@Joebone18974 : I guess the bass player is placed near the microphone to get that sound. This exposed style of playing the bass / recording the bass player is not common, at least not on all other records i own from this period.
@HMV163 Great jazz 78! My guess why the string bass is getting that percussive slap is to double for the missing traps man.(drummer) There isn't even a cymbol at this session, as you hear the banjo fade it out instead. Great record! Could these guys be from the Mills Blue Rhythm band? Red and Higg were members.
@Joebone18974 This style of bass playing is called " Plucking the bass" It was in fashion at the time along with Slapping the bass....Plucking the strings give a much more pronounced bass sound..Welman Broaud of the Duke Ellington band used this style to good effect on the later 20s records
This 1930 recording is by a slightly condensed Luis Russell Orchestra . I suspect they used an alternative name because of contractual issues . J.C. (later with Fletcher Henderson) of course played trombone.
I have this one on a Luis Russell CD "The Luis Russell Story 1929 - 1934"
normweav 1 month ago
Is that bass player suing a specific style of playing, or is this how basses all sounded back then?
Joebone18974 5 months ago
@Joebone18974 : I guess the bass player is placed near the microphone to get that sound. This exposed style of playing the bass / recording the bass player is not common, at least not on all other records i own from this period.
HMV163 5 months ago
@HMV163 Great jazz 78! My guess why the string bass is getting that percussive slap is to double for the missing traps man.(drummer) There isn't even a cymbol at this session, as you hear the banjo fade it out instead. Great record! Could these guys be from the Mills Blue Rhythm band? Red and Higg were members.
2reeler 5 months ago
@Joebone18974 This style of bass playing is called " Plucking the bass" It was in fashion at the time along with Slapping the bass....Plucking the strings give a much more pronounced bass sound..Welman Broaud of the Duke Ellington band used this style to good effect on the later 20s records
davidglow3 2 months ago in playlist America 1930s
This 1930 recording is by a slightly condensed Luis Russell Orchestra . I suspect they used an alternative name because of contractual issues . J.C. (later with Fletcher Henderson) of course played trombone.
iainr222 9 months ago
The saxophonist is altoist Charlie Holmes, trumpet: Henry 'Red' Allen and the strong bass player is Pops Foster.
lesterwyoung 11 months ago
Higginbotham plays trombone, not saxophone.
bsgs98 1 year ago
Nice "shag" - love the groups name lol.........
HarborGuy 1 year ago