Wilbur Sweatman -Recorded In New York 1916-35 -JAZZ ORACLE CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 My Hawaiian Sunshine

1.2 My Hawaiian Sunshine

1.3 Down Home Rag

1.4 Down Home Rag

1.5 Dance and Grow Thin

1.6 I Wonder Why [From Love O' Mike]

1.7 Boogie Rag

1.8 Joe Turner Blues

1.9 Bag of Rags

1.10 Dancing An American Rag

1.11 Regretful Blues

1.12 Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues But I'm Happy

1.13 Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues

1.14 Regretful Blues

1.15 Darktown Strutters' Ball/I'm Sorry I Made You Cry

1.16 Good-Bye Alexander (Goodbye Honey Boy)/Oh! Frenchy

1.17 Indianola/Those Draftin' Blues

1.18 Oh! You la! la!/I Want Him Back Again

1.19 Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody

1.20 Those Draftin' Blues/Somebody's Done Me Wrong

1.21 Has Anybody Seen My Corrine/Down on Bull Frog's Isle/Livery Stable

1.22 Dallas Blues/At the Funny Page Ball/Lovin' (I Can't Live Without It)

1.23 Dallas Blues

1.24 Ringtail Blues

1.25 Bluin' the Blues

1.26 Has Anybody Seen My Corrine?

1.27 Ringtail Blues

1.28 Rainy Day Blues

1.29 Ja-Da! (Ja-Da, Ja-Da, Jing, Jing, Jing)

1.30 Good Man Is Hard to Find/Sweet Child

2.1 That's Got'em

2.2 Good Man Is Hard to Find

2.3 Lonesome Road

2.4 Kansas City Blues

2.5 Slide, Kelly, Slide

2.6 Kansas City Blues

2.7 I'll Say She Does (Intro: N'everything)

2.8 Lucille

2.9 Hello, Hello!

2.10 I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jellyroll/Just Leave It to Me

2.11 But/Tiddle-Dee Winks

2.12 Think of Me Little Daddy/I'm Going Back to My Used to Be

2.13 Battleship Kate

2.14 Battleship Kate

2.15 It Makes No Difference Now

2.16 Get It Now

2.17 Poor Papa

2.18 Battleship Kate

2.19 Sweat Blues

2.20 Jim Town Blues

2.21 Sweat Blues

2.22 Got 'Em Blues

2.23 Breakdown Blues

2.24 Battleship Kate

2.25 Battleship Kate

2.26 Florida Blues

2.27 Whatcha Gonna Do

2.28 Hooking Cow Blues

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(2-CD set) excludes alternate takes. The set begins with an Emerson recording in December 1916 and concludes with a Vocalion song in March 1935. In between are recordings for Edison, Victor, Gennett, Radiex, Little Wonder, Crescent, Pathe and La Belle labels. Outstanding 42-page liner notes by Mark Berresford who is currently writing a bio-discography of Wilbur Sweatman.

A compilation of pioneering recordings made by African-American clarinetist Wilbur Sweatman, a veteran of the vaudeville stage who made an important contribution to the popularization of jazz music in the late Teens and early Twenties. This set was compiled by Mark Berresford, an authority on Sweatman, and includes extensive liner notes written by Mark based on his research into Sweatman's life and music.

Producer:

Colin Bray, John R.T. Davies

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Manufacturer No.:

BDW8046

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