Various – New Orleans Jazz – Vol. 1 – 1942-55
€12,10
Description
Track Listing:
A. Bunk Johnson: 1. Maple Leaf Rag - 2. Ballin' The Jack - 3. After You're Gone - 4. All The Whores Like The Way I Ride - 5. 827 Blues - 6. Margie - 7. You Always Hurt The One You Love - 8. Do Right Baby - 9. Golden Leaf strut -
B. Dink Johnson: 1. Indian Rag - George Lewis: 2. Careless Love Blues - 3. Don't Go 'Way Nobody - 4. Big Butter And Egg Man No 2 - 5. Bourbon Street Parade No 2 - 6. Nobody Knows The Way I feel This Morning - 7. I Can't Escape From You
Reviews:
1. AllMusic - Scott Yanow
This collector's LP from the Austrian label Wolf fills in some gaps for trad jazz fanatics. After Bunk Johnson (in 1942) is heard playing a brief fragment of "Maple Leaf Rag" on piano, the trumpeter leads his band (with clarinetist George Lewis, trombonist Jim Robinson and drummer Baby Dodds) during 1944-45 on some standards and classic jazz obscurities. Pianist Dink Johnson plays a solo version of "Indian Rag," and the album concludes with two songs apiece from three versions of George Lewis's groups, from 1943, 1951 and 1955...