Track Listings (25) - Disc #1| All Artists: Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band Title: Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Archeophone Records Original Release Date: 12/14/2004 Release Date: 12/14/2004 Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop Styles: Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Dixieland Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 777215107045 |
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When he is talked about at all these days, it is mostly as the reflected glory of his association with Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, or other luminaries of the early jazz pantheon. But now, with the compilation of all of h... more » |
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Album Description When he is talked about at all these days, it is mostly as the reflected glory of his association with Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, or other luminaries of the early jazz pantheon. But now, with the compilation of all of his band's recordings from 1918 through 1920 on Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise, Wilbur Sweatman is finally getting the respect he has deserved for decades. Here are 25 tracks that chronicle the shift from ragtime to jazz and demonstrate Sweatman's seminal place in the development of the latter. At the same time, Sweatman's incredible clarinet pyrotechnics are on full display throughout. Jazzin' Straight Thru' Paradise features a 24-page booklet with extensive and illuminating notes by Steve Tracy, the noted scholar of the Harlem Renaissance, and over 74 minutes of the most exciting Dixieland-style music you'll find anywhere. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD Reviews"Paradise" is the word! Lee Hartsfeld | Central Ohio, United States | 01/28/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Marvelous early jazz easily on a par with the recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, though more big-band in style. I've been an enormous fan of Sweatman ever since hearing "Ringtail Blues" many years ago--"a ragtime orchestra gone berserk" was my description of this wonderful side. If only I'd gotten to hear the manic, drum-dominated "Oh! You La! La!" all those years ago, a side even more remarkable in its raggy jazzness than "Ringtail." And there is the remarkable Sweatman-penned jam number, "That's Got 'Em," which nearly qualifies as pre-1920 swing! There's a delightful kind of controlled sloppiness to the playing on these sides, a quality that is calculated and studied and always effective. I refer to a type of jazzy looseness that only the very best musicians can pull off. And these are great musicians. Bless Archeophone for giving us this priceless slice of jazz history. Get this one in your collection!"
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