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1920's hot dance music doesn't get any better than this !

Bass sax playing counter melodies behind the trumpet does it for me.

Nice to hear the Henderson trademark: the clarinet 'choir'.

Dear Victrola jazz,Thanks for your reply-I listened to the Fletcher Henderson version and it sounds pedestrian compared to this !

To hear the definitive Big Sid listen to Don Redman's Bugle Call Rag 1936.

The gramophone may be acoustic but the record is an early Columbia electric recording-must have sounded 'state of the art' in June 1925 !

Thanks for this post-I might never have heard this otherwise-for my money the best and most

swinging record by the ramblers. Is it Edison or Banner? Brian Rust tends to give a 'collective'

personel for the ramblers but I am surmising that the great trumpet is Chelsea Quealey or may even be Sylve...

Thanks for this as yet unheard (by me) track. I haven't checked but with this quality of recording it must be a Columbia; Nice Bobby Davis (alto) and Chelsea Qhealey(Tpt)-the only slight disappointment is the absence of an Adrian Rollini bass sax solo,but one can't have everything !

Goodman made a nice record of this a couple of years later but this is the Henderson version of 1934, beautifully relaxed swing. Henry Red Allen on trumpet, alto solo by either Russell

Procope,Hilton Jefferson or Buster Bailey-they all played fantastic alto ! Clarinet solo near the

end is typic...

Thankyou,Aaron1912,for your reply. I apologise for making pompous comments about this

record-I am not a trained musician so I may be way off the mark,but I have collected 20's and 30's jazz,dance music and swing since I was a boy of 13 and I am now 59 ! I appreciate the trouble that people such ...

The later(c.1930) Bidgoods have a nice full sound,often issued on the 8" Broadcast label as Nat Lewis. The vocalist,singing in the 'falsetto' style of the time e.g. Les Allen,Lou Aberlardo,and Eddie Kollis.... is Tom Barrett.

Very underrated orchestra beautifully recorded on these transcription discs that were subsequently transferred to a "Hindsight" L.P.

Another good one by this orchestra is "sleepy head" also 1934; It was issued in England on Regal Zonophone; It is a good jazzy arrangement featuring some bullish tenor sax,a good girl vocalist and driving drum work from presumably Johnny Morris.

Thankyou for your interest in my comment. I am 59 and grew up in the pop and rock generation but for some reason I became obsessed with the music of my parent's time,from the age of about 14. I discovered Harry Reser after buying a '78' of "She don't wanna" in a junk shop. Although sometimes sou...

I think this is probably the Jimmie Lunceford Orch. about 1938-wonderful ! They were one of the first swing bands to feature a high note trumpet man,Eddie Tompkins I think,without referring to "Jazz Records" by Rust. I'm pretty sure this is not Don Redman.

Late 'twenties Okehs (issued in England on Parlophone) were very well recorded-sometimes

too much treble and not enough bass-another great record by this band was "my kinda love" with a lovely early Bing Crosby vocal.

The musicianship and jazz playing of The Rhythmic Eight was streets ahead of most dance music of the time on either side of the atlantic; furthermore the Zonophone 78's are pretty rare-

I've only come across a handful after 46 years of looking in junk shops and house clearance auctions.

I think the piano is by Roy Bargy.

This is a wonderful example of early(1925) electric recording-there is much use of the bass drum which is unusual as it usually messed up the recording !

The low register clainet is very good and well recorded-this is an early(mid 1925) "Western electric" recording. Still sounds good after 86 years !

Wonderful "hi fi" recording on "Broadcast 12", vocals by Harry Bentley, listen also to "Got a date with an angel" and "If they ever had an income tax on love" by this band.

Bass sax,yes but probably played by Arthur Lally.

Beautiful. The high spot for me is the lovely trombone solo by Ed Cuffee.

George Thomas,the vocalist was central to the band but sadly died in a motor accident in about 1930.

A great Garber record-this is a different take from most of the English issues(HMV); they do not feature the muted cornet behind the vocal and the solos and breaks are slightly different.Also I think the tempo on my HMV issue is slightly faster. Lovely to hear this version.