King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Big Butter and Egg Man From the West (1927)

[TITOMARTINO]

Hey, edmundusrex ! No Oliver, no Bessie Smith ! Where do you caught that?!

It' Hot 5 with Mae Alix.  Cheers and thanks for all you great sendings.

[BobE1945]

Grouchy2day is dead right - that is most definitely teh Louis Armstrong Hot 5 from 1926. Be nice to hear Joe Oliver's version though.

[TITOMARTINO]

@BobE1945 What Oliver's version????

[Urbino237]

Louis was only 25, 26 years old at this time and was already pouring forth with a limitless musical imagination which still enthralls to this day.

By way of rough analogy, he burst on the scene back in the late 'teens, early 1920s in a magnitude similar to the more recent impact of The Beatles on rock and roll, Bob Marley on reggae, Dizzy Gillespie on jazz and Stravinsky on classical music. Who was it who said that those groups affected their own genres while Louis affected them all...

[450984]

Lil was Louis's wife at that time!

[Squarerig]

This is DEFINITELY not King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band-it is the Hot Five of LA!

[trek4623]

nice

[Grouchy2day]

Guys, this is Louis Armstrong's Hot Five from 1926. May Alix is the female vocalist. Personnel: Louis Armstrong (cornet & vocal), Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Kid Ory (trombone), Lil Armstrong (piano), Johnny St. Cyr (banjo). The band also recorded Sunset Cafe Stomp at this session. Again with the vocal by May Alix. This is not Joe Oliver's record date.

[pirrung123]

What a great song :o)

[stillavril]

It must have been a terrible worry for Oliver, to have taken this young turk into his band and been overshadowed by him.

But what could he do? Let him go and take all the gigs, or keep him and get the gigs but be humbled alongside Armstrong?

[Roq235]

This is definitely Louis Armstrong playing the cornet.

[valvetrom]

King Oliver is standing in the back, but tacet. Armstrong is Talk"singing. Me thinks : typical PR, get any picture, twist the facts. its one of the nicest trad tunes.

[stcyrist]

Yep it's May Alix

[ntriket]

actually I believe it gets worse.....its not even King Oliver 1927, it's Louis, (hot 6 1926)

[stevevandien]

This is NOT Bessie Smith. Doesn't begin to sound like her --

[bowfrog]

Did Lil Armstrong ever sing or just piano?? A good piano player with good timing.

[heinbanjo12]

When she played as solo pianist, she also sang. Not so beautifully.

[heinbanjo12]

This is Armstrong and his hoy five.16 nov 1926.May Alix vocal Lil Armstrong Harden pno. J Dodds Cl Kid Ory trb. Johnny St Cyr bjo and Louis Armstrong trpt

[ordix44]

Hein du hast recht, aber hier spielt Louis auf

dem Cornet...mal sehen was Victor dazu sagt...

[rchdw]

Heinbanjo12 is right (as ordix44 points out), it's Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, with Mae Alix and Armstrong on trumpet -- not cornet. Joe Oliver had nothing to do with this recording.

[heinbanjo12]

I was wrong. Armstrong is playing cornet on this record. He starts playing trumpet with the Savoy Ballroom Five. Sorry for the rumour. Hein

[ordix44]

I'm afraid in this case you are wrong, Louis

plays of course "CORNET"

When in doubt, i recomment"Brian Rust's"Disco -

graphy "Jazz&Ragtime Records 1897-1942"

[ordix44]

..my answer to "rchdw" comment..

[martonburg]

I am in agreement with heinbanjo12, most certainly not Bessie Smith singing!