Mildred Bailey & Frank Trumbauer - I Like To Do Things For You, 1930

Frank Trumbauer & His Orchestra, voc. Mildred Bailey - I Like To Do Things For You, Odeon 1930 (USA)
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Frank TRUMBAUER (b. in Carbondale, Illinois 1901 -- d. 1956) was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s. He played C-melody saxophone, which in size is between an alto and tenor saxophone. He also played alto saxophone, bassoon, clarinet and several other instruments.
Trumbauer -- born of part Cherokee ancestry, he grew up in St. Louis, Missouri as son of a musical mother who directed saxophone and theater orchestras. His first important professional engagements were with the Edgar Benson and Ray Miller bands, shortly followed by the Mound City Blue Blowers, a local group that became nationally famous through their hit Brunswick records. While in St. Louis, in 1926 Beiderbecke joined Frank Trumbauer, with whom he maintained a close friendship for most of the rest of his life. The two played in the Jean Goldkette band (1927) and in Adrian Rollini's Paul Whiteman's orchestras. Frankie's landmark recording of "Singin' the Blues," with Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang in 1927, is regarded as one of the greatest jazz performances ever recorded. In 1930s Trumbauer led his own band and was co-leader with Jack and Charlie Teagarden olf the Three T-s Band. He quit music in 1939, taking up for aviation industry. After 1945, he made occassionall appearances at jazz concerts, including a special tribute to Beiderbecke, held in 1952. Trumbauer's accomplishments as a Jazz musician have been overshadowed by the role he played in Bix's career. He may have played the greater role in the history of Jazz than Bix, as the grandfather of Modern Jazz. His cool, intellectual style of playing was a major influence on Lester Young and much of his style can be found in the Jazz of 1950/60s.
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Mildred BAILEY (b. 1907 in Tekoa, Washington -- d. 1951 in Poughkeepsie, NY) was a influential American jazz singer, one of the first female singers to make a name for herself in the American pantheon of jazz. Her mother was a Native American. In her chidhood, Mildred moved with her mother and three brothers to nearby Spokane, where she began playing piano and singing in movie theaters in the early 1920s. Her interest in jazz was shared by older brother Al and a neighborhood friend, Harry Lillis (Bing) Crosby. By the mid-1920s, Bailey, who had married and divorced at an early age, was headlining at a club in Hollywood, performing a mixture of pop, vaudeville standards, and early jazz tunes. She worked as a "song demonstrator," toured with the dance revue of Fanchon and Marco Wolff, and was a solo vocalist on Los Angeles radio station KMTR. Bailey's big break came when she sent a demo-record to popular bandleader Paul Whiteman, who had already hired Crosby and Bailey's older brother, Al Rinker, to appear with his band as the "Rhythm Boys." Impressed with Bailey's vocal stylings, Whiteman hired her to sing with his band, making her one of the first female singers to be featured with a major dance orchestra. In 1932 Bailey gained fame when she recorded Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair," written especially for her. It became Bailey's signature song and earned her the moniker "The Rockin' Chair Lady."

Bailey developed a relationship with jazz xylophonist Red Norvo (Kenneth Norville) not long after he joined the Whiteman band in 1931. Shortly thereafter the couple was married and Norvo left Whiteman to start his own band. Bailey went off on her own to build a career for herself as a radio vocalist. Norvo's band soon ran into trouble and appeared likely to break up. Bailey offered to join the group as vocalist in an effort to prevent disbandment. Some of the finest work of Bailey's career came from her collaboration with Norvo. Working together, the couple came to be known as "Mr. and Mrs. Rhythm." Songs closely identified with Bailey during her years with Norvo's band include "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" and "Weekend of a Private Secretary." After divorcing Norvo, Bailey through the first half of the 1940s was backed on her recordings by some of the era's finest musicians, including Johnny Hodges, Mary Lou Williams, Teddy Wilson, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Having performed with scores of African American musicians throughout her career, Bailey took an extremely enlightened view of race relations and at one point in her career had sung at a benefit in Harlem's Savoy Ballroom to aid the Scottsboro Boys.

Some more Trumbauer's renditions in YT:
Georgia On My Mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCCmSPOvuJg
Bye Bye Blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQn3Uz7W5-0

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[fromthesidelines]

Recorded on May 8, 1930, and originally released on {American} Okeh 41421. MIldred is credited on studio ledgers as "Jeannie Lang". Most of Frank's band is drawn from Paul Whiteman's sidemen, including Bill Rank on trombone, Andy Secrest and Harry Goldfield on trumpets, Joe Venuti on lead violin, Eddie Lang on guitar, Roy Bargy on piano, Min Leibrook on baritone sax, and George Marsh on drums. Unfortunately, Bix was no longer involved in Trumbauer's sessions after April 1929...

[240252]

@fromthesidelines Thank you!

[bill3murr]

what a nice world it would be if everyone could adopt this philosophy....ha. very nice photos of mr. tram and mildred. really like mildred's style; she seems to be doing a bit of jeanne lang here...maybe it's the recording system. thank for a very fine presentation...as always.

[240252]

@bill3murr Thank you BIll :-)

[barrympls]

This is a wonderful example of how Trumbauer compensated for the loss of Bix. He fills in with a long C-melody sax solo, plus Venuti's great violin. And I believe that Mildred Bailey substituted for Jeannie Lang, who was unavailable to repeat her vocal. (Remember....this was only Mildred's second vocal on record.)

[priscianusjr]

@fromthesidelines That's very interesting, because Jeanie Lang actually did perform this song with Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti in the Paul Whiteman movie King of Jazz made this same year. In fact, Mildred is imitating Jeanie Lang's style here. I wonder why Jeanie didn't record it.

[keca1430]

Speaking of radio station KMTR in Hollywood (KLAC-570-AM since 1946), Paul Whiteman and his orchestra did their Old Gold radio show for the CBS network in 1929-'30, while they were in Hollywood to make the movie "The King of Jazz." Maybe that is how Bailey was able to meet Whiteman and get her demo record to him.

[keca1430]

Speaking of radio station KMTR in Hollywood (KLAC-570-AM saince 1946), Paul Whiteman and his orchestra did their Old Gold radio show for the CBS network in 1929-'30, while they were in Hollywood to make the movie "The King of Jazz." Maybe that is how Bailey was able to meet Whiteman and get her demo record to him.

[diskochimp]

Loving this!

[1920sbuff]

Fabulous!

[knarf826]

@fromthesidelines Thank you for discovering one of the hiding places of the mysterious Andy Secrest.

[phonomono78s]

Danke für diese wunderbare Aufnahme. Mildred Bailey gehört für mich zu den besten und heute leider eher vergessenen Künstlern. Die Trumbauer Band bietet eine adäquate Begleitung. Tolle Platte!!!