Ted Lewis
The Jazzworthy Ted Lewis
- Type CD
- Label Retrieval
- UPC 0608917901429
- Catalog number RTR 79014
- Release date 26 December 2012
About the album
First release in 1997.
Known as "The High Hat Tragedian of Jazz", Ted Lewis was a major bandleader in America from 1920 into the '50s. His own eccentric vocals and "gaspipe" styled clarinet and alto sax playing were largely the antithesis of jazz and yet, pardoxically, he loved the music and always led bands stuffed with top line jazzmen to whom he gave a surprising degree of freedom to show off their skills.
In this collection will be found sterling work by the likes of Muggsy Spanier, George Brunies, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Frank Teschmacher and even Fats Waller. Such titles as "Royal Garden Blues" and "Dip your brush in the sunshine" are worthy of a place on any jazz collector's shelf.
Transfers are by John R.T. Davies and notes by Lewis specidist and noted jazz writer Mark Berresford, editor of "Vintage Jazz Mart". Not to be missed.
"...Spanier... is magnificent... cherrypicks the best of Lewis' later Columbio Sessions.. Top notch transfers"
Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
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11Farewell Blues
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12Wabash Blues
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13San
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14The Lonesome Road
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15Aunt Hagar's Blues
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16Singing a vagabond song
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17Somebody stole my gal
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18The yellow dog blues
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19Sobbin' blues
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110Sobbin' blues
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111Laughing At Life
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112Headin' for better times
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113Egyptian Ella
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114I'm Crazy 'bout my baby
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115Dallas Blues
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116Royal Garden Blues
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117DipYour Brush In The Sunshine
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118One more time
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119Ho Hum!
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120Somebody loves you
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121I'm sure of everything but you
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122Here you come with love