Label: Retrospective 2014
Another superb jazz release from Retrospective! Trombonist Wilbur De Paris (1900-1973) had a long apprenticeship, with Duke Ellington among others, before he was able to express his own ideas with his own band, but his golden years of the 50s, enshrined on these two Retrospective CDs, genuinely extended the boundaries of traditional jazz. For him, jazz was never history; it was a living art and as hot as mustard. His New Orleans Jazz was always ‘New’. From his series of highly acclaimed original LPs we have selected the 38 finest tracks 2 hours 38 minutes of the most invigorating jazz. Magnificent trombonist though he was, the great strengths of De Paris’ ‘New’ New Orleans Jazz lay in the coming together of a supremely talented group of musicians. These included two remarkable trumpeters, his brother Sidney De Paris and Doc Cheatham. Then there was the superlative clarinet of Omer Simeon (late of Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers), replaced after his death by the almost-as-good Garvin Bushell. Wilbur De Paris’ declared aim was ‘to play as the early New Orleans masters would if they were alive today’. His choice of repertoire goes beyond imaginative renditions of the jazz standards to encompass an enormous range of material. Certainly the music itself is ‘alive today’ here is the most exuberant, happy jazz that still sounds ‘New’.
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Track list
CD 1
01 Hindustan Oliver Wallace / Harold Weeks 3:14
02 Shreveport Stomps Jelly Roll Morton 2:59
03 Tres moutarde (Too Much Mustard) Cecil Maclin 3:14
04 Martinique Wilbur De Paris 5:17
05 Milenberg Joys Jelly Roll Morton 7:17
06 Flow Gently, Sweet Afton Jonathan Spilman 4:49
07 Hot Lips Henry Busse / Benny Davis 4:56
08 Are You From Dixie? George L.Cobb 4:58
09 Madagascar Wilbur De Paris 5:28
10 Juba Dance R.Nathaniel Dett 2:24
11 Toll Gate Blues Wilbur De Paris 7:05
12 Wrought Iron Rag Wilbur De Paris 5:53
13 Big Fine Girl Jimmy Witherspoon 2:00
14 Can-Can: It’s all right with me Cole Porter 4:39
15 Jubilee: Begin the Beguine Cole Porter 4:21
16 Beale Street Blues W.C.Handy 3:11
17 Muskrat Ramble Kid Ory 4:33
Time: 78:18
CD 2
01 Panama William Tyers 5:44
02 Madeira Wilbur De Paris 3:14
03 Banjolie Wilbur De Paris 1:57
04 Waiting for the Robert E. Lee L. Wolfe Gilbert / Lewis F. Muir 4:48
05 Frankie And Johnnie Traditional 3:50
06 Colonel Bogey’s Kenneth J. Alford 3:39
07 Watching Dreams Go By Solon Gonsalves 2:38
08 Hesitating Blues W.C.Handy 2:29
09 That’s a Plenty Ray Gilbert / Lew Pollack 3:26
10 Change O’Key Boogie Wilbur De Paris 6:08
11 Mack The Knife Marc Blitzstein / Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill 3:10
12 Creole Love Call Duke Ellington 3:30
13 Tell ’em ’bout Me Sidney Easton 2:55
14 When My Sugar Walks Down the Street Gene Austin / Jimmy McHugh / Irving Mills 2:46
15 Twelfth Street Rag Euday L. Bowman 3:33
16 Blues Ingee Wilbur De Paris 5:30
17 Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble Spencer Williams 2:55
18 St. Louis Blues W.C. Handy 8:01
19 How Ya Gonna Keep ’em Down on the Farm? Walter Donaldson 1:47
20 Just a Closer Walk With Thee Traditional 3:52
21 Royal Garden Blues Clarence & Spenser Williams 2:46
Time: 79:29
Personnel: Wilbur De Paris (trombone); Doc Cheatham (trumpet); Sidney De Paris (cornet); Omer Simeon (clarinet); Wilbert Harris (harmonica, drums); Sonny White (piano); Lee Blair (banjo); Hayes Alvin, Bennie Moten (bass).
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