ART HODES Complete Blue Note Sessions Mosaic 5 LP box set Baby Dodds Pops Foster

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ART HODES

The Complete Blue Sessions

Limited edition vinyl 5 LP box set. Mosaic Records  MR5 114. Mono. Mosaic limited edition of  7500. Booklet in excellent condition & box is in strong VG+ condition, some corner & edge wear. VINYL: strong VG++ to NM- light surface scratch on Side 3 & Side 5.

"For a complete study of the jazz musician, there is absolutely nothing in any record store that can compete with, or come close to, a Mosaic set."

- Jules Epstein, Philadelphia Tribune

From 1944-45, pianist Art Hodes led nine sessions for Blue Note in addition to being a featured sideman on a quartet date headed by drummer Baby Dodds. This limited edition five-LP box set from Mosaic has all 70 selections, including ten that were previously unissued. Hodes, a veteran of 1920s Chicago who later received recognition for his blues playing, loved playing Dixieland and classic jazz. In settings ranging from a trio to a septet, Hodes inspires and interacts with some of the top trad jazz players of the mid-1940s, including trumpeters Max Kaminsky and (on one session) Wild Bill Davison; trombonists Ray Conniff, Sandy Williams, and Vic Dickenson; clarinetists Rod Cless, Edmond Hall, Mezz Mezzrow, Omer Simeon, and Albert Nicholas; the great soprano innovator Sidney Bechet; bassists Bob Haggart, Israel Crosby, Pops Foster, and Wellman Braud; and drummers Dodds, Danny Alvin, and Fred Moore, among others. The music overall is generally straightforward Dixieland with plenty of exciting ensembles and hot solos. A collector's item that (typically for Mosaic) was perfectly conceived.

Review by Scott Yanow

 

Track Listing

Title/Composer



1 Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin


2 Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin


3 She's Crying for Me Santo Pecora


4 Yellow Dog Blues W.C. Handy


5 Slow 'Em Down Blues Art Hodes


6 Doctor Jazz Walter Melrose / King Oliver


7 Shoe Shiner's Drag Jelly Roll Morton


8 There'll Be Some Changes Made Billy Higgins / W. Benton Overstreet


9 There'll Be Some Changes Made Billy Higgins / W. Benton Overstreet


10 Clark and Randolph Art Hodes


11 M. K Blues


12 M. K Blues


13 Low Down Blues Spencer Williams


14 Jug Head Boogie Art Hodes


15 Jug Head Boogie Art Hodes


16 S.C.H. Blues Art Hodes


17 Back Room Blues Pete Johnson


18 Sweet Georgia Brown Ben Bernie / Kenneth Casey / Maceo Pinkard


19 Squeeze Me Fats Waller / Clarence Williams


20 Squeeze Me Fats Waller / Clarence Williams


21 Sugar Foot Stomp Louis Armstrong / King Oliver


22 Bugle Call Rag Billy Meyers / Jack Pettis / Elmer Schoebel


23 Bugle Call Rag Billy Meyers / Jack Pettis / Elmer Schoebel


24 Gut Bucket Blues Louis Armstrong


25 Apex Blues Jimmie Noone


26 Shake That Thing Papa Charlie Jackson


27 Shake That Thing Papa Charlie Jackson


28 (Back Home Again In) Indiana James F. Hanley / Ballard MacDonald


29 Nobody's Sweetheart Ernie Erdman / Gus Kahn / Billy Meyers / Elmer Schoebel


30 Nobody's Sweetheart Ernie Erdman / Gus Kahn / Billy Meyers / Elmer Schoebel


31 K.M. H Drag (Draggin' the Blues) Art Hodes


32 Funny Feathers Ruth Naomi Floyd / Victoria Spivey


33 Blues 'N Booze Art Hodes


34 That Eccentric Rag John Robinson


35 That Eccentric Rag John Robinson


36 Chicago Gal


37 I Never Knew What a Gal Could Do Elmer Schoebel


38 Mr. Jelly Lord Jelly Roll Morton


39 At the Jazz Band Ball Eddie Edwards / Nick LaRocca / Henry W. Ragas / Tony Sbarbaro / Larry Shields


40 Wolverine Blues Jelly Roll Morton / Benjamin Franklin Spikes / John Spikes


41 Milenberg Joys Paul Mares / Walter Melrose


42 Walk on Down


43 Willie the Weeper Marty Bloom / Walter Melrose / Grant Rymal


44 Willie the Weeper Marty Bloom / Walter Melrose / Grant Rymal


45 None of My Jelly Roll Clarence Williams / Spencer Williams


46 Blues for Jelly Art Hodes


47 Blues for Jelly Art Hodes


48 Beale Street Blues W.C. Handy


49 Jack Daily Blues


50 None of My Jelly Roll Clarence Williams / Spencer Williams


51 Save It, Pretty Mama Joe Davis / Paul Denniker / Don Redman


52 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Henry Creamer / Turner Layton


53 Memphis Blues W.C. Handy / George Norton


54 Shine Lew Brown / Ford Dabney / Cecil Mack


55 St. James Infirmary Joe Primrose / Traditional


56 Infirmary


57 The Darktown Strutters' Ball Shelton Brooks


58 The Darktown Strutters' Ball Shelton Brooks


59 Feelin' at Ease Albert Nicholas


60 Careless Love W.C. Handy / Martha E. Koenig / Spencer Williams


61 High Society Armand Piron / Clarence Williams


62 High Society Armand Piron / Clarence Williams


63 Winin' Boy Blues Jelly Roll Morton


64 Careless Love W.C. Handy / Martha E. Koenig / Spencer Williams

 

 

 

 

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