1919 HOT BLUES WILBUR SWEATMAN Or JAZZ BAND Slide Kelly Slide Time to have A2775
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A series of great JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records
More great Jazz and Vocal Records in my other listings!
FIRST BLACK Jazz Band to record: Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band in HOT fox trot ODJB style with some ragtime:
Label: Columbia – A2775
Released: Oct 1919
Genre: Jazz
Louisiana Five Jazz Orchestra*– I Ain't 'En Got'En No Time To Have The Blues
Written-By – H. Von Tilzer*
A1a – Grape Juice Bill
Written-By – Van And Schenck
A1b – Open Up The Golden Gates To Dixie
Written-By – Van And Schenck
B Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band– Slide, Kelly, Slide
Written-By – Briegel*
Banjo [Uncredited] – Karl Berger (2) (tracks: A)
Clarinet [Uncredited] – Alcide Nunez (tracks: A)
Clarinet [Uncredited], Directed By [Uncredited] – Wilbur Sweatman (tracks: B)
Drums [Uncredited] – Anton Lada (tracks: A), Harry Bowser (tracks: B)
Piano [Uncredited] – Dan Parish (tracks: B), Joe Cawley (tracks: A)
Tenor Saxophone [Uncredited] – Unknown Artist (tracks: B)
Trombone [Uncredited] – Charles Panelli (tracks: A), Major Jackson (2) (tracks: B)
Trumpet [Uncredited] – Arthur Briggs (tracks: B)
Tuba [Uncredited] – Romy Jones (tracks: A)
Notes
Side A: Fox-trot. Recorded June 23, 1919, New York, NY.
Side B: One-step. Recorded March 24, 1919, New York, NY. Please see top of the page for condition
Louisiana Five Profile: Early jazz group, formed in 1918 by drummer Anton Lada. The group partook in 18 recordings sessions (mostly for Emerson), which produced more than 50 tracks.
Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band Profile: Wilbur Sweatman's musical career reads like the history of African-Americans in popular music. He got his professional start in a circus band, then moved on to minstrel shows and vaudeville. He led a successful syncopated orchestra based in Chicago early in the century and made the first recording of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1903. In the years before World War I, Wilbur Sweatman lead a band at the Big Grand Theatre in Chicago (3110 State Street at 31st Street). He moved to New York in 1913 and was one of the first African-Americans to join ASCAP in 1917. After the success of Original Dixieland Jass Band, Sweatman jumped on the jazz bandwagon and released dozens of records in the Teens and 1920s the most famous being "Down Home Rag". He is remembered less as a jazz musician and more as a great showman famous for playing at first two then three clarinets at once. Duke Ellington, Sonny Greer, Otto Hardwick, Cozy Cole and Coleman Hawkins all played in his orchestra early in their careers. In the 1930s Sweatman was active in music publishing and was the executor of Scott Joplin's estate. Unfortunately after Sweatman's death in 1961, Joplin's estate fell into disarray and many unpublished and original manuscripts were lost. In the 1940s he led a trio at Paddells Club in New York and continued to play live into the 1950s.Less
Sweatman started out playing violin, then took up clarinet instead. He toured with circus bands in the late 1890s, and developed a famous act of playing three clarinets at once. He spent time playing with the bands of W.C. Handy and Mahara's Minstrels. He led a dance band in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902, where he made his first recordings on (now lost) phonograph cylinders that year or the following one. He wrote a number of rags, Down Home Rag being the most commercially successful. Sweatman moved to New York in 1913, where he became close friends with Scott Joplin, and Joplin named Sweatman as executor of his estate in his will. Sweatman enjoyed popularity with both White and Black audiences in New York, and started issuing recordings in 1916 for Emerson Records, then for PathT.
After the commercial success of the Original Dixieland Jass Band the following year, Sweatman changed the sound and instrumentation of his band along the line of the early New Orleans jazz bands such as the Original Creole Orchestra and the Original Dixieland Jass Band. Sweatman was the first African American to make recordings labeled as "Jass" and "Jazz". (Since Sweatman can be heard making melodic variations even in his 1916 recordings, it might be argued that Sweatman recorded an archaic type of jazz earlier than the Original Dixieland band.) Sweatman's was the leading jazz band for Columbia Records until his popularity was surpassed by that of Ted Lewis.
Wilbur C. Sweatman was one of the first African-Americans to record Jazz. His first Jazz recordings were made less than two months after The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's "Livery Stable Blues" which is generally considered to be the first Jazz recording. The recordings on this list, other than the Darktown Strutters Ball and Goodbye Alexander are variously labelled as by Wilbur C. Sweatman's Jazz Orchestra/Original Jass Band, Original Jazz Band/Jazz Band, sometimes omitting the middle initial. Copies are known to exist where the band name varies from one side to the other, and sometimes on the same titles from one record to another. The Little Wonder records were released simply as Jazz Band but have been attributed to Sweatman.
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