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| 1. | Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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| 2. | I Can't Give You Anything But Love
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| 3. | Just One of Those Things
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| 4. | Madelon
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| 5. | Hallelujah
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| 6. | Poor Butterfly
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| 7. | Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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| 8. | The Lion Steps Out
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| 9. | When the Saints Go Marching In
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| 10. | Willie's Blues
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| 11. | Stop It Joe
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| 12. | The Romp
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| 13. | Background Music for a Cocktail Party
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| 14. | Carolina Shout
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| 15. | Hoity Toiti
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| 16. | The Lion's Theme [Charleston] (Echoes of Spring)
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| 17. | Old Fashioned Love
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| 18. | The Mule Walk
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| 19. | If I Could Be with You
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| 20. | Caprice Rag
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| 21. | A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid
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| 22. | Carolina Shout
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| 23. | Daintiness -- The Lion's Theme (Echoes of Spring)
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Jazz
Willie "The Lion" Smith - Piano, Soloist, Vocals
Cecil Scott - Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
Henry Goodwin - Trumpet
Jimmy Archey - Trombone
Myra Johnson - Vocals
Pops Foster - Bass
* Anatol Schenker - Liner Notes
* Charles Peterson - Cover Photo
* Duncan P. Schiedt - Photography
This sixth volume in the Classics Willie "The Lion" Smith chronology is packed with exceptionally fine music, beginning with seven Commodore piano solos recorded near the end of 1950. The Lion is in excellent form here -- his thunderously percussive rendition of Cole Porter's "Just One of Those Things" could serve as a sort of primal preface to Cecil Taylor's 1959 reconstitution of Porter's "Get Out of Town." The Lion's Blue Circle session of August 15, 1953, features a robust little band with a front line of trumpeter Henry Goodwin, trombonist Jimmy Archey, and reedman Cecil Scott. Myra Johnson, Fats Waller's feisty touring vocalist during the late '30s and early '40s, chips in with a rowdy reading of "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "Stop It, Joe," a James P. Johnson composition erroneously credited here to Willie "The Lion" Smith. The instrumental tracks from this session, "The Lion Steps Out," "Willie's Blues," and "The Romp," are wonderfully hot traditional jazz of the highest order. "Background Music for a Cocktail Party" has laughter and conversation running continuously in the background, and appears to be an early example of looped mood-adjustment overdubbing. This marvelous compilation closes with a pair of duets with drummer Keg Purnell and a veritable mini-album of eight piano solos based on melodies by James P. Johnson. This series begins and ends with Smith's masterpiece "Echoes of Spring," referred to here as "The Lion's Theme."
---arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide
Willie "The Lion" Smith
Active Decades: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Nov 25, 1897 in Goshen, NY
Died: Apr 18, 1973 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Classic Jazz, Piano Blues, Stride
Willie "The Lion" Smith in the 1920s was considered one of the big three of stride piano (along with James P. Johnson and Fats Waller) even though he made almost no recordings until the mid-'30s. His mother was an organist and pianist, and Smith started playing piano when he was six. He earned a living playing piano as a teenager, gained his nickname "the Lion" for his heroism in World War I, and after his discharge he became one of the star attractions at Harlem's nightly rent parties. Although he toured with Mamie Smith (and played piano on her pioneering 1920 blues record "Crazy Blues"), Smith mostly freelanced throughout his life. He was an influence on the young Duke Ellington (who would later write "Portrait of the Lion") and most younger New York-based pianists of the 1920s and '30s. Although he was a braggart and (with his cigar and trademark derby hat) appeared to be a rough character, Smith was actually more colorful than menacing and a very sophisticated pianist with a light touch. His recordings with his Cubs (starting in 1935) and particularly his 1939 piano solos for Commodore (highlighted by "Echoes of Spring") cemented his place in history. Because he remained very active into the early '70s (writing his memoirs -Music on My Mind in 1965), for quite a few decades Willie "the Lion" Smith was considered a living link to the glory days of early jazz.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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