Limehouse Blues - Red Nichols & His Five Pennies (w Scrappy Lambert) (1928)

Red Nichols, c / Leo McConville, Mannie Klein, t / Miff Mole, tb / Dudley Fosdick, mel / Arnold Brilhart, as, oboe / Fud Livingston, cl, ts / Joe Venuti, Murray Kellner, vn / Arthur Schutt, p / Eddie Lang, g / Art Miller, sb / Vic Berton, d / Scrappy Lambert, v. New York, May 31, 1928.

[bobboscarato]

Good hot music in these cold nights brought by 2018. Happy New Year to ya'all

[louispanico]

Miff Mole is a god. And so is Joe Venuti. And Eddie Lang too.

[idakolls]

Excellent tunes from the 30's Thank you, Atticus Jazz

[nicolasolmosolmos]

THIS TUNE IS REALLY A JAZZ STANDARD THAT LASTS FOREVER.
IN THOSE TIMES THE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN TODAY. THANKS A LOT FOR SHARING

[IamUncledeuce]

Superb! Miff Mole is a favorite of mine. Thanks.

[johnrothfield]

Great recording with Vocals and Venuti!

[maureen]

Thanks for posting this lovely 'oldie'.  It's great !

[BobFarnell]

I Don't care where you found these pieces but they are Priceless I love Dixieland Jazz and this is heaven!!!! Thank you for posting

[nickamazing]

Atticus, this is such a classic. Thanks so much.

[Gwid]

Really well done! Nice to hear Scrappy. Great version of this, thanks. :)

[aaronjorgefridman]

No es que los 20's "are back", se aletargan y resurgen. ¡viva!

[AndreyShugaev]

five pennies with incorporated lang-venuti, and crooning what a complex treat.

[casparpolitman]

i love this one, thank you mein freund

[GLBHemstreet]

I love this recording; I mean, being a product of its time, its a bit racist, but no other recording of "Limehouse" that I've found can carry such a mystic, almost hypnotic effect (which I attribute to the violin and the oboe).

[thendrjazz]

Great Venuti and Lang sounds like a cabaret production number

[roundgarage]

The violin is Joe Venuti for sure, not Murray Kellner. Listen to some Venuti stuff with Eddie Lang, then listen to Murray Kellner. Two totally different sounds and styles.

[keverett]

According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography Online this is Arnold Brilhart :) #jazzoboe

[thendrjazz]

Wriiten as a pop tune by 2 English songwriters. It first appeared in a revue there in 1921, Gertrude Lawrence took over the song there and brought it to NY 1924. It made her a star here and became a jazz standard. Brian Rust's Jazz Records[1978} 1897-1942 lists 43 recordings of the tune between 1921 and 42. Julie Andrews did a extended version of the tune in the 1968 film Star which was a biograph of Lawrence. It gives some idea of how the tune might have sounded and looked in a Broadway revue. There is a version of Lawrence singing it as part of a medley of her hits. So this performance is a jazz version of a pop tune which has the term blues in its title but is not a blues.

[luvmyrecords]

Just at the end of Brillhardt's oboe solo, there is alto playing that descending line; he couldn't have switched from clarinet that quickly, so it must be a third reedman. Any guesses as to who it might be? Would it be one of tbose people "on loan" from Brunswick that you mentioned elsewhere in the comments?

[jourwalis-]

Great sound! But an unusually Long Playing 78. In 1928? An extra large disc?