Unissued - JOE WATSONS GREEN MILL ORCH: "I'm Just A Vagabond Lover", Oct. 1929. скачать в хорошем качестве

Unissued - JOE WATSONS GREEN MILL ORCH: "I'm Just A Vagabond Lover", Oct. 1929.

An UNISSUED TEST PRESSING, originally belonging to the drummer in JOE WATSON'S GREEN MILL ORCHESTRA (Melbourne), the Australian jazz pioneer BENNY FEATHERSTONE, heard on this record in one of his first jazz gigs at the age of 17! This is a rare local Vocalion Melbourne studio product preserving the output of the band from the largest Melbourne dance hall of the 1920s, across the Yarra from Flinders Street Station, and next to Wirth's Olympia. The site is now occupied by the Victorian Arts Centre in St Kilda Road. Kerry Greenwood based one of her "MISS FISHER'S MYSTERIES" on the fabled Green Mill, though she portrayed it as a hole-in-the-wall jazz gig staffed by an Afro-American singer - far from the truth. It was a cavernous barn-like space, so big that when it burnt down, its lobby survived and was operated as a dance hall in itself up to the 1950s - the Melbourne Trocadero. The Green Mill Band was led by the American trumpeter Joe Watson, who had come to Australia in 1928 with the second visit of Ray Tellier's band. Others in the band: George Dobson tpt/ Don Binney - tbn/ Arthur Morton, Les Paine - as - clt/ Tiny McMahon - ts - clt/ George McWhinney - pno/ 'Tris' Hill - bjo/ Vic Wood - tbn/ Benny Featherstone - dms. An unknown member doubles on violin. Vocal by Joe Watson, George Dobson and another. Recorded at the Vocalion studio, 654 - 664 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Sept - Oct 1929.