Sugar Foot Stomp / King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators

こんばんはJazzy Isshiです。今夜は時代をさかのぼって1920年代のKing Oliver(1885-1938)の名演集です。

Sugar Foot Stomp / King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Decca Jazz Series MVCR-20004　

















1  Too Bad (Schobel-Meyers)
2  Snag It (Oliver)
3  Deep Henderson (Rose)
4  Jackass Blues (Kassell-Stizel)
5  Sugar Foot Stomp (Oliver)
6  Wa Wa Wa (Schaffer)
7  Tack Annie (Barbarin-Oliver)
8  Someday Sweetheart (Spikes-Spikes)
9  Dead Man Blues (Morton-Gonzales)
10 New Wang Wang Blues (Busse-Johnson-Muller)
11 Snag It (Oliver)
12 Doctor Jazz (Oliver-Melrose)
13 Showboat Shuffle (Bigard-Oliver)
14 Every Tub (Barbarin-Oliver)
15 Willie The Weeper (Rymal-Melrose-Bloom)
16 Black Snake Blues (Johnson-Spyvey)
17 Farewell Blues (Schobel-Meyers-Rappolo)
18 Sobbin' Blues (Kassell-Berton)
19 Tin Roof Blues (Rappolo-Mares-Pollack-Brunis-Stizel-Melrose)
20 West End Blues (Oliver-Williams)
21 Sweet Emmalina (Palmer-Razaf)
22 Lazy Man (Gifford-Gray)

1  1926 March 11
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Bob Shoffner(tp), Edward Kid Ory(tb), Albert Nicholas, Billy Page(cl,ss,as), Barnie Bigard(cl,ss,ts), Luis Russell(p), Bud Scott(bjo), Bert Cobb(tuba), Paul Barbarin(ds)

2  1926 March 11
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Bob Shoffner(tp), Edward Kid Ory(tb), Albert Nicholas, Billy Page(cl,ss,as), Barnie Bigard(cl,ss,ts), Richard M. Jones(p), Bud Scott(bjo), Bert Cobb(tuba), Paul Barbarin(ds)

3  1926 April 21,
4  1926 April 23,
5,6  1926 May 29
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Bob Shoffner(tp), Edward Kid Ory(tb), Albert Nicholas, Billy Page(cl,ss,as), Barnie Bigard(cl,ss,ts), Luis Russell(p), Bud Scott(bjo), Bert Cobb(tuba), Paul Barbarin(ds,vo), Georgia Taylor(vo on 4)

7  1926 July 23
9,10,11  1926 September 17
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Bob Shoffner(tp), Edward Kid Ory(tb), Paul "Stump" Evans, Durnell Howard(cl,ss,as), Barnie Bigard(cl,ss,ts), Luis Russell(p), Bud Scott(bjo), Bert Cobb(tuba), Paul Barbarin(ds)

8  1926 September 17
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Bob Shoffner(tp), Edward Kid Ory(tb), Paul "Stump" Evans, Durnell Howard(cl,ss,as), Johnny Dodds(cl), Barnie Bigard(cl,ss,ts), Luis Russell(p), Bud Scott(bjo), Bert Cobb(tuba), Paul Barbarin(ds)

12,13,14,15  1927 April 22
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Thomas "Tick" Grey (tp), Edward Kid Ory(tb), Omer Simeon(cl,ss,as),  Barnie Bigard(cl,ss,ts), Luis Russell(p), Bud Scott(bjo), Bert Cobb(tuba), Paul Barbarin(ds)

16  1927 April 27
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Thomas "Tick" Grey (tp), Edward Kid Ory(tb), Omer Simeon(cl,ss,as),  Barnie Bigard(cl,ss,ts), Luis Russell(p), Bud Scott(uncertain)(bjo), Bert Cobb(tuba), Paul Barbarin(ds)

17,18  1927 November 18
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Jimmy Archy(tb), Paul Barnes(cl,ss,as), unknown other tp,cl,ts, p,bjo,tuba,ds

19,20,21,22  1928 June 11  New York
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators
Joe "King" Oliver(cor,ldr), Jimmy Archy(tb), (cl,ss,as), Ernest Elliott(cl,as), Arville Harris(cl,ts),  Clarence Williams(p,vo), LeroyHarris(bjo), Cyrus St. Clair(tuba)

これらが録音された1926-28年はOliver は41-43歳でした。ちょうど、自己のバンドの第2コルネット奏者にニューオリンズから呼び寄せたLouis Armstrongが台頭してきた時期にあたります。Oliverは次第に歯を悪くしてバンドは率いてもソロは減らしていったと伝えられます。1930年代にかけてさらに凋落し、ついには1938年53歳の若さで生涯を閉じます。

ここでは、そんな逸話が本当だったのか？と思わせる快演を聞かせています。このCDは名盤集なので、平均より良い演奏が収められているのでしょうが、それを差し引いても、さすがはBuddy Bolden(1877-1931)、Freddie Keppard(1889-1933)に継ぐ第3代目Jazz王だと思わせる演奏です。

Oliverの演奏は、録音の無いBoldenとは比べようもありませんが、Keppardと比べてもニュアンスに富んだ繊細な感じがします。mute playを得意にしていたのも頷けます。