Artist: Eddie Condon
Album: Bixieland
Genre: Dixieland, New Orleans Jazz
Label: Documents
Released: 1955/2005
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
1. At The Jazz Band Ball - 4:46
2. Ol' Man River - 3:31
3. I#ll Be A Friend With Pleasure - 2:50
4. Singin' The Blues - 4:20
5. Fidgety Feed - 5:11
6. From Monday On - 4:10
7. I'm Comin' Virginia - 2:56
8. Royal Garden Blues - 5:04
9. Louisiana - 3:11
10. Jazz Me Blues - 3:43
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Bixieland is the very best Dixieland album ever made. The liner notes refer to Pete Pesci on cornet, but it was not Pete, it was Bobby Hackett. Hackett was under contract to Capital so he could not appear on a Columbia release. So Condon made up the tale that it was Pesci, the night manager, on cornet. Bixieland is classic New Your Dixieland, a close cousin to the Chicago style. Those who prefer Bix should listen closely to Hackett on Singing the Blues. Wild Bill Davison does his usual growly stuff superbly, particularly on Old Man River. Ed Hall is so melodic on clarinet.
Every song is a major treat -- including the unusual Duff Campbell's Revenge, a tune written (apparently) by Turk Murphy, but never performed by the Condon mob until this album. Cutty Cutshall is great on trombone on this one. My favorite though is From Monday On.
Robert Ritter