Jazz / Early Jazz
CD 1: Three Little Words - 55:58 min.
San
So Sweet
Virginia Lee
Chicago, July 1, 1930
Jimmie Noone (cl)(vcl)(dir), Eddie Pollack (cl)(as)(bs)(vcl), Zinky Cohn (p), Wilbur Gorham (bjo)(g), Bill Newton (b), Johnny Wells (d), Georgia White (vcl)
You Rascal, You
Bring It On Home To Grandma
Chicago, July 29, 1930
Same
When You’re Smiling
I Lost My Gal From Memphis
Chicago, May 16, 1930
Same
On Revival Day
I'm Drifting Back To Dreamland
Chicago, May 28, 1930
Same
Three Little Words
Chicago, October 30, 1930
Same, add May Alix (vcl)
Little White Lies
Chicago, August 23, 1930
Same
Trav'lin' All Alone
Chicago, January 12, 1931
Same, add Mildred Bailey (vcl)
It’s You
River, Stay ‘Way From My Door
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
Chicago, July 27, 1931
Jimmie Noone (cl)(dir), Eddie Pollack (as)(bs)(vcl), Earl Hines (p), John Henley (g), Quinn Wilson (b), Benny Washington (d), Art Jarrett (vcl)
Dixie Lee
Chicago, January 12, 1931
Same, except Zinky Cohn or Clarence Browning (p) replaces Earl Hines
Inka Dinka Doo
Delta Bound
Like Me A Little Bit Less
Chicago, December 15, 1933
Same, except Zinky Cohn or Clarence Browning (p) replaces Earl Hines
I'd Do Anything For You
A Porter’s Love Song
Chicago, November 23, 1934
Same, except Jimmy Cobb (tp) added, John Lindsay (b) replaces Quinn Wilson
CD 2: I Know That - 59:48 min.
Shine
Liza
Chicago, November 23, 1934
Jimmie Noone (cl)(dir), Jimmy Cobb (tp), Eddie Pollack (as)(bs)(vcl), Zinky Cohn (p), John Henley (g), John Lindsay (b), Benny Washington (d)
Soon (There'll Just Be Two Of Us)
Lullaby Of Broadway
Lookie, Lookie, Lookie, Here Comes Cookie
It's Easy To Remember
Chicago, February 21, 1935
Same
He's A Different Type Of Guy
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
The Blues Jumped A Rabbit
Sweet Georgia Brown
Chicago, January 15, 1936
Jimmie Noone (cl), Guy Kelly (tp)(vcl), Preston Jackson (tb), Francis Whitby (ts), Gideon Honore (p), Israel Crosby (b), Tubby Hall (d)
Sweet Lorraine
Bump It (The Bumps)
Japansy
Four Or Five Times
Hell In My Heart
I'm Walkin' This Town
Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear
I Know That You Know
New York, December 1, 1937
Jimmie Noone (cl), Charlie Shavers (tp), Pete Brown (as), Frank Smith (p), Teddy Bunn (g), Wellman Braud (b), O’Neil Spencer (d)(vcl), Teddy Simmons (vcl)
New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
New York, June 5, 1940
Jimmie Noone (cl), Natty Dominique (cn), Preston Jackson (tb), Richard M. Jones (p), Lonnie Johnson (g), John Lindsay (b), Tubby Hall (d)
Buchformat 2 CD + 20 page booklet
At the beginning of the 20th century New Orleans produced three clarinet players of renown: Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet - and Jimmy Noone. All three were innovators, and each had their own individual sound. Dodds' sound leaned on jazz‘s blues influences and Bechet's had a powerful and unmistakable vibrato. Noone somehow produced a smoother tone however, one that had a quality that would not limit it to a time or a region, and that as a result could develop over the years and augment the sounds of the 1930 as much as the 1910s.
Jimmie Noone
Active Decades: '20s, '30s and '40s
Born: Apr 23, 1895 in New Orleans, LA
Died: Apr 19, 1944 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Early Jazz, New Orleans Jazz
Considered one of the three top New Orleans clarinetists of the 1920s (with Johnny Dodds and Sidney Bechet), Jimmie Noone had a smoother tone than his contemporaries that appealed to players of the swing era (including Benny Goodman). He played guitar as a child, and at age 15 took clarinet lessons from Lorenzo Tio, Jr. and Sidney Bechet (the latter was only 13, shockingly enough). Noone developed quickly, and he played with Freddie Keppard (1913-1914), Buddy Petit, and the Young Olympia Band (1916), which he also led. In 1917, he went to Chicago to join Keppard's Creole band. After it broke up the following year he became a member of King Oliver's band, staying until he joined Doc Cook's Dreamland Orchestra (1920-1926). Although Noone recorded with Cook, it was when he started leading a band at the Apex Club that he hit his stride. By 1928, he had pianist Earl Hines and altoist Joe Poston in the unusual quintet (Poston stuck to playing melodies behind Noone), and was recording for Vocalion, creating classic music including an early version of "Sweet Lorraine" (his theme song) and "Four or Five Times." Noone worked steadily in Chicago throughout the 1930s (although he received less attention from the jazz world), and he used Charlie Shavers on some of his late-'30s recordings and welcomed the young singer Joe Williams to the bandstand; unfortunately, they never recorded together. In 1944, Noone was in Kid Ory's band on the West Coast and seemed on the brink of greater fame when he unexpectedly died. Thanks to European reissue series, Jimmie Noone's recordings are readily available on CD. His son, Jimmie Noone, Jr., suddenly emerged out of obscurity in the 1980s to play clarinet and tenor with the Cheathams.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
