<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">Hello Everyone,</span><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">Who are among the Red Nichols Experts?</div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Palatino-Roman;">I’m doing a musicological deep dive into <i>Davenport Blues</i> and would like to know more about the Nichols versions.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br>The Red And Miff's Stompers : New York, February 11, 1927 - is earliest, with a bigger band and a more elaborate arrangement.</div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div> Red Nichols (cnt) Miff Mole (tb) Jimmy Dorsey (cl,as) Alfie Evans (tenor sax) Arthur Schutt (p) Joe Tarto (tu) Vic Berton (hot tympani and percussion) - Tony Colucci (bj) very softly replaces Eddie Lang.</div><div><br></div><div>I hear no tuba - just wonderful tympani playing. Also, Alfie Evans plays tenor - not alto. So, there are some important errors in the Lord discography. Also, the arrangement is ny Paul Mertz.</div><div>I wonder if any Nichols experts have picked-up on these points -</div><div><br></div><div><b>I’d love to hear the alternate take, but can’t find it. Could someone send me an mp3?</b></div><div><br></div><div>The Charleston Chasers version of Feb 25, 1927, is slower and the arrangement is much simpler. </div><div>In the alternate take, the clarinet takes the break, instead of Bix's whole-tone scale harmonized for the three horns, as in the master take.</div><div><br></div><div>Nichols also recorded <i>Davenport</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> in 1939 with a big band, supposedly arranged by Billy Maxted, but another source says </span><i>Marks</i> - but gives no first name. </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>I’d love to hear this as well. Again, an mp3 would be greatly appreciated.</b></div><div><span style="font-style: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-style: normal;">In 1958, Red did it again with a large group arranged by Heinie Beau - and bringing back the </span>hot-timpani.</div><div><br></div><div>Red loved Bix - as testified in his recordings of <i>Davenport Blues</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and arrangements of his piano pieces: </span><i>In A Mist</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and </span><i>Candlelights. </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Red also commissioned arrangements of </span><i>Flashes</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> and </span><i>In The Dark</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, but they were never recorded.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for considering my requests.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew<br><br><br></div></div></body></html>