Word: okeh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perennial visitor for 25 years has been a lean, loquacious man, with a slight British accent and a portable recording apparatus. Grey-haired Arthur Edward Satherly is paymaster, musical coach, father confessor to the blues singers, hillbilly fiddlers, guitar-strummers, jug-players, washboard-slappers who make Columbia's Okeh* records by the dozen. In this grass-roots musical field, only Decca competes with Columbia. Decca's hillbilly man is David Kapp...
...Crush On You (Helen Ward and Joe Sullivan; Okeh). Good pop tune sung by Benny Goodman's original songstress, low-down accompaniment by one of the great hot pianists...
...Daphne," by the Quintet of France, is rather meaningless... Mary Martin's album of Colo Porter tunes is okeh. We prefer Lee Wiley's records (General Records)... "Baby Won't You Come Home" is better rendered by the O'Neil Spencer Quartet than by Ella Fitzgerald; both Deccan... Fats Waller is still very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds...
...Rigamaroie" by Duke Daly is just okeh--band in very heavy and never really gets swinging . . . Tommy Dorsey's "April Plays The Fiddle" gets our vote as the most likely new tune most competently played . . . Benny Goodman's "The Sheik" keeps up the good standard the sextet has set--and shows for the first time what excellent drumming Nick Fatool is capable of . . . "Bluin' the Blues" is another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown...
Other re-issues: "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"--okeh Louis Armstrong, which I suppose is pretty strong recommendation in itself . . . "Shake it and Break It"--King Oliver has played better trumpet than on this one . . . "Peggy" by McKinney's Cotton Pickers--a good example of the playing of the band which introduced powerful ensemble work to jazz . . . "New Orleans Twist"--even though the arrangement is swiped from "Black Magic" which he did for Casa Loma (Brunswick), the trumpet playing of Bunny Berigan and Wingy Mannone makes this Gene Gifford worth getting...