[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Drumming

[Kurt]

For anyone interested in the history of jazz drumming (and who wouldn't
be?!) I highly recommend the CD  "Anthology of Jazz Drumming" (Volume 1,
1904 - 1928 on the Masters of Jazz label.  It was reissued in 1997 by Media
7 (a French label).

The contact address on the CD is: Media 7; 15 rue des Goulvents; 92000
Nanterre, France.  E-Mail: media7 at easynet.fr

The CD comes with a nice booklet (in English and French) that has some
photos and lots of info about the drummers and bands being featured.

In the booklet's forward section, it says, "The aim of this anthology is to
provide a chronological overview of jazz drumming on record, from the
earliest times.  While every drummer of any importance is well represented,
we have also been careful not to ignore the obscure and the underrated, nor,
indeed, those who in their own time were well known and extensively recorded
(e.g. Stan King, Jack Roth), but who in these days only live on in the
memory of a few specialists.  In each case our biographical sketches of
major drummers concentrate principally on their recording careers."

Drummers featured include: Tommy Benford, Vic Berton, Jimmy Bertrand, Baby
Dodds, Buddy Gilmore, Sonny Greer, Charlie Johnson, Howard Kopp, James I
Lent, Kaiser Marshall, Jack Roth, Tony Sbarbaro, and Zutty Singleton.

Here is a list of bands and tunes on the CD: James I Lent (The Ragtime
Drummer), Europe's Society Orchestra (Castle House Rag), The Versatile Four
(Down Home Rag), Original Dixieland Jazz Band (Dixie Jass Band One Step;
Skeleton Jangle; Clarinet Marmalade Blues), Frank Banta (Calico Rag),
Jazzbo's Carolina Serenaders (The Yankee Doodle Blues), King Oliver's Creole
Jazz Band (I'm Going Away To Wear You Off My Mind), Erskine Tate's Vendome
Orchestra (Stomp Off, Let's Go), Red Nichols and his Five Pennies (That's No
Bargain; Boneyard Shuffle), Evelyn Preer (If You Can't Hold The Man You
Love), Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra (Rocky Mountain Blues; Sensation
Rag, Whiteman Stomp), Red and Miff's Stompers (Delirium; Davenport Blues),
Jimmy Bertrand's Washboard Wizards (Easy Come, Easy Go Blues), Jelly Roll
Morton's Red Hot Peppers (Billy Goat Stomp; Boogaboo), Duke Ellington and
his Orchestra (Washington Wobble), The Chicago Footwarmers (Ballin' The
Jack), Dixie-Land Thumpers (Oriental Man), and Louis Armstrong and his Hot
Five (Sugar Foot Strut)

Kurt