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| Vintage Alex Welsh 1955-56 |
| Alex Welsh |
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első megjelenés éve: 2003
72 perc |
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| (2003)
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| 5.075 Ft
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| 1. | Farewell Blues
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| 2. | New Orleans Masquerade
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| 3. | A Good Man Is Hard to Find
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| 4. | Coal Cart Blues
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| 5. | Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
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| 6. | Back O' Town Blues
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| 7. | Original Dixieland One-step
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| 8. | You've Been a Good Old Wagon
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| 9. | Froggie Moore Rag
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| 10. | When It's Sleepy Time Down South
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| 11. | Gimme a Pigfoot & a Bottle of Beer
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| 12. | Beale Street Blues
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| 13. | There'll Be Some Changes Made
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| 14. | Keeping Out of Mischief Now
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| 15. | Sheik of Araby
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| 16. | St. Louis Blues
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| 17. | Goody Goody
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| 18. | If I Had You
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| 19. | Swinging the Blues
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| 20. | Home
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| 21. | All of Me
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Jazz
Recorded: 1955-56
Alex Welsh (cnt, voc)
Roy Crimmins (tb)
Archie Semple (cl)
Fred Hunt (bno)
Nevil Skrimshire (gtr)
Frank Thompson (bs)
Lennie Hastings (dms)
Tom Page (bs)
Neva Raphaello (voc)
George Melly (voc)
Chris Staunton (bs)
Hugh Carey (bs)
Billy Lock (dms)
The music we have here is largely taken from broadcasts over the period and represents the fourth Lake issue of music by Alex Welsh's "first" band with Semple and Crimmins. And what a great band this was: comparisons are of course odious, and the later line-up with John Barnes and Roy Williams was fantastic, but for me at least this was the Welsh band's shining hour. - Mike Durham 2003
Alex Welsh
Active Decades: '50s, '60s and '70s
Born: Jul 09, 1929 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: Jun 25, 1982 in London, England
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
Highland high notes are what Alex Welsh blew. He was one of the great trad jazz players from the United Kingdom and one of the first Scottish musicians to make a name for himself in a genre far removed from bagpipes and haggis. He began his musical life in Leith on the smaller cornet, later switching to trumpet with either horn case in his hand finding an immediate home for his playing on the traditional jazz scene. That was fine with him, since he had loved jazz since his high school days. The teenage Leith Silver Band and later gigs with Archie Semple's Capital Jazz Band represented the earliest phases of his gigging. He moved to London in the early '50s, forming a new band that rushed to the head of its class like a genius dropped into the fourth grade. Showing the type of aplomb and taste that would serve him well throughout his bandleading career, Welsh made sure every position in the band was filled with an expert, exciting player.
While some rival bands in this style focused on their stage costumes and antics or recorded in the pop style to break onto the charts, Welsh always put the integrity of the music first. His hope was to reach the type of intense, swinging interplay that was part of the best Chicago-style Dixieland jazz and at least some degree of success can be inferred from Welsh's following among trad jazz listeners, and even more from the respect he received from top American players such as Pee Wee Russell and Wild Bill Davison. Welsh's homegrown sidemen over the years included Archie Semple, Fred Hunt, Roy Crimmins, Roy Williams, John Barnes, Lennie Hastings, and Al Gay. In the '60s and early '70s, Welsh frequently toured, including several trips to the United States and performances with the likes of pianist Earl Hines and trumpeter Ruby Braff. Influenced by fellow trad jazz bandleader Chris Barber, Welsh developed a big repertoire, working from popular music as well as jazz and building up a large mainstream following for ensembles. If there was any real sense of blues to the proceedings, it would have been in memory of the first generation of sidemen who had built the band up from the ground, but who were no longer alive to enjoy the level of success the group had now achieved. By the mid-'70s, Welsh's health was also failing, but the trumpeter continued reaching for the high notes as long as he could. The BBC commissioned the '90s Lemonade King, described as "a 30-minute documentary about the life and music of the late, great Scottish jazz trumpet player Alex Welsh."
--- Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide |
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