WOW AUTOGRAPHED THOMAS MORRIS MASTERS 78 OKEH 4867 EX
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Description
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!!
AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS 1923 ULTRA-RARITY FROM THOMAS MORRIS PAST JAZZ MASTERS - AUTOGRAPHED BY THE BAND?!! - Clarence Williams etc
Thomas Morris
- Genre: Jazz
- Active: '20s
- Instrument: Cornet
Biography
A primitive but often effective cornet soloist, Thomas Morris (the uncle of pianist Marlowe Morris) made quite a few records during the 1923-27 period although his style was considered quite dated after the rise of Louis Armstrong. Morris was based in New York from the beginning of the 1920s. He recorded with his Past Jazz Masters (eight titles during 1923) and his Hot Babies (ten songs plus nine alternate takes that comprise the best work of his career), Clarence Williams, Charlie Johnson(1927), Fats Waller (1927) and many blues singers. However, Morris slipped away into obscurity in the 1930s. He worked as a red cap at Grand Central Station in the late 1930s and then became religious, re-emerging as Brother Pierre in Father Divine's religious sect shortly before he passed away
Not much is known about who is playing on this record and perhaps the autographs in wax pencil on the run-out of this record give us a clue... Some match up with what is known and some appear to give new information......
The autographs are
C. WILLIAMS - (CLARENCE WILLIAMS - PIANO)
T. MORRIS - (THOMAS MORRIS - CORNET)
CALDWELL - (HAPPY CALDWELL - TENOR SAX)
Bailey - ????
allen - ????
There is now way of telling ABSOLUTELY whether these autographs are genuine or not - but knowing this collection they probably are....!!! and the only other autograph I have found of Clarence Williams matches up .....
DISC DETAILS:
OKEH 4867 CONDITION - EX
A SIDE:- LONESOME JOURNEY BLUES (Thomas Morris)
B SIDE:- WHEN THE JAZZ BAND STARTS TO PLAY (Thomas Morris)
RECORDED NEW YORK APRIL 1923
AN ULTRA RARE RECORD IN ANY CONDITION - IN THIS EXCELLENT CONDITION AND WITH THESE AUTOGRAPHS THIS RECORD IS PRICELESS!!!!!
DON'T MISS OUT - BID NOW!!!!
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