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The Complete Set | 
| Artist: New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Label: Retrieval
Category: Music
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Sales Rank: 107033
Format: Double Cd
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 608917903126
EAN: 0608917903126
ASIN: B00005QXGD
Release Date: July 3, 2006
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Eccentric | | • | Farewell Blues | | • | Discontented Blues | | • | Bugle Call Blues | | • | Panama | | • | Tiger Rag | | • | Livery Stable Blues | | • | Oriental | | • | Sweet Lovin' Man | | • | That's A Plenty | | • | Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble | | • | Weary Blues | | • | That Da Da Strain | | • | Wolverine Blues | | • | Maple Leaf Rag | | • | Tin Roof Blues | | • | Sobbin' Blues | | • | Marguerite | | • | Angry | | • | Clarinet Marmalade | | • | Mr. Jelly Lord | | • | London Blues | | • | Milenburg Joys | | • | Mad ('Cause You Treat Me This Way) |
Disc 2
| • | Baby | | • | I Never Knew What A Girl Could Do | | • | She's Crying For Me | | • | Golden Leaf Strut | | • | She's Cryin' For Me | | • | She's Cryin' For Me | | • | Everybody Loves Somebody Blues (But Nobody Loves Me) | | • | Everybody Loves Somebody Blues (But Nobody Loves Me) | | • | Sweet Lovin' Man | | • | That's A Plenty | | • | Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble | | • | Wolverine Blues | | • | Tin Roof Blues | | • | Tin Roof Blues | | • | Angry | | • | Clarinet Marmalade | | • | Mr. Jelly Lord | | • | Milenberg Joys | | • | Nagasaki | | • | Nagasaki | | • | Reincarnation | | • | Maple Leaf Rag | | • | Maple Leaf Rag | | • | When You Live In The Land Of Dreams |
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Great Music From a Great Band! August 14, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The New Orleans Rhythm Kings have had rather a bad press. They are seen as 'white' copyists of 'black' New Orleans music - exemplified by the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band - while, in fact, they are a band working within the same tradition. Paul Mares' cornet work is certainly similar to Oliver's but he is not just a pale copy. Listen, for example, to the two tunes common to both bands' recorded output - 'Sweet Loving Man' and 'Sobbing Blues'. They are markedly different interpretations, although both in the New Orleans ensemble tradition of multi-voiced polyphony. Leon Ropollo's clarinet work is also totally original - indeed he has been called the first significant white jazz soloist - and George Brunis' trombone is, for the period, very sophisticated. The rhythm has a splendid flowing drive and the ensemble a fine homogenity. No wonder 'Jelly Roll' Morton was pleased to record with the group and the surviving results of their two days in Richmond are, of course, included in this comprehensive 2 disc survey. As well as the Gennett sessions, those for Okeh and Victor made in New Orleans are also included as are a plethora of alternate takes. A final bonus is the session recorded by Mares in 1935 with Jess Stacey, Omer Simeon, and George Wettling; the ensemble homogenity has gone but solos are excellent and the music most enjoyable.
As you would expect, John R T Davis' remastering leaves nothing to be desired and the sound quality is quite amazing when compared with earler reissues both on LP and CD.
I cannot recommend this issue of some of the most important early jazz recordings too highly. An essential addition to any collection.
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