Bob Scobey's Frisco Band - Rompin' And Stompin'

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:25
Size: 97,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:33) 1. Colonel Bogey March
(3:13) 2. The Pearls
(3:00) 3. Kansas City Stomp
(3:28) 4. Buddy Bolden's Blues
(3:58) 5. Skit-Dat-De-Dat
(3:49) 6. The Chant
(2:38) 7. Shake It And Break It
(3:45) 8. Canal Street Blues
(3:49) 9. Fidgety Feet
(4:40) 10. Dallas Blues
(3:52) 11. London Blues
(3:36) 12. Black Bottom Stomp

Trumpeter Bob Scobey still had a spirited Dixieland group in 1959, but the addition of pianist Art Hodes for this date clearly uplifted the band. Scobey performs six songs associated with Jelly Roll Morton (including "The Pearls," "Kansas City Stomp" and "The Chant"), plus six other songs dating mostly from the 1920s. A strictly instrumental date (although Clancy Hayes helps out the rhythm section on banjo), clarinetist Brian Shanley, trombonist Jim Beebe and the tuba of Rich Matteson are strong assets, along with Hodes and Scobey. Well worth searching for by Dixieland collectors. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rompin-stompin/id453951910

Rompin'And Stompin'

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Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band - Swingin' On The Golden Gate

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Swing
Year: 1957
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:31
Size: 89,3 MB
Art: Front

(2:48) 1. Sunny Disposish
(3:11) 2. Carolina In The Morning
(3:48) 3. Feet Draggin' Blues
(2:22) 4. It Happened In Sun valley
(4:07) 5. I Can't Get Started With You
(3:19) 6. Come Back Sweet Papa
(2:48) 7. Wabash Cannonball
(2:48) 8. New Orleans
(3:15) 9. Ain't-Cha Glad?
(3:19) 10. Let's Dance The Ragtime, Darlin'
(4:24) 11. Snag It
(2:18) 12. Waiting For The Robert E. Lee

Trumpeter Bob Scobey used an expanded version of his Frisco Jazz Band for this fine effort, last available as a now out-of-print LP. Matty Matlock's arrangements for the six horns (including three trombones), four-piece rhythm section and banjoist Clancy Hayes (who takes five vocals) are colorful and swinging. Some of the song choices are a bit off the wall (including "It Happened In Sun Valley," "Wabash Cannonball" and the recent "Let's Dance The Ragtime Darlin'"), but this brand of Dixieland avoids corn in favor of sincere swinging. In addition to Scobey (who is in fine form), the supporting cast has such strong players as trumpeter Dick Cathcart, clarinetist Matlock and pianist Ralph Sutton. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/swingin-on-the-golden-gate-mw0000896219

Personnel: Bob Scobey - leader, trumpet; Clancy Hayes - banjo, guitar, vocals; Matty Matlock - clarinet, arranger; Abe Lincoln - trombone; Warren Smith - trombone; Jack Buck - trombone; Ralph Sutton - piano; Bob Short - tuba; Sammy Goldstein - drums.

Swingin' On The Golden Gate

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Bob Scobey's Frisco Band - Swingin' On The Golden Gate

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Swing
Year: 1899
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:31
Size: 89,3 MB
Art: Front

(2:48)  1. Sunny Disposish
(3:11)  2. Carolina In The Morning
(3:48)  3. Feet Draggin' Blues
(2:22)  4. It Happened In Sun valley
(4:07)  5. I Can't Get Started With You
(3:19)  6. Come Back Sweet Papa
(2:48)  7. Wabash Cannonball
(2:48)  8. New Orleans
(3:15)  9. Ain't-Cha Glad?
(3:19) 10. Let's Dance The Ragtime, Darlin'
(4:24) 11. Snag It
(2:18) 12. Waiting For The Robert E. Lee

Trumpeter Bob Scobey used an expanded version of his Frisco Jazz Band for this fine effort, last available as a now out-of-print LP. Matty Matlock's arrangements for the six horns (including three trombones), four-piece rhythm section and banjoist Clancy Hayes (who takes five vocals) are colorful and swinging. Some of the song choices are a bit off the wall (including "It Happened In Sun Valley," "Wabash Cannonball" and the recent "Let's Dance The Ragtime Darlin'"), but this brand of Dixieland avoids corn in favor of sincere swinging. In addition to Scobey (who is in fine form), the supporting cast has such strong players as trumpeter Dick Cathcart, clarinetist Matlock and pianist Ralph Sutton. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/swingin-on-the-golden-gate-mw0000896219

Personnel: Bob Scobey - leader, trumpet; Clancy Hayes - banjo, guitar, vocals; Matty Matlock - clarinet, arranger; Abe Lincoln - trombone; Warren Smith - trombone; Jack Buck - trombone; Ralph Sutton - piano; Bob Short - tuba; Sammy Goldstein - drums.

