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Norrie Cox New Orleans Stompers – Dance Hall Days
Norrie Cox New Orleans Stompers – Dance Hall Days Delmark DE 236 Compact Disc (1999) Norrie Cox grew up in England, where his interest in New Orleans music grew during the late `50s and early `60s when New Orleans-styled jazz topped the English pop charts. Inspired by the great clarinetists Johnny Dodds and George Lewis,…
Franz Jackson & The Salty Dogs – Yellow Fire
Franz Jackson & The Salty Dogs – Yellow Fire Delmark DE 237 Compact Disc (2001) Franz is one of the few active musicians who was there when jazz was an infant. He’s been playing professionally for more than seventy years and is one of the great tenor sax players of all time. Franz has led…
Art Hodes – Tribute To The Greats
Art Hodes – Tribute To The Greats Delmark DE 238 [Euphonic Series] Compact Disc (2004) Art Hodes’ career as pianist (and journalist) started in the ’20s and continued into the ’90s, eight decades! He recorded for Blue Note, Decca, Mercury as well as what he liked to call “the modest labels”. These blues-drenched solo piano…
The Original Salty Dogs – New Orleans Shuffle
The Original Salty Dogs – New Orleans Shuffle Delmark DE 240 Compact Disc (2001) This is the third CD to appear on Delmark with The Original Salty Dogs. On the first they supported Clancy Hayes (Delmark 210), on the second Franz Jackson (Delmark 237). The OSD are generally classified as a West Coast revivalist, traditional…
Norrie Cox – Live at Illiana
Norrie Cox – Live at Illiana Delmark DE 241 Compact Disc (2002) As a young man in England Norrie Cox led his own outfit, the San Jacinto Jazz Band, during the trad boom of the late ’50s and early ’60s. Cox moved to the U.S. in ’66 but it wasn’t until 1989 that he, along…
Kansas City Frank Melrose – Bluesiana
Kansas City Frank Melrose – Bluesiana Delmark DE 245 (2006) Compact Disc Pianist Frank Melrose was the younger brother of music publishers and agents Walter and Lester Melrose, who ran Melrose Brothers music store in Chicago and were very involved in the business end of the Chicago jazz and blues scene of the ’20s and…
Dewey Jackson – Live At The Barrel, 1952 (feat. Don Ewell)
Dewey Jackson – Live at the Barrel 1952 (feat. Don Ewell) Delmark DE 246 Compact Disc (2006) With Don Ewell, piano; Frank Chace, clarinet; Sid Dawson, trombone; and Booker T. Washington, drums. The release of this CD should transform St. Louis’ legendary trumpet player, Dewey Jackson, from a footnote to his rightful place in jazz…
Mike Walbridge’s Chicago Footwarmers – Crazy Rhythm
Mike Walbridge’s Chicago Footwarmers – Crazy Rhythm Delmark DE 247 Compact Disc (2007) Traditional jazz tubaist Mike Walbridge has been active on the Chicago scene for forty five years as leader of The Chicago Footwarmers and a member of the Chicago Salty Dogs. Clarinetist/alto saxist Kim Cusack has been jamming with Mike since their teens!…
