78 RPM - Ted Lewis Jazz Band - Somehow / I Know Why - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Ted Lewis Jazz Band
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	A2945
Date:	Aug 1920
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Ted Lewis Jazz Band	Somehow	Ted Lewis	8.0 Rate
B	Morrison's Jazz Orchestra	I Know Why	David, Morgan	7.0 Rate

Notes

B: Introducing: My Cuban Dreams (Warshauer)

A side (mx. 79111-3) recorded New York, NY, April 9, 1920.
B side (mx. 79098-6) recorded New York, NY, April 2, 1920.

Label printing date codes GW (= July 1920) on the A side and EW (= May 1920) on the B side.

Personnel on B:
George Morrison (Violin, Leader); Leo Davis (Trumpet); Ed Carwell (Trombone); Culbert Byrd (Alto Saxophone); Jimmy Lunceford (Alto Saxophone, Violin); Andy Kirk (Tenor Saxophone); Mary E. Kirk or Jesse Andrews or Desdemona Davis (Piano); Lee Morrison (Banjo); Eugene Montgomery (Drums).

Reviewed in The Washington Herald (August 15, 1920), Page 9: "Marion Harris Is Up-To-Date Doctor."
The Talking Machine World, August 15, 1920, p. 227: Advance Record Bulletins for September, 1920 (i.e., released in late August 1920).

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xiphophilos 4th May 2020		A side:



xiphophilos 29th Aug 2017		B side: This is apparently the earliest side recorded and released by an African American band. George Morrison's band, an outfit from Denver, Colorado that boasted members like Andy Kirk and Jimmie Lunceford on the saxes, recorded three additional sides at the same recording date, but none of them were subsequently released. The style of both this and the Ted Lewis recording on the other side (A side because it is listed first in Talking Machine World and discussed first and more extensively in the Washington Herald review) reminds me of the collective improvisations of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, but both are much slower and much tamer than ODJB's "Livery Stable Blues". Truth be told, the Ted Lewis side is the better one of the two.