Jackass Blues - King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators - Chicago, April 23, 1926 Albert Nicholas

King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators
Jackass Blues (mx E-2914)
Chicago, April 23, 1926
Brunswick A-151
79.1 RPM
King Oliver, Bob Shoffner, c / Kid Ory, tb / Albert Nicholas, Billy Paige, cl, ss, as / Barney Bigard, cl, ss, ts / Luis Russell, p / Bud Scott, bj / Bert Cobb, bb / Paul Barbarin, d. / Georgia Taylor, v
A nice German pressing of an early Dixie Syncopators classic. I did my best to compensate for Brunswick's Light Ray recording process creating a very tubby and distorted middle octave.

[@thendrjazz]

This is the "Big Band" that Oliver led at several locations in Chicago in the mid 1920s. Albert Nicholas did most of the clarinet solo work. Barney Bigard who played clarinet with Duke Ellington for decades was mostly on tenor sax in this band.

[@innocentx-rx6jp]

Hell Yeah

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released on {American} Vocalion 1014 and 15394 {as "King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators"}, and Brunswick 3245 {"Savannah Syncopators"}.

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