Ted Lewis Orchestra - Here You Come With Love 1933

[RatPfink66]

_Jazz Records_ has this date happening in Chicago, July 28, '33. I know the Teagardens were in town with some band or other at the World's Fairgrounds. In fact Columbia brought some of them in on the 29th (Bud Freeman, Rod Cless) for a date under Jack's name.

BG was presumably still in NYC at the moment. He didn't do his first Columbia session till that fall, and only because John Hammond nagged him half to death :)

[harryoakley]

@RatPfink66 True - the Teagardens recorded on the next day in the same studio. They are not on this recording though - except maybe Rod Cless.

[syncopeter]

This cannot be any band else than Teagarden with Benny on clarinet. Or the other way around. It sounds so much like the Goodman band that it cannot be a coincidence.

[harryoakley]

@syncopeter You are quite wrong about that. These are definitely not Teagarden and Goodman. This is the regular Lewis band; trombone is quite clearly George Brunies, the cornet is equally clearly Muggsy and the clarinet is Slatz Long. No doubt about it.

[syncopeter]

@Harry Oakley. I listened quite carefully and the band has that typical Goodman/Teagarden sound of the period. Both did play with Lewis, so I am probably wrong, but just play some of their records and hear how much alike the bands are.

I absolutely love those late pre-swing recordings. The 4/4 beat already is there, but the - in my view - rather forced way of arranging is not.