RARE SMITH-JONES INCORPORATED 78 LADY BE GOOD / BOOGIE WOOGIE VOCALION 3459 E-
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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS SCARCE 1936 JAZZ 78 ON THE ORIGINAL US VOCALION LABEL
SMITH-JONES INCORPORATED FEATURING COUNT BASIE AND LESTER YOUNG
BOOGIE- WOOGIE
Vocal by Jimmy Rushing
b/w LADY BE GOOD
In Chicago October 1936, Count Basie had a recording session which the producer John Hammond later described as "the only perfect, completely perfect recording session I've ever had anything to do with".
Hammond had heard Basie's band by radio and went to Kansas City to check them out. He invited them to record, in performances which were Lester Young's earliest recordings. Those four sides were released on Vocalion Records under the band name of Jones-Smith Incorporated; the sides were "Shoe Shine Boy", "Evening", "Boogie Woogie", and "Lady Be Good".
The Chicago recording studio was a mess. The comically tiny 12-by-15 room wasn’t big enough to accommodate Count Basie’s grand piano, so he played a beat-up baby grand. The acoustics were so poor that one hit from Jo Jones’ thunderous bass drum coupled with vibrations from Walter Page’s upright bass caused the playback needle to slap viciously back and forth. As a result, Jones was forced to use only his snare and cymbals.
The three-hour session on Nov. 9, 1936, for the independent label Vocalion Records was so impromptu that vocalist Jimmy Rushing kept his overcoat on the entire time. And Lester Young, the laid-back kid who added a new musical lexicon for the saxophone with his wide-open, buttery-warm style? He was just happy to be making his recording debut.
“I didn’t know what the heck we were going to do,” Basie recalled of the landmark date that introduced the hopping, blues-based Kansas City sound to the jazz world. “So we just sat down and came up with four tunes and had a nice ball on the session.”
The decade-old blues stomp “Boogie Woogie.” single-handedly reignited a musical genre first made popular in the ’20s and went on to influence pop (the Andrews Sisters’ “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”), early jump R&B (Louis Jordan) and rock ’n’ roll (Little Richard, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis).
DISC DETAILS US VOCALION 3459 10" 78rpm SHELLAC CONDITION - E- NICE COPYONE ONLY AVAILABLE
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