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Artist: Bessie Smith Label:   Columbia Country: USA Catalogue: 14384-D Date: 25 Jan 1929 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: $144 » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bessie Smith	Slow And Easy Man	Red	Rate
B	Bessie Smith	Me And My Gin	Burke	Rate

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A: Vocal [Bessie Smith], Novelty accomp. [Porter Grainger, piano; Bob Fuller, tenor saxophone; Ernest Elliott, alto saxophone]
Recorded August 24, 1928 New York, NY, mx: 146894-2.

B: Vocal [Bessie Smith], Trombone [Joe Williams] and Piano [Porter Grainger] accomp.
Recorded August 25, 1928 New York, NY, mx: 146897-3.

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fixbutte 19th Sep 2017		Like for many early jazz sessions, there are considerable doubts who played which reed instruments on the August 24, 1928 session that produced "Slow And Easy Man". The notes above follow the most in-depth source, THE RECORDINGS OF ERNEST ELLIOTT An Annotated Tentative Name - Discography, written by K.-B. Rau, on harlem-fuss.com, which is quoted here for the whole session: 102 BESSIE SMITH New York, Aug. 24, 1928 Bessie Smith – voc; Joe Williams – tbn (6); Bob Fuller – clt, sop (4),ten (3,5,6); Ernest Elliott – clt, alt (3,4,5); Porter Grainger – pno (1) 146887-2 Yes Indeed He Do | Col 14354-D, Frog DGF 45 (2) 146888-2 Devil´s Gonna Get You | Col 14354-D, Frog DGF 45 (3) 146889-3 You Ought To Be Ashamed | Col 14399-D, Frog DGF 45 (4) 146893-2 Washwoman´s Blues | Col 14375-D, Frog DGF 45 (5) 146894-2 Slow And Easy Man | Col 14384-D, Frog DGF 46 (6) 146895-1 Poor Man´s Blues | Col 14399-D, Frog DGF 46 On ‘Yes Indeed He Do’ we hear the reed men both on clarinets, with Elliott playing first part in the intro, then leaving the field open for Fuller, who bears most of the following accompaniment with his fine and warm clarinet. Only at the end do we hear both musicians together again, difficult to discriminate. Judging from tone, loudness and vibrato, Elliott seems to lead the ensemble of ‘Devil´s Gonna Get You’ on first clarinet throughout, but this again is difficult to discriminate. The rudimental arrangements seem to come from P. Grainger. On ‘You Ought To Be Ashamed’ it is very obvious from tone, vibrato and smears that Elliott plays the alto sax and Fuller the tenor. On 'Washwoman´s Blues’ we hear Elliott again on alto, Fuller on soprano. Elliott with his antiquated time and phrasing and Fuller as the much better jazz man on soprano, unlisted up to now! ‘Slow And Easy Man’ has Elliott on alto again and Fuller on tenor. Fuller sometimes plays very high, which might lead to a sound of seemingly two altos. This is apparent here. ‘Poor Man´s Blues’ has – apart from the great Joe Williams on trombone – Bob Fuller on tenor, again sometimes very high, and Elliott on clarinet. Throughout this whole investigation nowhere have I found Ernest Elliott to play tenor sax. This session again is proof to this fact!

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