West Coast Jazz - Vol. 1 (Arcadia, enr. 1922-1931; publ. 1974)

Arcadia 2001 (1974)

Face A

Spikes' Seven Pods of Pepper Orch.

Mutt Carey (cornet), Kid Ory (trombone), Dink Johnson (clarinette), Fred Washington (piano), Ed Garland (contrebasse), Ben Borders (batterie). Los Angeles, juin 1922. 

1. Ory's Creole Trombone
2. Society Blues

Sonny Clay's Plantation Orch.

Ernest Coycault, William Blakeney (trompette), W.B. Woodman (trombone), Leonard Davidson (clarinette), James Carson (clarinette, saxo ténor), Sonny Clay (piano, direction), Louis Dodd (saxo alto, banjo, guitare), Willis McDaniels (batterie). Los Angeles, février 1926. 

3. Plantation Blues

Ernest Coycault (trompette), Luther Graven (trombone), John Sturdevant (clarinette), Sonny Clay (piano, direction), Rupert Jordan (banjo), Willis McDaniels (batterie). Los Angeles, août 1926. 

4. Slow Motion Blues

Sonny Clay and his Orch. 

Ernest Coycault, Archie Lancaster (trompette), Luther Graven (trombone), Leonard Davidson (clarinette, saxo alto), Louis Dodd (saxo alto), William Griffin (saxo ténor), Sonny Clay (piano, direction), Rupert Jordan (banjo), Herman Hoy (tuba), Davis Lewis (batterie). Los Angeles, 12 janvier 1928. 

5. In My Dreams

Reb's Legion Club Forty-Fives

possiblement: George Orendorff, Russell Massengail (trompette), Leon White ou Edgar Williams (trombone), Les Hite, Benjamin "Reb" Spikes et possiblement un troisième (anches), Eugene Wright (piano), Bill Perkins (guitare), Max (Mack?) Shaw (tuba), inconnu (batterie). Hollywood, v. novembre 1924. 

6. My Mammy's Blues
7. Sheffield Blues

Reb Spikes' Majors and Minors Orch. 

George Bryant, Addison O'Neil (trompette), William B. Woodman Sr., Eddie Morgan (trombone), Adam "Slocum" Mitchell, Benjamin "Reb" Spikes et possiblement un autre (clarinette, saxo alto, saxo ténor), ?Fritz Webster, ---- Gordan (piano), ---- Bruce, William Robinson (guitare), George Morgan (tuba), Larence Craig (batterie). Los Angeles, 15 octobre 1927. 

8. Fight That Thing

Face B

(suite)

1. My Mammy's Blues

Curtis Mosby and his Dixieland Blue-Blowers'

James Porter, inconnu (trompette), Ashford Hardee (trombone), Charles Hite, Leo Davis (clarinette, saxo alto), Bumps Myers (saxo ténor), Attwell Rose (violon), Henry Starr (piano, chant), Thomas Valentine (banjo), ---- Perkins (tuba), Curtis Mosby (batterie, direction). Los Angeles, 14 octobre 1927. 

2. In My Dreams
3. Tiger Stomp

Curtis Mosby's Six

Inconnus (trompette), (trombone), (clarinette), (piano), (banjo), (tuba), (batterie), Curtis Mosby (direction), Nina Mae McKinney (chant). Probablement Los Angeles, 1929. 

4. Excerpt from the Film, "Hallelujah"

a. Introduction

b. Swanee Shuffle

c. Blue Blowers Blues 

The Dixie Serenaders

Doc Hart, James Porter (trompette), Leon White (trombone), Leonard Davidson, Sherman Williams (clarinette, saxo alto), Carlton Wade (clarinette, saxo ténor), Sonny Clay (piano), Frank Watkins (banjo), Bert Holliday (tuba), David Lewis (batterie), inconnu (chant). Los Angeles, v. août 1931. 

5. When It's Sleepy-Time Down South
6. River, Stay 'way from My Door

Enregistrements originaux: collections de Don Brown, Bill Thompson, Dick Raichelson. 
Notes de pochette: Dick Raichelson. 
Design du label et de la pochette: Sally Evert. 

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