Louisiana Rhythm Kings - 1929-1930 (2003)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 185 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 170 MB | Covers (7 MB) included
Genre: Early Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, Swing | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Classics Records (CLASSICS1313)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 185 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 170 MB | Covers (7 MB) included
Genre: Early Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, Swing | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Classics Records (CLASSICS1313)
Like the Charleston Chasers, the Louisiana Rhythm Kings existed entirely as a studio recording ensemble. The time frame is even the same; both bands operated during those fascinatingly pivotal years of 1929 and 1930. The Louisiana Rhythm Kings were at first nothing more or less than a variable version of Red Nichols & His 5 Pennies, or in the case of the sessions recorded February 20 and April 23, 1929, the last vestiges of Red & Miff's Stompers. Miff Mole's trombone acted as the gravitational center of most every band he ever worked with, while Red was usually the next best thing to his idol, Bix Beiderbecke. Some of the players on the first three selections are holdovers from the Stompers sessions of several years earlier…