Bill Davison: Quadromania Jazz Edition

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Wild Bill Davison was one of the most exciting of Dixieland trumpeters/cornetists. His playing was full of personality, often ranging from sarcastic to sentimental, and he enjoyed hitting high notes at unexpected moments. A dramatic player, Davison stole the show whenever he played. Although he was playing professionally since the early 1920s, it was in the early 1940s that he began to emerge as a major force in trad music. He was one of the stars with Eddie Condon's freewheeling groups in addition to leading his own bands, never straying from the Dixieland and swing tunes that he loved to play.

The four-CD Quadromania set has many of the highpoints from Davison's 1943-52 recordings. With such fine players as trombonists George Brunies, Lou McGarity, Vernon Brown and Cutty Cutshall and clarinetists Pee Wee Russell, Edmond Hall, Tony Parenti and Joe Marsala, Davison is heard at the peak of his powers. Corn, clichés and recreations are absent in favor of colorful solos, lots of fireworks and very stimulating ensembles.

Listeners who are not familiar with the joys of Dixieland, the world's happiest music, are advised to start here with some of the very best by the great Wild Bill Davison.

—Scott Yanow

Contents

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Remastered!

CD 1 (TT: 54:28): At the Jazz Band Ball; That's a-Plenty; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home; Panama; Original Dixieland One-Step; Muskrat Ramble; Riverboat Shuffle; Clarinet Marmalade; Squeeze Me (Take One and Two); Royal Garden Blues (Take Five); That Da Da Strain (Take One); That Da Da Strain (Take Two); Carolina in the Morning (Take One); Carolina in the Morning (Take Two); Weary Blues.

CD 2 (TT: 53:28): Weary Blues (3 False Starts & Complete Take); I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You; A Monday Date; Jazz Me Blues; Little Girl; Squeeze Me; Sensation Rag; I'm Confessin' That I Love You; Big Butter and Egg Man; I Wish I Could Shimmy, Like My Sister Kate; Who's Sorry Now; Someday Sweetheart; On the Alamo; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Wabash Blues; I'm Coming Virginia; Wabash Blues.

CD 3 (TT: 52:46): Sensation; Hotter Than That; Tishomingo Blues; Big Butter and Egg Man; Eccentric; It's Right Here for You; None of My Jelly Roll; Avalon; Swinging Down the Lane; Clarinet Marmalade; As Long As I Live; St. Louis Blues; Shim-E-Sha-Wabble; Trombone Preachin' Blues; Dardanella; Skeleton Jangle.

CD 4 (TT: 59:15): Dippermouth Blues; Keepin' Out of Mischief Now; That Da Da Strain; Black and Blue; Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans; I Want to Be Happy; Medley: I Got it Bad/September Song/When Your Lover Has Gone; Singin' the Blues; Blue and Broken Hearted; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home; The Blues; Ole Miss; Fidgety Feet; Memphis Blues; Mandy, Make Up Your Mind; At the Jazz Band Ball.

Bill Davison, Trumpet; George Brunies, Lou McGarity, Vernon Brown, George Lugg, Jimmy Archey, Cutty Cutshall, Trombones; Edmond Hall, Pee Wee Russell, Tony Parenti, Joe Marsala, Albert Nicholas, Clarinets; Bill Miles, Baritone Sax; Gene Schroeder, Hank Duncan, Joe Sullivan, Ralph Sutton, James P. Johnson, Pianos; Eddie Condon, Danny Barker, Guitars; Bob Casey, Pops Foster, Jack Lesberg, Bill Goodall, Basses; George Wettling, Zutty Singleton, Danny Alvin, Dave Tough, Baby Dodds, Buzzy Drootin, Cliff Leeman, Drums.