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Fred "Sugar" Hall & His Sugar Babies
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Fred "Sugar" Hall & His Sugar Babies
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24 tracks from Fred "Sugar" Hall and his Sugar Babies, including two previously unreleased numbers amongst other rarities.
Considering the fact that Fred "Sugar" Hall and his Sugar Babies recorded in excess of 150 titles between 1925 and 1931 there is surprisingly little information to be found on him or his long time partner, Arthur Fields. Quite a few of Hall's records are of considerable interest to fans of early forms of jazz, but he is generally ignored by writers on the subject. This CD contains two previously unknown and unlisted numbers from, what would seem to be the band's first recording session on 9th September, 1931.
The initial performances of the band are of non-vocal, straight-forward jazz styled material e.g. "Sobbin' Blues" and "Dallas Blues". The eight piece band had a standard Dixieland instrumentation of cornet, trombone, clarinet doubling, alto sax, banjo, piano, brass bass and drums plus a violin. After a couple of years with no known recordings the band returned to OKeh with a new front-line, though the rhythm section remained unchanged, and the addition of Arthur Fields' vocals.
Tracklisting
Various Artists
Irving Mills And His Hotsy Totsy Gang
The Kit-Cat Band
Various Artists
Various Artists
Philip Lewis
Johnny de Droit and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra
Madame Tussaud's Dance Orchestra & Stanley Barnett
Misha Mullov-Abbado
Tuohi Klang
Skerik, Brian Haas, James Singleton, Simon Lott
Heikki Sarmanto
Max Roach
Gil Evans
Henry Mancini
Ray Barretto