Description
Mezz Mezzrow was a jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, bandleader and entrepreneur
Mezz Mezzrow was a jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, bandleader and entrepreneur, primarily associated with New Orleans and Dixieland jazz, whose career encompassed the decades before and after WWII, playing alongside some of the genre's biggest names and organizing many landmark recording sessions. This substantial 45-track collection draws from a significant proportion of the recording sessions in which he participated in the quarter century and more which it covers, selecting material which highlights his distinctive style as an ensemble player, soloist and leader. He was by no means a virtuoso musician but he was a vital catalyst in bringing together excellent orchestras and small groups, in the 1940s forming his own label King Jazz to release some of them. Some of his most notable work was with Sidney Bechet and Tommy Ladnier during this period, but over the years he worked with a host of major names, whose performances are featured here. It's an entertaining overview of the core career of one of the genre's colorful and influential personalities.
Track Listing
Disc 1:- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- I've Found A New Baby
- Baby, Won't You Please Come Home '
- Friar's Point Shuffle
- Jazz Me Blues
- Makin' Friends
- I'm Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee
- Dissonance
- Swingin' With Mezz
- Sendin' The Vipers
- 35th And Calumet
- How Can You Face Me '
- Sweetie Pie
- I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze
- Lost
- Mutiny In The Parlor
- I'se A Muggin'
- Blues In Disguise
- Hot Club Stomp
- The Swing Session's Called To Order
- Revolutionary Blues
- Swingin' For Mezz [Careless Love]
- Really The Blues
- When You And I Were Young, Maggie
- Royal Garden Blues
- I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly-Roll
- Gettin' Together
- Minor Jive
- Rompin' [Romping At Victor]
- Stop It Joe
- Mezzin' Around
- Some Of These Days
- Apex Blues
- House Party
- Perdido Street Stomp
- Minor Swoon
- Bowin' The Blues
- Jelly Roll
- Gone Away Blues
- Out Of The Gallion
- Fast Blues
- Clarinet Marmalade
- Revolutionary Blues No 2
- Clarinet Blues
- All Of Me
Additional Details
Label: Fabulous
Genre: Jazz
Language: English
Run Time: 140 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 05/06/16
UPC: 824046205720
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