The Complete Charlie Johnson Sessions (1925-1929)
The Complete Charlie Johnson Sessions (1925-1929)
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Genre: Jazz | Year: 1925
In 1925, when the Charleston was all the rage, Fletcher Henderson, generally credited as "the inventor, of big-band jazz", was still firmly installed at the New York's celebrated Roseland Ballroom, and calling upon the services of such jazz star as Louis Armstrong, Busier Bailey, Don Redman and Coleman Hawkins. A young competitor recently arrived in town, a man by the name of Edward Kennedy Ellington, was popping up all over Harlem, but more especially at the Barron Wilkins Club (later the Kentucky Club), with Bubber Miley as his trumpet star, and Cotton Club days no longer very far away. Sam Wooding, already a veteran, opted to take his men — Tommy Ladnier and Gene Sedric among them — over to Berlin as members of a black revue. Charlie Johnson, for his part, set his sprits upon the about-to-be-opened Small's Paradise Club, an arrangement that evidently proved satisfactory to all concerned, since the band would remain a fixture there until 1937. But unlike Henderson, Ellington, Wooding and company, Johnson would not have the opportunity to make more than a handful of records, all of them within the period 1925-1929. Barely a dozen titles in all, 24 tracks when allowing for alternative takes, they fit comfortably onto the single CD you know have in your hands. Charles Wright Johnson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 21st 1891, and died in New York, at the age of 68, on December 13th 1959. Attracted by ragtime from an early age, he taught himself trombone, and was soon playing with various outfits around his then home-town of Lowell, Massachussetts. By 1914-15 he had launched himself upon the New York circuit, but subsequently studied in Atlantic City, where he formed his own group in 1918. Among his principal influences where the black big bands led by Jim Europe, Туm Brymn and Ford Dabney.However, it is interesting to note that of the four main black bandleader operatings
in New York during those earl days — Henderson, Wooding, Ellington and Johnson — only Henderson hailed from the south. Their music, therefore, at first no doubt reflected various New York brands of ragtime rather than the suppler, more emotional sounds that southern musicians would bring to the city around the mid-twenties. Yet southern influences had certainly taken a hold by the time Charlie Johnson inaugurated Small's Paradise on October 22nd 1925, as the orchestra's first two recordings amply testify. Gus Aiken, one of the trumpeters Earl Hines quotes as having most influenced his so-called trumpet-piano style, can be heard on both Don't Forget You'll Regret Day By Day and Meddlin' With the Blues. Bassist Cyrus Saint-Clair and saxophonist Ben Whitlet, both of whom would become long-serving members of the Johnson outfit, are also present on these first studio efforts by the band, recorded by a small local company. In the course of the ensuing four years — extremely fruitful years for the recording industry as a whole — an impressive string of top-notch
Tracklist:
New York City, c. February, 1925.
01. 2623-3 Don't Forget You'll Regret Day By Day [Emerson 10854] (*)
02. 2624-1 Meddlin' With The Blues [Emerson 10854] (*)
CHARLIE JOHNSON'S ORIGINAL PARADISE TEN
Jabbo Smith, Leonard Davis, Tom Morris (tp), Charlie Irvis (tb), Benny Carter (cl, ss, as, a), Ben Whittet (cl, as), Elmer Harrell (cl, ts), Charlie Johnson (p), Bobby Johnson (bj), Cyrus St. Clair (bb), George Stafford (dm), Monette Moore (vo).
New York City, February 25, 1927.
03. 38115-1 Paradise Wobble - vMM [Victor 20551] (*)
04. 38116-1 Birmingham Black Bottom - vMM [Victor 20551] (*)
05. 38116-2 Birmingham Black Bottom - vMM
06. 38117-1 Don't You Leave Me Here - vMM [Victor 20653] (*)
07. 38117-3 Don't You Leave Me Here - vMM
CHARLIE JOHNSON'S PARADISE TEN
Jabbo Smith, Leonard Davis (tp), Charlie Irvis (tb), Benny Carter (cl, ss, as, a), Edgar Sampson (as, vn), Elmer Harrell (cl, ts), Charlie Johnson (p), Bobby Johnson (bj), Cyrus St. Clair (bb), George Stafford (dm), Monette Moore (vo).
New York City, January 24, 1928.
08. 41639-1 You Ain't The One - vMM/aBC
09. 41639-2 You Ain't The One - vMM/aBC [Victor 21247] (*)
10. 41640-1 Charleston Is The Best Dance After All - aBC [Victor 21491] (*)
11. 41640-2 Charleston Is The Best Dance After All - aBC
12. 41641-1 Hot-Tempered Blues
13. 41641-2 Hot-Tempered Blues [Victor 21247] (*)
CHARLIE JOHNSON AND HIS PARADISE BAND (…. AND HIS ORCHESTRA on Bluebird)
Leonard Davis, Sidney de Paris (tp), Jimmy Harrison (tb), Ben Whittet (cl, as), Edgar Sampson (cl, as, vn), Ben Waters (cl, ts, a), Charlie Johnson (p), Bobby Johnson (bj), Cyrus St. Clair (bb), George Stafford (dm), unknown male (vo).
New York City, January 24, 1928.
XX. 47530-2 Gettin' Away From Me
14. 47531-1 The Boy In The Boat (The Rock) - aBW/v [Bluebird B-10248]
15. 47531-2 The Boy In The Boat (The Rock) - aBW/v [Victor 21712] (*)
16. 47532-1 Walk That Thing - aBW
17. 47532-2 Walk That Thing - aBW [Victor 21712] (*)
18. 47532-3 Walk That Thing - aBW [Bluebird B-10248]
JACKSON AND HIS SOUTHERN STOMPERS
Leonard Davis, Sidney de Paris (tp), Jimmy Harrison (tb), Ben Whittet (cl, as), Edgar Sampson (cl, as, vn), Ben Waters (cl, ts, a), Charlie Johnson (p), Bobby Johnson (bj), Cyrus St. Clair (bb), George Stafford (dm).
New York City, c. September, 1928.
19. 31339-2 Dusky Stevedore [Marathon 227]
20. 31340-2 Take Your Tomorrow (Give Me Today) [Marathon 227]
CHARLIE JOHNSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Leonard Davis, Sidney de Paris (tp), George Stevenson (tb), Ben Whittet, Edgar Sampson (cl, as), Ben Waters (cl, ts, a), Charlie Johnson (p), Bobby Johnson (bj), Billy Taylor (bb), George Stafford (dm).
New York City, May 8, 1929.
21. 51298-1 Harlem Drag
22. 51298-2 Harlem Drag [Victor V-38059] (*)
23. 51299-1 Hot Bones And Rice [Victor V-38059] (*)
24. 51299-2 Hot Bones And Rice
XX. 51300-2 Mo'lasses - aBW
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Charlie Johnson / The Complete Sessions (1925-1929)
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Charlie Johnson / The Complete Sessions (1925-1929)
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