Swingin' On The Golden Gate

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Bob Scobey's Frisco Band - Rompin' And Stompin'

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:25
Size: 97,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:33)  1. Colonel Bogey March
(3:13)  2. The Pearls
(3:00)  3. Kansas City Stomp
(3:28)  4. Buddy Bolden's Blues
(3:58)  5. Skit-Dat-De-Dat
(3:49)  6. The Chant
(2:38)  7. Shake It And Break It
(3:45)  8. Canal Street Blues
(3:49)  9. Fidgety Feet
(4:40) 10. Dallas Blues
(3:52) 11. London Blues
(3:36) 12. Black Bottom Stomp

Trumpeter Bob Scobey still had a spirited Dixieland group in 1959, but the addition of pianist Art Hodes for this date clearly uplifted the band. Scobey performs six songs associated with Jelly Roll Morton (including "The Pearls," "Kansas City Stomp" and "The Chant"), plus six other songs dating mostly from the 1920s. A strictly instrumental date (although Clancy Hayes helps out the rhythm section on banjo), clarinetist Brian Shanley, trombonist Jim Beebe and the tuba of Rich Matteson are strong assets, along with Hodes and Scobey. Well worth searching for by Dixieland collectors. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/rompin-stompin/id453951910

Rompin' And Stompin'

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Bob Scobey's Frisco Band Feat. Clayce Hayes - Riverboat Shuffle

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:39
Size: 143,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:53)  1. Some Of These Days
(3:23)  2. Down By The Riverside
(2:19)  3. Dippermouth Blues
(3:07)  4. That's A Plenty
(2:42)  5. Alexander’s Ragtime Band
(3:47)  6. Friendless Blues
(2:47)  7. St. Louis Blues
(2:57)  8. Mississippi Mud
(3:49)  9. Riverside Blues
(1:58) 10. Floating Down To Cotton Town
(2:29) 11. Wolverine Blues
(4:11) 12. River Stay 'Way From My Door
(2:51) 13. Pretty Baby
(2:57) 14. Something's Always Happening On The River
(3:44) 15. Swanee River
(3:45) 16. Someday Sweetheart
(3:10) 17. Parson, Kansas Blues
(3:26) 18. Strange Blues
(4:16) 19. Riverboat Shuffle

Throughout his prime years, Bob Scobey was one of the more popular trumpeters in Dixieland. After many low-profile jobs in dance bands in the 1930s, in 1938 Scobey met trumpeter Lu Watters. As a member of Watter's Yerba Buena Jazz Band in San Francisco during 1940-1949 (with much of 1942-1946 spent in the military), Scobey participated in one of the most influential bands of the Dixieland revival movement. In 1949 he left to form his own Frisco Jazz Band, recording frequently (most notably for Good Time Jazz), and often featuring Clancy Hayes or appearing with Lizzie Miles. In 1959 Scobey opened his Club Bourbon Street in Chicago but four years later he died at the age of 46 from cancer. Many of Bob Scobey's Good Time Jazz dates have been reissued on CD and they still contain stirring and joyful music. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-scobey-mn0000071590/biography

Riverboat Shuffle

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Claire Austin - Claire Austin Sings When Your Lover Has Gone

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:39
Size: 157,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:33)  1. When Your Lover Has Gone
(3:43)  2. Can't We Talk It Over
(3:56)  3. My Melancholy Baby
(4:41)  4. I'll Never Be the Same
(4:08)  5. Lover, Come Back to Me
(4:05)  6. The House Is Haunted
(4:14)  7. I'm Thru With Love
(4:28)  8. Someone to Watch over Me
(4:11)  9. Come Rain or Come Shine
(4:11) 10. What Is This Thing Called Love?
(2:48) 11. The World's Jazz Crazy
(3:16) 12. Down Hearted Blues
(3:58) 13. See See Rider
(2:57) 14. Good Time Flat Blues
(3:17) 15. Careless Love
(3:12) 16. Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out
(3:15) 17. Mecca Flat Blues
(3:36) 18. 'Fore Day Creep

