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Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra - My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now (unissued test)

Jean Goldkette And His Orchestra, directed by Harold Stokes, play Don Redman's arrangement of "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now". This is a Victor master pressing of the unissued (on 78) take 3. Harold Stokes, directing: Sterling Bose and ?Joe Hooven - trumpets / Pee Wee Hunt and Vernon Brown - trombones / Larry Tice (sometimes given as Tise) - 1st alto sax / Jack Cordaro - 2nd alto sax / Volly de Faut - tenor sax, clarinet, flute / Art Gronwall - piano / Van Fleming - banjo, guitar and vocals / Bill Short, sousaphone / Herb Quigley or Dee Orr - drums Recorded in Victor's studios at 952 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, on November 23, 1928. 48617-3 My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now Victor test pressing At the time this recording was made, Don Redman was leading McKinney's Cotton Pickers. The band was part of Jean Goldkette's organisation, having replaced Goldkette's famous "Victor Recording Band" - the band that included Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Trumbauer - at Goldkette's Graystone Ballroom in Detroit in September 1927. When the Bix-Tram outfit broke up, Goldkette re-established his "Victor Recording Band" in Kansas City and then, in 1928, in Chicago, where it was ensconced at the W-G-N radio station, performing a dual role as the station's house band. This is the band we hear on "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now". Solos are by Sterling Bose (trumpet), Pee Wee Hunt or Vernon Brown (trombone), Larry Tice (alto sax) and - in the last chorus - Volly de Faut (clarinet). When interviewed in the early 1950s, Sterling Bose remembered this recording session and stated that "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" was "a McKinney score". He also recalled that the Goldkette band could sound very similar to McKinney’s Cotton Pickers when playing such arrangements. Bose clearly demonstrates the influence of Bix Beiderbecke in his two-part trumpet solo. Before joining Goldkette’s band at the Pla-Mor Ballroom in Kansas City in late 1927, Bose had played and recorded with the Arcadian Serenaders, a small jazz group that in late 1925 and early 1926 played at the Arcadia Ballroom in St Louis, opposite Frankie Trumbauer’s band, which included Bix Beiderbecke. Bose and Bix struck up a ready friendship in St Louis, one that was cemented by the alcohol they imbibed as room-mates at the Coronado Hotel, where they resided for several months while working at the Arcadia. Now, all we need to establish is what and/or who makes that kissing noise at the very end of the recording! It sounds to me like some sort of sheet material (perhaps paper or textile?) being quickly ripped close to the microphone. Whatever it is, it makes for an odd yet strangely appealing alternative to the usual cymbal crash!