George Lewis (1966 Live Mono Promo Vinyl LP Playtested LP 710) At Dixieland Hall

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Live Recording From Dixieland Hall, New Orleans 4/24/1965

VPI MACHINE CLEANED & PLAYTESTED

HI FI – MONO

PROMO

Band/Artist: George Lewis

Album Title: George Lewis At Dixieland Hall

Featuring: Joshua Willis, Louis Nelson, Charles Hamilton, Placide Adams, Dave Oxley

Catalogue Number: LP 710

Year/Record Company: 1966 Nobility Records

1 LP – Mono - 12 inch vinyl record - 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a pirated, bootlegged or copied version. This live mono LP record album comes from my personal collection & has been VPI machine cleaned & playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke and pet free conditions.

LP Condition: very good

Shine: some

Scratches: several light and several feather

Label Wear: minimal (completely readable)

Labels: silver on blue labels with “Nobility at the top

Spindle Hole Wear: very light

LP Sound: very good (no skips, no hang-ups, no missing audio)

Surface Noise: light

Jacket Condition: very good+ (completely readable)

Shrink Wrap: none

Wear To Seams: minimal (no splits, no tape)

Back Ring Wear: very light

Front Ring Wear: minimal

Ink or pencil marks: none

Water Stains: none

Drill Holes: none

Saw Cuts: none

Stamps/Stickers: “not for sale” promo stamp on back of jacket (see photos)

Sleeve Type: blank sleeve, light wear; a new anti-static sleeve is also included

Cover: Emerson E. Mangum

Liner Notes: Donald M. Marquis

Side One

Run-Out Grooves (186-L1660 SON 31261 Nashville Mr. Trip)

Gettysburg March

Canal Street Blues

Perdido

Memphis Blues

Burgundy Street Blues

Side Two

Run-Out Grooves (186-L1661 SON 31262 Nashville Mr. Trip)

Bugle Boy March

Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Over The Waves

Redwing

George Lewis (born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon, July 13, 1900 – December 31, 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later decades of his life. During the 1920s he started the New Orleans Stompers. In that decade he also worked with Chris Kelly, Buddy Petit, Kid Rena, and was a member of the Eureka Brass Band and the Olympia Orchestra. In the 1930s he played with Bunk Johnson, De De Pierce, and Billie Pierce. He recorded with Johnson in the early 1940s and with Kid Shots Madison. Alan Lomax brought Lewis on a Rudi Blesh radio show in 1942 in which Lewis played "Woodchopper's Ball" by Woody Herman.

Unable to make enough money as a musician, he worked loading and unloading cargo on ships at the docks of the Mississippi River. In 1944 Lewis was injured while working on the docks. A heavy container nearly crushed his chest. He practiced while convalescing in bed at his St. Phillips Street home in the French Quarter. His friends, banjoist Lawrence Marrero and double bassist Alcide Pavageau, brought their instruments to his bedside. Bill Russell brought his portable recorder and they recorded "Burgundy Street Blues", improvised blues song that was to become the Lewis signature piece. Lewis stayed with Johnson's band through 1946. This included a trip to New York City, where they played for dancing at the Stuyvesant Casino on Second Avenue. Band members included Johnson, Marrero, Pavageau, trombonist Jim Robinson, pianist Alton Purnell, and drummer Baby Dodds. While in New York, they recorded for Decca and Victor. After Johnson retired, Lewis took over leadership of the band, which included Robinson, Pavageau, Marrero, Purnell, Joe Watkins, and a succession of New Orleans trumpeters: Elmer Talbert, Kid Howard, and Percy Humphrey. Starting in 1949, Lewis was a regular on Bourbon Street clubs and radio station WDSU. His band was profiled in the June 6, 1950 issue of Look magazine with photographs by Stanley Kubrick. His reputation grew and he became a leader of the New Orleans revival.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s his recordings reached the UK and influenced clarinetists Monty Sunshine and Acker Bilk. They became important contributors to the traditional jazz scene in the UK and accompanied Lewis when he toured the country. Lewis visited England in 1957, playing throughout the country with Ken Colyer's Jazzmen. In 1959 he returned, this time with his full band, and received a warm response. In 1959 he visited Denmark and played at Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen.

Beginning in the 1960s, he played regularly at Preservation Hall as leader of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band until shortly before his death. His performances were painted by New Orleans artists. Sitting portraits by Noel Rockmore were sold to collectors. Rockwell painted several musicians who had performed at Preservation Hall. John Van Beuren bought portraits that he put in other residences. His home in Morristown, New Jersey that was built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe had portraits of George Lewis and Louis Nelson. (source: Wikipedia)

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