Buster Bennett Trio - Don't Jive Me Baby on Columbia Records 37071 78RPM
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Buster Bennett Trio
Don't Jive Me Baby/I Want To Woogie Woogie
On Columbia Records 37071
78 RPM
Condition: VG, minor surface scuffs
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Born in Pensacola, Florida,[1] by 1930 or so, he was working in Texas, but spent most of his active career (1938 to 1954) in Chicago. He was employed as a session musician by Lester Melrose from 1938 to 1942; he played on recordings with Big Bill Broonzy, the Yas Yas Girl, Monkey Joe, and Washboard Sam.[3] Concomitantly he played on sessions with Jimmie Gordon under Sammy Price's direction.[2]
In 1944, the Buster Bennett Trio featured Arrington Thornton on piano and Duke Groner on bass.[2] Other lineups led by Bennett included Wild Bill Davis, Israel Crosby, and Pee Wee Jackson.[4]
In 1945, Bennett signed a three-year recording contract with Columbia Records; he was marketed as a Louis Jordan sound-alike. In early 1946, while under contract to Columbia, Bennett appeared, under the name of his trumpet player, Charles Gray, on a recording for the short-lived Chicago label, Rhumboogie.[5] He also made an unannounced appearance on a Red Saunders session on Sultan Records in 1946, and on a "tenor-battle" session with Tom Archia[2] for Aristocrat in 1947.
At the height of his popularity, in the late 1940s, he was known for his ability to draw customers into a South Side club - and for his cantankerous personality. On one occasion, he and Preston Jackson got into a fistfight at the Musicians Union hall, over a $2 debt.[2]
Bennett recorded his last session for Columbia in December 1947. By 1956 he was out of music, because of the loss of recording opportunities and his own failing health. He retired to Texas, where he lived out the remainder of his life. He died in Houston in 1980, at the age of 66.[2]
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