Rare & Unissued Masters 1945-1949

by Wooden Joe Nicholas

Overview

American Music's second collection of Wooden Joe Nicholas sides finds a few rare and unheard cuts from the 1945 and 1949 sessions that comprised their first CD from 1992, but this 2013 CD also unearths some tracks cut on other days in 1945 and 1949 (the earlier year has a handful of recordings made in George Lewis' home on May 17 while Wooden Joe's own home was where the July 6 and 7, 1949 material was recorded). A total of nine of the 21 tracks here are previously unreleased, while the rest are relatively hard to come by and they're all cut from the same cloth: spirited old-fashioned New Orleans jazz so straight-ahead it can sometimes seem primitive. Perhaps there isn't much technique here, but the ragged barrelheadedness is appealing as there is spirit here: it sounds like a bunch of old guys sitting around their back porch playing songs they know by heart because that is exactly what it is. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	07/16/2013
Label:	American Music
UPC:	0762247113621
Rank:	124560

Tracks

1. St. Louis Blues
2. Careless Love
3. Shake It and Break It (Weary Blues)
4. Eh la Bas
5. Up Jumped the Devil
6. Don't Go 'Way Nobody
7. I Ain't Got Nobody
8. St. Louis Blues
9. Eh la Bas
10. Up Jumped the Devil
11. Mo Pas Lemme Ca (Creole Song/Ai-Ai-Ai)
12. Untitled March
13. Bunk's Blues
14. Bye and Bye
15. (No) Holler Blues
16. Up Jumped the Devil
17. My Josephine (Some of These Days)
18. Any Rags
19. Where He Leads Me
20. Sugar Blues
21. Climax Rag

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Wooden Joe Nicholas   Primary Artist,Trumpet,Vocals
Wooden Joe's New Orleans Band   Primary Artist
Ann Cook   Primary Artist,Vocals
Original Creole Stompers   Primary Artist
Johnny St. Cyr   Vocals,Guitar
Albert Glenny   String Bass
Albert Burbank   Vocals,Clarinet
Baby Dodds   Drums
Louis Nelson   Trombone
Jim Robinson   Trombone
Albert Jiles   Drums
Slow Drag Pavageau   String Bass
Louis "Big Eye" Delisle   Clarinet
Lawrence Marrero   Banjo
Austin Young   String Bass
Louis Keppard   Guitar

Technical Credits

A. Matthews   Composer
R. Graham   Composer
Trevor Richards   Producer,Liner Notes,Coordination
George H. Buck, Jr.   Executive Producer
George Bucks Jr.   Liner Notes
Lucy Fletcher   Composer
Parker Dinkins   Transfers
W.C. Handy   Composer
Billy Russell   Engineer
Traditional   Composer
E.W. Blandy   Composer
David Stocker   Mastering,Editing