[Dixielandjazz] Combo on Trixie Smith recordings?

Marek Boym marekboym at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 15:05:15 PDT 2015


YouTube also has the song, with Trixie Smith, as part of a collection of
1925-29 recordings.  It also shows another recordings, ostensibly - on
Black Swan, with much better sound.  None of those YouTubes gives any
information other than "The Jazz Masters."
Cheers


On 10 April 2015 at 23:57, Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:

> I revisited a “Ladies of Jazz” 3-CD set and was fascinated on three levels
> by Trixie Smith’s 1938 rendition of “My Daddy Rocks Me with One Steady
> Roll.” There were no liner notes, though, and I’m curious about who is in
> the excellent backup group. I especially liked the clarinetist—could be
> Jimmie Noone? Or not. Does anyone have the info on the sidemen?
>
> Second, when I went on YouTube I found that Trixie Smith had first
> recorded the song 16 years earlier—in 1922. What a huge difference in her
> conception and the band’s! That’s to be expected, since in my view fluid
> vocal and instrumental phrasing, vibrato, and articulation didn’t become
> standard until after the Louis with the Hot 5&7, Bix, Hines, Morton and
> others showed us how in the mid- and late 20s. The 1922 record is of
> historical interest, but only the mouldiest of fygges could prefer it as
> jazz listening. (Who, by the way, was in the earlier combo?) Both links are
> below.
>
> Third, I suspected and a little research confirmed that the 1928 recording
> was the first time that “rock and roll” was on record as a definite sexual
> reference, very explicitly at that. Roy Brown, who I heard as a kid in New
> Orleans, is sometimes credited with embedding the phrase firmly into the
> music vocabulary.
>
> Charlie
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvzmBA91P3c
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ryWwHzhJc
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