78rpm: I'm In The Mood For Swing - Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra, 1938 - Victor 26011

(A better transfer of this 78 can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c631Wczqlq8 )

Awesome bobber with fluid drive, thanks largely to Papa Jo - I dare you to keep the feet still here. :)

The personnel for this July 21, 1938 session are:

Hamp - vibes
Harry James - trumpet
Benny Carter - clarinet, alto sax
Dave Matthews - alto sax
Herschel Evans, Babe Russin - tenor saxes
Billy Kyle - piano
John Kirby - bass
Papa Jo Jones - drums

Dig.....

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Lionel
• Hampton
• Harry
• James
• Benny
• Carter
• Dave
• Matthews
• Herschel
• Evans
• Babe
• Russin
• Billy
• Kyle
• John
• Kirby
• Papa
• Jo
• Jones
• authentic
• small
• band
• swing
• yt:stretch=16:9

[JCJasion]

Sweet nugget this!!! Thanks for panning this one out of the stream, pardner.  A nice warm easy groove on this one. Carter's scoring for the saxes is very much in evidence, and the 2 reed section sidemen he has playing those dots along with him have their own credentials as total reading and improvising musicians. This record is a Who's Who of what would become Mainstream Jazz later on!

[SwingMan1937]

Oh you know it, JC. ;)

In addition to Papa Jo, the real treasure of this session (I have all 4 cuts on 78 & 3 posted thus far) for me is the presence of the vastly underrated Herschel Evans - a real moanin' swinger who never got enough room to stretch out w/Basie, IMO.

[JCJasion]

Can you imagine how big Herschel would have been in the pantheon of Jazz players had he not died so young? He was one of the people I was referring to on this recording.

[SwingMan1937]

Herschel, Chu Berry, Charlie Christian & Jimmy Blanton - imagine how the landscape of jazz would've looked had they all lived well past 1942.

Man, I hear ya. ;)

[harlanlattimore]

Babe Russin one of the most underrated tenor men-period, check out his solo on 1930's I Have To Have You with the Louisiana Rhythm Kings