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| 1. | Thick Lip Stomp
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| 2. | Harmony Blues
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| 3. | Kansas City Shuffle
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| 4. | Yazoo Blues
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| 5. | White Lightnin' Blues
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| 6. | Muscle Shoals Blues
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| 7. | Midnight Mama
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| 8. | Missouri Wobble
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| 9. | Sugar
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| 10. | Dear Heart
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| 11. | The New Tulsa Blues
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| 12. | Baby Dear
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| 13. | 12th Street Rag
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| 14. | Pass out Lightly
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| 15. | Ding-Dong Blues
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| 16. | Moten Stomp
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Jazz
Bennie Moten - Arranger, Director, Piano
Ed Lewis - Cornet
Harlan Leonard - Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
Jack Washington - Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone), Saxophone
Laforest Dent - Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor), Vocals
Lammar Wright, Jr. - Cornet
Leroy Berry - Banjo
Paul Webster - Cornet
Sam Tall - Banjo
Thamon Hayes - Trombone, Vocals
Vernon Page - Brass Band
Willie McWashington - Drums
Woodie Walder - Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
* Brian Rust - Liner Notes
* Frank Greene - Coordination
* John R.T. Davies - Transfers
One of the most important and influential of the so-called territory bands in the early '20s, pianist Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra played mostly in the region around their namesake city, specializing in lively ragtime-based numbers that edged into nascent swing. In time the ensemble morphed into the first of Count Basie's bands, but not before recording regularly under Moten's name. This fun set features sides recorded in 1926 and 1927 for Victor Records, and includes the lilting and slurred horn harmonies of "Harmony Blues," the infectious, skipping "Missouri Wobble," "Sugar," and the energetic title tune, "Moten Stomp." A nice introduction to a vital band.
--- Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
Bennie Moten
Active Decades: '20s and '30s
Born: Nov 13, 1894 in Kansas City, MO
Died: Apr 02, 1935 in Kansas City, MO
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Classic Jazz
Bennie Moten is today best-remembered as the leader of a band that partly became the nucelus of the original Count Basie Orchestra, but Moten deserves better. He was a fine ragtime-oriented pianist who led the top territory band of the 1920s, an orchestra that really set the standard for Kansas City jazz. In fact it was so dominant that Moten was able to swallow up some of his competitors' groups including Walter Page's Blue Devils, most of whom eventually became members of Moten's big band. Moten formed his group (originally a sextet) in 1922 and the following year they made their first recordings. Among Moten's 1923-25 sides for Okeh was the original version of his greatest hit "South." During 1926-32 Moten's Orchestra recorded for Victor and, although none of his original musicians became famous, the later additions included his brother Buster on occasional jazz accordion, Harlan Leonard, Jack Washington, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing, Hot Lips Page and (starting in 1929) Count Basie. So impressed was Moten by Basie's playing that Count assumed the piano chair for recordings from that point on (although in clubs Moten would generally play a feature or two). The most famous Bennie Moten recording session was also his last, ten songs cut on December 13, 1932 that find the ensemble strongly resembling Basie's five years later. In addition to Hot Lips Page, Durham, Washington and Basie, the band at that point also starred Ben Webster, Eddie Barefield and Walter Page and one of the highpoints was the debut of "Moten Swing."
Tragically Bennie Moten died in 1935 from a botched tonsillectomy operation. Buster Moten briefly took over the band, but many of its top members (along with some important additions like Lester Young) eventually gravitated towards Count Basie.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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