Jack Pettis and His Band – Muddy River (A Mississippi Moan) For Trot (Trent-De Rose, Richman) Imperial 1927 (Produced in UK)
NOTE: Jack PETTIS (b. 1902 in Emandale Indiana – d. 1963 in Oklahoma City) – American c-sax player who started his career in Chicago, performing with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. In 1924 he moved to NYC and joined the influential Ben Bernie’s orchestra. Jack Pettis became among the first saxophonist to be heard in a film utilizing de Forest's early Phonofilm process playing an historic solo on \"Sweet Georgia Brown\" with the Bernie’s band. Highly praised for his agitated hot style of playing, Jack Pettis established in 1926 his own band in addition to continuing to appear as a sideman for sessions with Ben Bernie and other top jazz musicians of the period, such as Phil Napoleon, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Tony Parenti, Frank Signorelli. Aside from being an instrumentalist, Pettis was a composer whose original works included \"St. Louis Shuffle\", \"A Bag O' Blues\" and \"Freshman Hop\", and he also co-authored the widely played \"Bugle Call Rag\" with Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel. In 1930s Jack Pettis stopped appearing on records (his one and only recording session happened in 1937) and he completely vanished from the New York music scene by 1940 leading to many rumors as to the cause of his mysterious disappearance.
This UK release was originally recorded in NY. Interestingly, British editors made a funny mistake on the label with the name of the composer: instead of “Richman” they put “Richmond” which is the name of a fancy neighborhood in SW London.
