alto saxophone work (baritone or clarinet as well on occasions) and the trumpet of the little-known but impressive Courtney Williams. The lively rhythm section rolls cheerfully along and on the first date drummer Walter Martin actually used tympany for novelty value. Thereafter he found he swung more without them, but the group's name remained as the Tympany Five and they played on into history. --Graham Colombé |
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Tracks |
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| 1 |
I Can't Dance, I Got Ants In My Pants |
| 2 |
Gee, But You're Swell |
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Rusty Hinge |
| 4 |
It's Swell Of You |
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Toodle Loo On Down |
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So Good |
| 7 |
Away From You |
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Honey In The Bee Ball |
| 9 |
Barnacle Bill The Sailor |
| 10 |
Flat Face |
| 11 |
Keep A-Knockin' |
| 12 |
Sam Jones Done Snagged His Britches |
| 13 |
Swingin' In The Cocoanut Trees |
| 14 |
Doug The Jitterbug |
| 15 |
At The Swing Cats' Ball |
| 16 |
Jake, What A Snake |
| 17 |
Honeysuckle Rose |
| 18 |
'Fore Day Blues |
| 19 |
But I'll Be Back |
| 20 |
You Ain't Nowhere |
| 21 |
You're My Meat |
| 22 |
June Tenth Jamboree |
| 23 |
You Run Your Mouth And I'll Run My Business |
| 24 |
I'm Alabama Bound |
| 25 |
Hard Lovin' Blues |
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