Sidney Bechet and Mezz Mezzrow with various personnel. Recorded 1945-1947. Compilation produced by Anders Stefansen ; notes by Chris Albertson. Compact discs. Booklet with program notes by Chris Albertson (15 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Contents:
disc 1.In a Mezz -- Mezzrow talks -- Those mellow blues -- Gully low blues -- Cow cow blues -- 133rd Street boogie -- Mezzrow talks -- I finally gotcha -- Boogin' with Mezz -- Callin' 'em home -- Step down, step up -- Shakin' loose (2 versions) -- Broken man blues -- New jailhouse blues -- House party (2 versions) -- Perdido Street stomp (2 versions) -- Revolutionary blues, part 1-2 -- Mezzrow talks -- Blood on the moon -- Levee blues -- Mezzrow talks -- Layin' my rules in blues -- Bad, bad baby blues (2 versions) -- disc 2. Mezzrow talks -- Saw mill blues -- Minor swoon (3 versions) -- The sheik of Araby (2 versions) -- Boogin' with Big Sid -- Mezzrow talks -- Baby, I'm cuttin' out (3 versions) -- Ole Miss (2 versions) -- Bowin' the blues (2 versions) -- Jelly roll (3 versions) -- Perdido Street stomp (2 versions) -- Bars of blues -- Forgotten harmony -- Revolutionary blues -- disc 3. Mezzrow talks -- Gone away blues -- De luxe stomp -- Mezzrow talks -- Out of the Gallion (3 versions) -- Mezzrow talks -- Breathless blues -- Mezzrow talks -- Really the blues, part 1-2 (2 versions each) -- Mezzrow talks -- Fat Mama blues -- Mezzrow talks -- You got to give it to me -- Hey daddy blues -- Whoop this wolf away from my door (3 versions) -- Mezzrow talks -- You can't do that to me -- Groovin' the minor (2 versions) -- disc 4. Where am I (3 versions) -- Mezzrow talks -- Tommy's blues (2 versions) -- Chicago function part 1-2 (2 versions each) -- Mezzrow talks -- I want some (2 versions) -- Mezzrow talks -- I'm speaking my mind (3 versions) -- disc 5. I'll never forget the blues (2 versions) -- Mezzrow talks -- The blues and Freud, part 1-2 -- Kaiser's last break (2 versions) -- I'm goin' away from here (2 versions) -- I got you some -- I must have my boogie -- Funky butt (2 versions) -- Delta mood (2 versions) -- Mezzrow talks -- Blues of the roaring twenties (2 versions) -- Caravan.
Summary:
The entire output of the King Jazz label which was formed by Mezz Mezzrow, on five discs. With Hot Lips Page, Sammy Price, Danny Barker, and George Pops Foster and others.
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