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CHARLES CREATH'S JAZZ-O-MANIACS - CRAZY QUILT - ROARING 20'S 1928 EDISON C-2


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Crazy indeed! This Okeh Electric 8477 from May 2, 1927 is the last of only 13 sides from this orchestra, but boy did they go out with a bang!

\"Creath's band was part of a very active St. Louis, Missori jazz scene of the 1920s which included trumpeters Dewey Jackson and Ed Allen who tended to play in a pre-Louis Armstrong NOLA-inluenced style. Jackson and Creath stayed in St.Louis into the 1930s while Allen went on to Chicago and then NY where he often played with Clarence Williams. The groups played both in clubs in town and on the Streckfuss riverboats. Two interesting articles on the 1920s St. Louis scene from different generations are: Marshall Stearns, \"Dark Lad Creath Introduced the Stomach Vibrato\", Downbeat 4,10 {Oct. 1937} and David Chevan, \"Riverboat Music from St. Louis\" Black Music Research Journal, 9.2 {Fall 1989}.\"


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