George Lewis - RARE 4-LP Set on the Blank Label (Eng.)

Recorded in New Orleans, San Francisco, Stockholm, & UK

Covers VG, shelf wear, Vinyl VG++ / VG+. Four LPs in three covers with inner sleeves.

George Lewis New Orleans Jazz Band / George Lewis Bands



issue date not known to me; recorded WDSU Broadcast "Dixieland Jambake", New Orleans, LA, April 29, 1951, KCBS Broadcast "Club Hangover", San Francisco, CA, November 21 and 28, 1953, KCBS Broadcast "Club Hangover", San Francisco, CA, December 27, 1953, KCBS Broadcast "Club Hangover", San Francisco, CA, January 2, 1954, at Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK, January 31, 1959, and at Konserthuset, Stockholm, February 10, 1959.



Tracks are:

1. Sister Kate

2. Old Nelly Gray

3. Mahogany Hall Stomp

4. Chinatown

5. Old Man Mose

6. There's Yes Yes in Your Eyes

7. Tin Roof Blues

8. Just a Little While to Stay Here

9. South Rampart Street Parade

10. The Bucket's Got a Hole in It

11. At a Georgia Camp Meeting

12. West End Blues

13. That's A Plenty

14. Lord Lord Lord You've Certainly Been Good to Me

15. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning

16. Hindustan

17. Chiri-biri-bin

18. It's a Long Way to Tipperary

19. Savoy Blues

20. Ice Cream

21. Panama Rag

22. Nobody Knows the Way I Feel

23. Who's Sorry Now

24. High Society

25. Muskrat Ramble

26. Careless Love

27. Mama Don't Allow

28. Darltown Strutters Ball

29. Bugle Boy March

30. High Society

31. Doctor Jazz

32. Dinah

33. Mahogany Hall Stomp

34. Sheik of Araby

35. Maryland My Maryland

Aggregate Personnel:

Avery "Kid" Howard (tp,vcl) Percy Humphrey, Don McDonald (tp) Jim Robinson (tb) George Lewis (cl) Joe Robichaux, Alton Purnell (p) Lawrence Marrero (bj) Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau (b) Joe Watkins (d,vcl) Smokey Stover (d) Lizzie Miles (vcl)

Ken Colyer (tp) Mac Duncan (tb) Ian Wheeler (cl) Ron Ward (b) John Bastable (bj) Colin Bowden (d) added for Track 8 above.

These records captured 35 amazing, vibrant, energetic, and unforgettable live performances by the Lewis band, at home in New Orleans, in San Francisco, in Manchester, England, and in Stockholm, Sweden. These are some of the performances that inspired scores of young musicians to play traditional New Orleans Jazz, both here and abroad.

Terrific and Impossibly RARE New Orleans Jazz 4-LP Import Set in Nice Condition.

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