JOHNNY DODDS AND JUNIE COBB [sic] HOMETOWN BAND: CHICAGO BUZZ / EAST COAST TROT

[ijoan]

Wonderful, thank you for this music! My pianist vote: Blythe, quintessential 20s jazz/blues player. "Background" clarinet is Dodds, intonation stronger.

[iainr222]

My 1950 JAZZ DIRECTORY ( Carey/McCarthy ) has Jimmy Blythe as the pianist .

[05Toamasina1938]

Did you know that Jimmy Blythe was PARAMOUNT house pianist in 1926 when this was recorded and that he played and recorded with both clarinetists ?

Besides , BOTH titles have Blythe under COMPOSER CREDITS

I rest my case

Sorry

[Dandysrecords]

Hi

I Have this 78 over in the uk ! what,s it worth any body know?

Phil dandysrecords

[78rpmblog]

@Dandysrecords Well, I bought mine for approx. £3, but I would not sell it for that price, so to speak. :D

[KawhackitaRag]

Thanks for posting this classic recording! Eustern Woodfork was a banjo player, not a drummer, and you can clearly hear his banjo playing on this record. There is no drummer on this side.

I hate to correct 05Toamasina1938, but I doubt it is Jimmy Blythe on piano here, even though he composed the 2nd tune and recorded it on at least one other occasion. I agree that it could be Tiny Parham, although to my knowledge he did not record any solo piano records and so his style is harder to assess.

[05Toamasina1938]

@KawhackitaRag

HI Andrew

there is a LOT you do not KNOW about the JAZZ piano playing of JAMES BLYTHE

The solo is typical of the BLYTHE you have never heard my YOUNG FRIEND !!!

Tiny Parham did not record with

Blues Singers until about 1927 and he does not use such phrases, I am afraid

For FUN try to follow Junie Cobb and DODDS and you ll see what is outsta nding

Once it was said that Cobb was playing an ALTO Sax

SORRY again !!!!!

[KawhackitaRag]

@05Toamasina1938 OK I listened again and I agree that this could be Blythe on piano... it doesn't sound that different from some of his other recordings. Considering that he composed both tunes, he is more likely the pianist than Parham.

RedHotJazz is a very nice site, but webmaster Scott Alexander seems to have copied personnel listings from Brian Rust's Jazz Records, a good work but not 100% accurate, and one which does not cite sources as to WHERE Mr. Rust got each bit of information.

[05Toamasina1938]

According to JRT Davies they both played clarinet but different types

The pianist is Jimmy Blythe

[bixanorak]

Excellent, 78rpmblog: thank you! I have played both tunes - especially 'East Coast Trot' many times in my career as a Jazz clarinet player, but have never been able to get through the low register duet chorus without going wrong somewhere. It was good to hear it played by its creators - have not heard it for many years.