[Dixielandjazz] Did King Oliver write "Sweet Mumtaz"?

[david richoux]

I am not certain that either of these comments have anything to add, but I
have seen the word Mumtaz often in lists of Klezmer tunes, so it may be an
adaptation of a traditional tune; and less likely -  Mumtaz Sweet has
worked at Nabada (Manager), studied at muqdisho and is from Muqdisho,
Banaadir, Somalia (according to Google ;-)
)

David Richoux


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Bruce Stangeland
<stangeland at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Dick,
>
> The Charles Anderson collection credits "Sweet Mumtaz" to
> Joseph "King" Oliver (Arr. Luis C. Russell) 1926.
>
> Cheers,
> Bruce
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> In my efforts to double-check and confirm every
> title in the Stomp Off catalog, I went to the
> Library of Congress copyright files to confirm
> the well-known fact that Luis wrote this tune,
> which he recorded twice, but nobody else did at
> the time.  Much to my surprise, I find a
> copyright that says Oliver wrote it, Russell just arranged it:
>
>          Sweet Mumtaz; melody, J. Oliver, of U.S., arr. Luis C. Russell.
>          ? 1 c. June 6, 1925; E 616496; Joseph Oliver, Chicago.
>
> I found most of the original 1926 record labels
> that Russell's recordings came out on, and they
> all credited Russell.  I checked my own record
> collection and found that in my 11 recordings of
> it, only one band, Buck Creek, had attributed it to Oliver.
>
> Has anybody here every run across any information
> that would explain this discrepancy?
>
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> --Dick Baker
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