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Eva Taylor & Clarence Williams - 1925 - 1926 - Label ID. FJ-121


Eva Taylor & Clarence Williams - 1925 - 1926 - Label ID. FJ-121

with his Blue Five Blue Seven Morocco Five Stompers

 
Description from the Sleeve -

The Recordings Eva Taylor-Clarence Williams 1925-1926


SIDE ONE

CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE FIVE

"Big Charlie Thomas" (cornet) Buster Bailey (clarinet) unknown alto Clarence Williams (piano). Buddy Christian (banjo) Eva Taylor (vocals). New York December 15 1925

73837-B Shake That Thing (Jackson) OK 8267
73838-B Get It Fixed (Williams) OK 8267


CLARENCE WILLIAMS' STOMPERS

Thomas Morris Bubber Miley (?) (cornets) Charlie Irvis (trombone) Don Redman (alto soprano) Coleman Hawkins (clarinet tenor baritone) Clarence Williams (?) (piano) Leroy Harris (?) (banjo) Cyrus St. Clair (brass bass).
New York January 4 • 1926

73893-B Spanish Shawl (Schoebel) OK 40541
73894-B Dinah {Akst) OK 40541


CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE FIVE

Bubber Miley (cornet) Jimmy Harrison or Charlie Irvis (trombone) Otto Hardwick (alto) Clarence Williams (piano) Leroy Harris (?) (banjo) Cyrus St. Clair (brass bass) unknown washboard Eva Taylor (vocals).
New York c. January 22 1926

73957-A I've Found A New Baby (Palmer-Williams) OK 8286
73958-B I've Found A New Baby (Palmer-Williams) OK 8286
73959-B Pile Of Logs And Stone (Called Home) (Pinkard) OK 8286


CLARENCE WILLIAMS' STOMPERS

Bubber Miley Thomas Morris (cornets) unknown trombone Ernest Elliott (?) (alto) Clarence Williams (piano) Leroy Harris (?) (banjo) Cyrus St. Clair (brass bass) Don Redman (vocal. Redman has been named as the clarinetist heard on these sides but aurally this is not so).

New York April 7 1926

74090-B JacKass Blues (Stitzel-Kassel) OK 40598
74091-A What's The Matter Now? (Williams-Williams) OK 40598


SIDE TWO

EVA TAYLOR accomp by CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE FIVE

(The instrumentation is cornet trombone clarinet piano and banjo. Eva Taylor is reported to have said that Clarence Williams at some time used personnel from the Jimmy Wade band and it has been suggested that the men on this session could be Jimmy Wade William Dover Clifford King Clarence Williams and Stan Wilson respectively. However other opinion is that the cornetist is "Big Charlie Thomas" and the trombonist Charlie Irvis).
New York c. August 6 1926

74243-B When The Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along (Woods) OK 40671
74244-B (There's A Blue Ridge In My Heart) Virginia (Bryan-Phillips-Shuster) „ OK 40671


EVA TAYLOR accomp by CLARENCE WILLIAMS' MOROCCO FIVE

{The instrumentation is clarinet/tenor alto/soprano violin piano and drums. Apart from Clarence Williams (piano) all is conjecture. Eddie South (vln) and Stan Wilson (bjo) have been suggested as have Arnett Nelson (clt/ts) and Clifford King (alto/sop)).
New York October 5 1926

74388 B Nobody But My Baby Is Getting My Love (Williams-Razaf) OK 8407
74389-B Morocco Blues (Williams-Jordan) OK 8407


EVA TAYLOR accomp by CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE SEVEN

Eva Taylor (voc.l Tommy Ladnier (cornet) Jimmy Harrison (trombone) Coleman Hawkins (tenor) Clarence Williams (piano) Leroy Harris (banjo). (An alto sax is heard which may be played by Hawkins. A clarinet is also present which does not appear to be Hawkins).
New York November 16 1926

80214-A Candy Lips (I'm Stuck On You) (Lauria-Jackson) OK 8414
80215-A Scatter Your Smiles (Kortlander-Wendling) OK 8414


CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE SEVEN

Tommy Ladnier (cornet) Jimmy Harrison (trombone) Buster Bailey (alto clarinet) Coleman Hawkins (clarinet tenor) Clarence Williams (piano) Leroy Harris (banjo) Cyrus St. Clair (brass bass).
New York December 10 1926 

74443-A Would Ja?(Sherwin) "OK 8443
74444-B Senegalese Stomp (Todd) OK 8443

 

ID. 100187 - Eva Taylor & Clarence Williams - 1925 - 1926 - Label ID. FJ-121

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