Chicago jazz

This article describes a music album. For the music style of the same name in English, see Chicago jazz .

Chicago jazz
Studio album by various artists
Publication (s)	1940
Label (s)	Decca
Format (s)	78 album, LP
Genre (s)	jazz
Title (number)	12
occupation	see article
production	George Avakian
Studio (s)	New York City , Chicago

Chicago Jazz is the title of a compilation that producer George Avakian released on Decca Records on March 21, 1940 . The album in the form of six shellac records is considered the first album in the history of jazz ; for the first time new material was produced and presented especially for a jazz album.

background

While studying at Yale University , Avakian led a campaign by sending letters to record bosses complaining about the lack of unlimited jazz albums. Eventually Avakian was able to convince the record label Decca Records to let him record an album himself. During a series of recording sessions, music was created that was not, as previously, aimed at being produced specifically for marketing in the form of 78s . The album Chicago Jazz (released March 1940 as Decca 121 ) contained the music of Eddie Condon , Pee Wee Russell , Jimmy McPartland and George Wettling , who were representative of the Chicago jazz scene in the late 1920s .

The album is also one of the first examples of adding liner notes to record releases ; Avakian wrote a twelve-page booklet for Chicago Jazz that gave listeners information about the music of Chicago Jazz. Avakian later said about his ideas for the production of the album:

I was inspired by the recordings Milt Gabler made at Commodore . But I thought to myself, 'Gee, why don't they play the way they did ten years or so earlier?' So I said to Eddie Condon, one of the things I want to do is put in the old Chicago flares. Everybody jump in on the last two bars of a chorus and give a springboard to the next soloist. Or give a big roar into the last chorus and then drop down on the middle eight, that sort of thing. So they were delighted to do it .

List of titles

George Wettling in the ABC studio, New York City, ca. May 1947. Photo by William P. Gottlieb

• Plate 1: Eddie Condon and His Chicagoans: Nobody's Sweetheart - Friar's Point Shuffle
• Plate 2: Eddie Condon and His Chicagoans: There'll Be Some Changes Made - Someday, Sweetheart
  • Eddie Condon and His Chicagoans : Max Kaminsky (tp), Brad Gowans (v-tb), Pee Wee Russell (cl), Bud Freeman (ts), Joe Sullivan (p), Eddie Condon (git), Clyde Newcombe (kb) , Dave Tough (dr)
• Plate 3: Jimmy McPartland and His Orchestra: China Boy - Jazz Me Blues
• Plate 4: Jimmy McPartland and His Orchestra: Sugar - The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
  • Jimmy McPartland and His Orchestra : Jimmy McPartland (cnt), Bud Jacobson (cl), Boyce Brown (as), Floyd Bean (p), Dick McPartland (git), Jim Lannigan (kb), Hank Isaacs (dr)
• Plate 5: George Wettling's Chicago Rhythm Kings: Bugle Call Rag - I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
• Plate 6: George Wettling's Chicago Rhythm Kings: The Darktown Strutters' Ball - I've Found a New Baby
  • George Wettling's Chicago Rhythm Kings : Charlie Teagarden (tp), Floyd O'Brien (tb), Danny Polo (cl), Joe Marsala (ts), Jess Stacy (p), Jack Bland (git), Artie Shapiro (kb), George Wettling (dr).

The recordings under the direction of Eddie Condon (plates 1 & 2) were made on August 11, 1939 in New York City; the recordings under the direction of Jimmy McPartland on October 11, 1939 in Chicago. The recordings were made on January 16, 1940 in New York under the direction of George Wettling. The recordings were first published as a long-playing record in 1954 (Decca DL 8029).

Web links

• Chicago Jazz at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series. 1941
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Harrison Smith: George Avakian, groundbreaking jazz producer and record executive, dies at 98th Washington Post , November 23, 2017, accessed December 5, 2017 . 
3. ^ Bill Kirchner : The Oxford Companion to Jazz . 2006, p. 766
4. ^ William Howland Kenney: Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930 . New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
5. ↑ In Memoriam: Producer George Avakian. Down Beat , December 4, 2017, accessed December 5, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts , edited by Luca Cerchiari, Laurent Cugny , Franz Kerschbaumer . Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012.
7. ↑ According to Tom Lord : Jazz Discography (online)