FLETCHER HENDERSON "St. Louis Shuffle" Victor 20944-A

This is Take 2, only issued on this Victor, other takes were used for the Bluebird reissue and all LPs.
New York, April 27, 1927
FLETCHER HENDERSON'S ORCHESTRA:
Fletcher Henderson - Piano, Arranger, Director
Joe Smith, Russell Smith - trumpet (?)
Benny Morton, Jimmy Harrison - Trombone
Buster Bailey, Don Redman - Clarinet, Alto
Coleman Hawkins - Clarinet, Tenor
Charlie Dixon - Banjo
June Cole - Brass Bass
Kaiser Marshall - Drums

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks

[@BruceTheSillyGoose]

amazed this much fidelity was in those 78 rpm grooves.

[@VictrolaJazz]

This was one of my favorites on the A Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story album! The library let me borrow it one weekend and I recorded the discs onto cassette tapes!

[@davidindelta6472]

While I have no idea if he was right or not, according to discographer Benny H. Aasland in his 1954 edition of The Wax Works of Duke Ellington, this is a Duke Ellington orchestration. Aasland shows Henderson recorded it twice, this being from the second session on April 22 1937. This session produced Victor 20944 and Bluebird 10246. The first sessiom March 23 produced the song on the Harmony, Diva and Velvetone labels.

[@SteveEspinola]

1927, yes?

[@bill3murr]

SO GOOD TO HEAR THIS TAKE....FIRST TIME. THANK YOU.

[@Atticus70]

What a great band!

[@vitajazz]

I was about to mention that no noise reduction was used, it's just the 2.8 mil truncated elliptical being perfectly matched to the record.

[@HarborGuy]

Too great - did you have to clean it up much for such great sound..............Nice turn table,

[@jpmfm54]

Tommy Ladnier on trumpet...

[@homzymusic]

I saw you checked fo speed accuracy. Your recording is at the same pitch as all the other recordings I've heard on UA-cam. This means the piece is in the key of E Major - but all the bands which play it to day use charts in the much easier key of Eb Major.