The history of jazz and blues is full of talented artists who were obscure but didn't deserve to be. One example is Claire Austin, an expressive jazz/blues vocalist who was as proficient with intimate, introspective torch singing as she was with more extroverted classic blues. Claire Austin Sings When Your Lover Has Gone was recorded for Contemporary in 1955 and 1956, and finds Austin favoring vulnerable, relaxed, subtle torch singing (her phrasing could be described as an appealing combination of Mildred Bailey, Peggy Lee, and Billie Holiday). As a torch singer, she embraces the songbooks of great pop composers like Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, and the Gershwin Brothers. 

~ Alex Henderson  http://www.allmusic.com/album/claire-austin-sings-when-your-lover-has-gone-mw0000267679

Personnel: Claire Austin (vocals); Bob Scobey (trumpet); Kid Ory (trombone); Stan Wrightsman, Don Ewell (piano); Barney Kessel (guitar); Morty Corb, Ed Garland (bass); Shelly Manne, Minor Hall (drums).

Claire Austin Sings When Your Lover Has Gone

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Bing Crosby With Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band - Bing With A Beat

Styles: Big Band
Year: 1957
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:36
Size: 87,0 MB
Art: Front

(2:51)  1. Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella
(3:02)  2. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myelf A Letter
(3:29)  3. Along The Way To Waikiki
(3:16)  4. Exactly Like You
(2:40)  5. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
(2:47)  6. Last Night On The Back Porch
(2:45)  7. Some Sunny Day
(3:27)  8. Whispering
(2:57)  9. Tell Me
(3:54) 10. Mack The Knife
(3:15) 11. Down Among The Sheltering Palms
(3:07) 12. Mama Loves Papa

They just don't write songs like "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter" anymore. It's a catchy melody combined with witty lyrics that conveys an innocent longing for love that would be inconceivable as a radio hit today. However, the same goes for just about any other song on Bing With A Beat.  But then they weren't really writing songs like that in 1957, either. That's when this album first appeared, and none of the songs were in heavy circulation among pop singers at the time. Only "Mack The Knife" still had some legs, thanks to versions recorded by Louis Armstrong (earlier) and Bobby Darin (later). But most are relics from the time when Bing first became famous, long forgotten by the artists whom he influenced. 

Leave it to Crosby to resurrect these old tunes tunes that he always wished he had recorded to create his one true jazz album, a tribute to the music he always loved. Crosby had continued to record well into the fifties, straddling two generations with his blue-eyed, gentlemanly appeal. But where it would have been easy to sing over a lush Nelson Riddle-type orchestration as he had already done he hand-picked Bob Scobey and the rest of his Frisco Jazz Band to create a swinging Dixieland backing that has no strings at all. Dixieland was always Crosby's love, and while the presentation and song selection may seem a little trad, it's a tribute to the talents of Crosby and Scobey that the album works as well as it does and has an instant appeal today. For one thing, Crosby sounds positively jubilant at the opportunity to sing these songs with the hot band behind him, and truly Bing With A Beat sounds like no other vocal album from the time period. Scobey and company rip through the choruses when given the chance and provide punchy backing when Crosby takes the mike. 

There's a snap in Crosby's delivery that wasn't always featured on previous recordings, but his strength was always making lyrics sound earnest. No one has written a song about "Waikiki" in years, but Crosby makes it sound like the hot new vacation spot. In his book Jazz Singing Will Friedwald claims that Bing With A Beat is one of the top ten jazz vocal albums ever made. This may come as a surprise to those who never thought of Crosby as a jazz vocalist in the first place, but there's no denying that Armstrong and Sinatra both owe him debts in their rhythm and phrasing, and most of all the art of singing naturally. Top ten? Maybe. Leave it to Bing, though, to assert himself as capable of creating a jazz album that out-jazzes most of them. ~ David Rickert   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15506#.Uwl0MIVZg9c

Personnel:  Bing Crosby - vocals; with Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz Band.

Boing With A Beat

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