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Born in Ripley, OH, the brother of trumpeter Russell Smith. He played with small groups in St. Louis, MO then went to New York City in 1920. There he joined Kaiser Marshall's band, and accompanied Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith (whose favorite trumpet player he was) and Mamie Smith in 1922 and 1923. In 1924, he led a group backing Noble Sissie and Eubie Blake, and played off and on with Fletcher Henderson from 1925 to 1928. After playing briefly with Bennie Moten, he played intermittently with McKinney's Cotton Pickers from 1929 to 1934. In the early '30s his health started to fail and he worked infrequently, spending the last four years of his life in a Long Island, NY hospital

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Mother of the Blues, The Complete Paramount Recordings, 1923-1928

By Ma Rainey

Label: Black Swan Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Bad Luck Blues; Barrel House Blues; Bessemer Bound Blues; Big Boy Blues; Big Feeling Blues; Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues; Black Dust Blues; Black Eye Blues; Blame It on the Blues; Blues Oh Blues; Booze and Blues; Broken Hearted Blues; Broken Soul Blues; Cell Bound Blues; Chain Gang Blues; Countin' the Blues; Daddy Goodbye Blues; Damper Down Blues; Dead Drunk Blues; Deep Moaning Blues; Don't Fish in My Sea; Down in the Basement; Farewell Daddy Blues; Georgia Cake Walk; Goodbye Daddy Blues; Grievin' Hearted Blues; Hellish Rag; Honey Where You Been So Long; Ice Bag Papa; Jealous Hearted Blues; Jealous Rider Blues; Jealousy Blues; Jelly Bean Blues; Last Minute Blues; Lawd Send Me a Man Blues; Leaving This Morning; Levee Camp Moan; Log Camp Blues; Lost Wandering Blues; Lucky Rock Blues; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Ma Rainey's Mystery Record; Misery Blues; Moonshine Blues; Mountain Jack Blues; New Bo-Weavil Blues; Night Time Blues; Oh Papa Blues; Prove It on Me Blues; Rough and Tumble Blues; Runaway Blues; Screech Owl Blues; See See Rider Blues; Shave 'Em Dry Blues; Slave to the Blues; Sleep Talking Blues; Slow Driving Blues; Southern Blues; Stack O' Lee Blues; Stormy Sea Blues; Sweet Rough Man; Traveling Blues; Trust No Man; Tough Luck Blues; Victim of the Blues; Walking Blues; Weepin' Woman Blues; Wringing and Twisting Blues; Yonder Come the Blues.

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Paralleli

By Tom Kessler

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Paralleli; Amulet; Super Chon Goes off to work; Traum view; Greta Knows; Invisible Parasites; Greta Sails.

Song of the Day

Paralleli

April 1, 2021

Album: Paralleli
By Tom Kessler
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 3:07

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Gin & Moonlight

By Joe Smith

Label: Cuttin' Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: St. Louis Blues; Where’s Gary; Moonglow; They Raided The Joint; Home Stretch; Pourin’ My Heart Out; Mirage; Anything For You; A Moonless Night; Blues And Sentimental; Lullaby Of The Leaves; I’ll Be Seeing You.

Article: Album Review

Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles: Gin & Moonlight

Read "Gin & Moonlight" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
August 26, 2017

Long before jazz became a spectator event, it was dance music. The big bands that played swing made their reputations on being able to flood the floor with dancers. Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles are on a mission to bring back those days, and Gin & Moonlight has them on the right track. Formed in ...

Article: Interview

Billy Vera: Still In The Game

by Scott Mitchell
September 10, 2013

It might be safe to say that a lot of people may know a little bit about Billy Vera but only a few people know a lot about Billy Vera. Billy is a singer, writer, producer, actor, Grammy winner, and music historian. He has performed with big bands, Billy And The Beaters, solo, and everything in ...

Article: Under the Radar

Don Redman: Setting the Template

by Jim Gerard
May 29, 2012

As someone who came to jazz as a young man in the 1970s, I can attest that subsequent generations of both its chroniclers and, even sadder, its practitioners, have succumbed to the peculiarly and regrettable American disease of a-historicism. They've shoved jazz history through a sieve, reducing it from an epic tale of heroic ...

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Victoria (Live in Germany)

By Arthur Kell

Label: Bjurecords
Released: 2009
Track listing: Victoria And Her Sisters; Suomi Sanni; Papa Abba; Draco Arthur; Names & Spaces; There You Go; Dada.

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Music Needs You

By Ryan Blotnick

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2008
Track listing: Winter Melt; Thinning Air; Music Needs You; The Quiet Space Left Behind; Barceloneta; Liberty; You Can Talk During This; Wrong Turns; Tired House.