CHARLES CREATH'S JAZZ-O-MANIACS - CRAZY QUILT - ROARING 20'S 1928 EDISON C-2

[@EdisonSquirrel]

Beautiful solid sound!

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks! It certainly is and so glad you enjoyed it!

[@Cristian1929]

I love the Creath' s solo!

[@VictrolaJazz]

I know, isn't it wonderful!

[@clarabrown9743]

That's a swell record :D

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks, Clara! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@GramophonicReevolution]

That's some return!! Welcome back. Awesome sound and record 🥰

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks, Gram! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@ladycallidora]

What a great all around arrangement!!

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks, Lady! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@juliansshellacs7807]

Wow, what a great Orchestra!! 👏 And this, as you wrote, last recording of it is simply fantastic!! Thanks for sharing, Eddie!!

[@VictrolaJazz]

You're welcome, Julian! Right and so glad you enjoyed it!

[@luismantaras6460]

Glad to hear from you again! I knew this crazy jazz tune from Tennessee Tooters', though I found this version too much exciting, and that slow down final! Thanks and please, stay strong from Texas!

[@VictrolaJazz]

You're welcome! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@thendrjazz]

Creath's band was part of a very active St. Louis, Missori jazz scene of the 1920s which included trumpeters Dewey Jackson and Ed Allen who tended to play in a pre-Louis Armstrong NOLA-inluenced style. Jackson and Creath stayed in St.Louis into the 1930s while Allen went on to Chicago and then NY where he often played with Clarence Williams. The groups played both in clubs in town and on the Streckfuss riverboats. Two interesting articles on the 1920s St. Louis scene from different generations are: Marshall Stearns, "Dark Lad Creath Introduced the Stomach Vibrato", Downbeat 4,10 {Oct. 1937} and David Chevan, "Riverboat Music from St. Louis" Black Music Research Journal, 9.2 {Fall 1989}.

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks, Thomas! Your notes are so informative I'm putting them in my notes above!

[@thendrjazz]

@@VictrolaJazz Thank you for the music and the posts.

[@YotamPiano]

ohh it's been two weeks! glad to see you back with the good stuff! 0:38 my favorite part ! the beauty of simplicity..

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks! I know, what the 20's are good for and so glad you enjoyed it!

[@thendrjazz]

From Brian Rust's Jazz Records {1978 ed.} St. Louis May,1927: Charlie Creath,t-ldr; Dewey Jackson, t; Albert Wynn,trb; Horace Eubanks, William Thornton Blue,cl-as; William Rollins,ts; Burroughs Lovingood,p; Pete Patterson,bj; ?Cecil White,bb; ?Floyd Campbell,d . Campbell and Wynn had a long jazz careers that lasted into the early 1970s. Blue was part of the Missourians band and stayed with the band for a year when Cab Calloway took it over. Lovingood recorded with Dewey Jackson in 1926.

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks, Thomas! Comment put into Held for Review two weeks ago!

[@CPorter]

Welcome back Eddie. I've wondered about this song For A while, but now I've heard it and it's great

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks, C! There also a very good version I think on Regal that is just a banjo, piano and clarinet, but it is ripping!

[@rordorica]

In this case the 13 th is not a bad luck number, what a nice banjo all the way!

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks, Ricardo! They pulled out all the stops on their last recording and so glad you enjoyed it!

[@goldfinger95]

Where can I purchase this record? Or did you have this passed down? Great song!

[@jazzvictrola7104]

(I'm now JazzVictrola) No, I won this off of one of Kurt Nauck's record auctions a little over a year ago. His current auction, No. 71, is currently in effect, but what comes up is just the luck of the draw. I know this record isn't on it, though.

[@james-flynn1938]

For a final effort pretty good I say

[@VictrolaJazz]

Thanks, James! Yes, this one just barely squeaked by and so glad you enjoyed it!

[@Cristian1929]

this was in 1927

[@VictrolaJazz]

Yes indeed, in May, their last two sides! So glad you enjoyed it!