Red Allen - The Jazz Archive

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9/11/34 Tu., NYC., FLETCHER HENDERSON & HIS ORCH.: Russell Smith, Irving Randolph, Red Allen (t) Claude Jones,
Keg Johnson (tb) Buster Bailey (cl) Russell Procope, Hilton Jefferson (as) Ben Webster (ts) Fletcher Henderson (arr,p on
the lst title) Horace (arr,p on the other three) Lawrence Lucie (g) Elmer James (b) Walter Johnson (d) Benny Carter (arr)
/ AofH/Dec.DL/DecDL/CorCOPS/MCA(F)/Classics/HEP/
38598-A 2:42 LIMEHOUSE BLUES -aBC (Furber-Braham) Dec 157/AH-61/ -9228 /-79228/ -1912 / 510060/ CD535/1009/
-W.Johnson intro-Allen 32b-Bailey 32b-Johnson 8+8b-Webster 30b-trumpets 16b-trombones 8b-trumpets 8b-
38599-A 3:04 SHANGHAI SHUFFLE -aFH (Rodemich-Conley) Dec 158/ --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / -- /
-saxes 32b-Bailey 32b-Randolph 32b-Procope 8b-
38600-A 2:54 BIG JOHN SPECIAL -aHH (F..Henderson) Dec 214/ --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- /
-saxes lead 32b-Randolph 16b-Jefferson 8b-Randolph 8b-Henderson 8b-,saxes 8bHenderson 8b-
-trumpets brd-Allen & Randolph 16b-; -arr.H.H.
38601-A-B 2:49 HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG (Koeler-Arlen) --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- /
from "Cotton Club Parade” -aBC; -saxes 32b-Jones ? 32b-Webster 32b-Allen 32b-Jefferson obligato 4b and coda-
9/12/34, Wed., NYC., same but: Procope & Jefferson (as, cl) Fletcher (p on the first two) Horace(p, on the last two) Russ
Morgan(arr) Alternate take of WRAPPIN´IT UP has been rumored; some European pressings of -A were dubbed from B.
38602-A 3:07 TIDAL.WAVE -aRM (R.Morgan-Trask) Dec 213/ --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- /
-saxes & trombones 32b-Webster 32b-F.Henderson 6+6b-saxes Ob-f.Henderson 6b-muted brass 8b-
-Allen 8b-muted brass 8+2b-Jefferson 2b-Bailey 6+6+6+6b-; (Cf. Vi-version 3/6/34)
38603-A 2:59 DOWN SOUTH CAMP MEETING -aFH (Henderson) --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- --- /
-saxes lead 28b-Allen muted 24b-Jefferson brd 2b-Allen 2b-saxes & brass 28bclarinet trio & brass 4+32b-
38604-A-B 2:45 WRAPPIN´ IT UP "The Lindy Glide" -aFH Dec 157/ --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- /
(Henderson) -saxes lead 32b-Jefferson 32b-Allen 8+16b-brass & clarinets 8b-Bailey 8b-sax 8
38605-A 2:45 MEMPHIS BLUES -aFH Dec 158/Neatw.CD-RP2016/ / --- /
-B 2:45 MEMPHIS BLUES -aFH (W.C.Handy) Dec 158/ --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- /
-saxes 12b-Webster over brass 12b-Johnson 16b-Webster (high-ts) or Procope(as) & brass 12b
-Jefferson 4+4b-Randolph 12b-
38605-B on RA-CD-3; 38600-A 0n RA-CD-12(Trumpet Kings)
9/25/34 Tu., NYC., same but: & Benny Carter (as,arr) Fletcher (p on 38724, -25, -28) Horace (p on -23, -.28) Will Hudson(arr)
38723-A 3:03 WILD PARTY -aWH (W.Hudson) Dec 342/ --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / CD527/ --- /
-Bailey intro 8b and obligato 32b-saxes 16b-Bailey 8b-saxes Bb-Johnson 16b-Jefferson 8b-
-?Johnson 8b-Allen muted 16b-Webster 8b-Allen muted 8b-Bailey obligato 16b-
38724-A 3:02 RUG CUTTER´S SWING -aHH (Allen-Henderson) --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- /
-Allen muted 32b-Bailey 16+8b-Jones 6+6b-Jefferson 8b-Jones 6b-Webster 16b-
-Johnson 8b-Webster 8b-saxes 16b-Allen 8b-Allen muted 8b-
38725-A 2:51 HOTTER THAN `ELL (= YEAH MAN) -aHH Dec 555/ --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- /
(F.Henderson) -?Jones 32b-Bailey lead 4b-Bailey 28b-Allen 32b-Webster 32+8b-
38728-A 2:41 LIZA (All The Clouds `ll Roll Away) -aFH --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- / --- /
from Ziegfield´s “Show Girl" (Gus Kahn-I.& G. Gershwin) -F.Henderson intro 8b-chimes-saxes 32b-?Randolph 8b
-H.Henderson 4b-Carter 32b?Randolph 8b-?Johnson 16b-Procope 8b-?Keg Johnson 8b-F.Henderson 8b-
matrices 38726-27 are by Glen Gray & Casa Loma Orch.; 38729 by the Buccaneers.
all Decca-sides also on : MCA(USA) GRP-16432-CD”TIDAL WAVE” (1931-34; 21 sides)/
poss.Oct./Nov./34, unknown broadcast – rerecorded in a studio Henry Red Allen(t,?scat-v) & unknown broadcaster (ann, ?scatv)
in front of a mike to 9/25/34 Decca records 38724-A & 38723-A from FLETCHER HENDERSON & HIS ORCH.
Aircheck 3:00 RUG CUTTER SWING -v? (H.Allen) rec.by Squirrel Ashcraft on a very corroded aluminium/ RA-CD-10
-saxes 12b-Allen 4b-saxes 6b-muted trumpets 8b-
--- 2:57 WILD PARTY (W..Hudson) --- / / RA-CD-10
-Bailey intro 8b-obligato 32b-Allen & reeds 16b-Bailey 8b-Allen 8b-Jones 16b-Jefferson 8b-
-Jones 8b--Allen t over Randolph muted-t 32b-saxes & brass 32b- with Bailey obligato 16b-
W.C.Allen believed at an undated life-broadcast and wrote in HENDERSONIA: c.Aug./Sept.34, unknown location, broadcast:
“The fact that the same soloists and routines are heard as on the corresponging Decca versions, indicates that these were made
about the same period of time, before the band broke up in November. They might have been made during engagements in
Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburg or other midwest cities. Another possibility would be from broadcasts at the Roseland Ballroom
late Sept.. There is a great deal of static and distortion on the tape available to me; the ballance is poor, one trumpet being very
close to the mike. Someone can be heard scatting on the first title, and it does not sound like Red Allen.”
F. Hoffmann: In fact it is a rerecorded session in the broadcast studio of 9/25/34 Decca-records with unknown broadcaster (v).
Red Allen added on (t) and played new long solos backing his own and to other solos. Charly Parker did so later playing on
broadcast to his own record. I brought the two pieces of very poor audio quality on RA-CD-10 – that anybody can make his
own opinion. Several audio-engeneers denied any possibility to get any better digital-quality.