Helen Gross, The Kansas City Five - Undertakers Blues (1924)

Helen Gross recorded 27 tracks for Ajax Records in New York City between May 1924 and March 1925, working with some of the best jazz players of the day. Not a blues singer in the classic sense, she worked from more of a vaudeville perspective, and her recordings feature - in addition to some wonderful horn charts - a preponderance of often baffling noise effects, which at times gives her songs the feel of a carnival sideshow.


Helen Gross with The Kansas City Five - Undertakers Blues (1924)

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[HarborGuy]

She also recorded this for Edison (unreleased) with the Choo Choo Jazzers. Bob Fuller Clarinet., Bubber Miley, Trumpet Elmer, Snowden Banjo ,Jake Frazer Trombone, Louis Hoper piano were the Kansas City Five for Azax I got this from The Red Hot Jazz Archive files.........

[Corrie121]

Don't know the personnel in this recording, but Bubber Miley, Rex Stewart and Louis Metcalf, played cornet on some Kansas City Five recordings around this time.

[heinbanjo12]

piano, clarinet, cornet, trombone, banjo. Who are they?