''1929–1933'' is a 1990

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collecting material recorded by

Henry "Red" Allen Henry James "Red" Allen, Jr. (January 7, 1908 – April 17, 1967) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose playing has been claimed by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and others as the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstr ...

and his orchestra during the years 1929 to 1933. The first of five CDs released by

Chronological Classics The Chronological Classics series consists of 965 jazz compact discs compiled by Gilles Pétard in France. Classics Records is a record company and label founded by Pétard in Paris in c. 1989. The company also reissued recording by Rhythm & blues a ...

, the album is rated part of the "core collection" by the ''

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''. Allen and

Coleman Hawkins Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Yanow, Scot"Coleman Hawkins: Artist Biography" AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2013. One of the first p ...

shared leadership of the band.

Critical reception

The album has been critically well received.

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, writing for

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, described it as "one of the best" of the series, with "many memorable sections." The authors of ''

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'' list the album as part of their "core collection".

Track listing

''All songs composed by Red Allen, except as otherwise noted.'' #"It Should Be You" – 3:10 #"Biff'ly Blues" – 3:26 #"Feeling Drowsy" – 3:36 #"Swing Out" (Allen,

J. C. Higginbotham J. (Jack) C. Higginbotham (May 11, 1906 – May 26, 1973) was an American jazz trombonist. His playing was robust and swinging. Biography He was born in Social Circle, Georgia, United States, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the 1930s a ...

) – 3:17 #"Make a Country Bird Fly Wild" (Allen,

Paul Barbarin Adolphe Paul Barbarin (May 5, 1899 – February 17, 1969) was an American jazz drummer from New Orleans. Career Barbarin grew up in New Orleans in a family of musicians, including his father, three of his brothers, and his nephew (Danny Barker) ...

) – 3:26 #"Funny Feathers" (

Victoria Spivey Victoria Regina Spivey (October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976), sometimes known as Queen Victoria, was an American blues singer and songwriter. During a recording career that spanned 40 years, from 1926 to the mid-1960s, she worked with Louis A ...

) – 2:58 #"How Do They Do It That Way?" (Spivey) – 3:19 #"Pleasin' Paul" (Allen, Barbarin) – 2:54 #"Sugar Hill Function" (

Charlie Holmes Charlie Holmes (January 27, 1910 near Boston, Massachusetts – September 19, 1985 in Stoughton, Massachusetts) was an American alto jazz saxophonist of the swing era. He also played clarinet and oboe for the Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra in ...

) – 3:03 #"You Might Get Better, but You'll Never Get Well" (

Louis Metcalf Louis Metcalf (February 28, 1905 - October 27, 1981) was an American jazz trumpeter who played for a short time with Duke Ellington. Early life Metcalf was born in Webster Groves, Missouri, United States. As a youth he first trained on the drums ...

Luis Russell Luis Russell (August 5, 1902 – December 11, 1963) was a pioneering Panamanian jazz pianist, orchestra leader, composer, and arranger. Career Luis Carl Russell was born on Careening Cay, near Bocas del Toro, Panama, in a family of African-Car ...

) – 3:07 #"Everybody Shout" (Barbarin, Russell) – 2:27 #"Dancing Dave" (Allen, Barbarin) – 3:11 #"Roamin' Smith" – 3:39 #"Singing Pretty Songs" (Allen, Barbarin, Russell) – 3:19 #"Patrol Wagon Blues" (

Porter Grainger Porter Grainger ( Granger; October 22, 1891 − October 30, 1948) was an American pianist, songwriter, playwright, and music publisher. Biography When Grainger was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the Granger family name did not include an "i". A ...

) – 3:22 #"I Fell in Love with You" – 3:30 #"Someday, Sweetheart" ( Benjamin Franklin Spikes,

John Spikes John Curry Spikes (July 22, 1881 – June 28, 1955) was an American jazz musician and entrepreneur. Along with his brother Reb Spikes, John ran a traveling show band in early 1900s. At one point, Jelly Roll Morton was a member of the band.''Th ...

) – 2:57 #"I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" (

Armand Piron Armand John "A.J." Piron (August 16, 1888 – February 17, 1943) was an American jazz violinist who led a dance band during the 1920s. Biography In 1915, Piron and Clarence Williams started the Piron and Williams Publishing Company. In their ...

) – 2:44 #"The River's Takin' Care of Me" ( Stanley Adams,

Jesse Greer Jesse Greer (August 26, 1896 New York City – October 3, 1970 Columbia, Connecticut) was an American Broadway songwriter. His musical '' Shady Lady'' was staged in 1933 with additional music by Sam H. Stept. Greer composed "Just You, Just Me" for t ...

) – 2:40 #"Ain'tcha Got Music?" (

James P. Johnson James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key ...

Andy Razaf Andy Razaf (born Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo; December 16, 1895 – February 3, 1973) was an American poet, composer and lyricist of such well-known songs as " Ain't Misbehavin'" and " Honeysuckle Rose". Biography Razaf was born in Washi ...

) – 2:48 #"Stringin' Along on a Shoe String" (

Harold Adamson Harold Campbell Adamson (December 10, 1906 – August 17, 1980) was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s. Early life Adamson, the son of building contractor Harold Adamson and Marion "Minnie" Campbell Adamson, was born and raised in ...

Burton Lane Burton Lane ( Levy; February 2, 1912 – January 5, 1997) was an American composer and lyricist primarily known for his theatre and film scores. His most popular and successful works include '' Finian's Rainbow'' in 1947 and ''On a Clear Day You ...

) – 2:47 #"Shadows on the Swanee" ( Johnny Burke,

Harold Spina Harold Spina (21 June 1906 – 18 July 1997) was an American composer of popular songs. His best-known work happened in the early 1930s, when he collaborated with lyricists Johnny Burke and Joe Young on songs such as "Annie Doesn't Live Her ...

, Joe Young) – 2:44 #"Hush My Mouth (If I Ain't Goin' South)" ( Michael Cleary,

Al Hoffman Al Hoffman (September 25, 1902 – July 21, 1960) was an American song composer. He was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number-one hits through each decade, many of wh ...

Maurice Sigler Maurice Sigler (November 30, 1901 – February 6, 1961) was an American banjoist and songwriter. Sigler was born in New York City but moved to Birmingham, Alabama at an early age, and received his musical tuition there. In the 1920s, Sigler wa ...

) – 3:01

Personnel

Bernard Addison Bernard Sylvester Addison (April 15, 1905 – December 18, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist. Career Addison was born in Annapolis, Maryland. At an early age, he learned mandolin and violin. Career After moving to Washington, D.C. in ...

–

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, guitar *

– trumpet, vocals *Henry Allen & His New York Orchestra *

Jimmy Archey Jimmy Archey (12 October 1902 – 16 November 1967) was an American jazz trombonist born in Norfolk, Virginia, perhaps most noteworthy for his work in several prominent jazz orchestras and big bands of his time (including his own). He performed ...

– trombone *

– drums,

vibraphone The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,' ...

* William Thornton Blue – clarinet,

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* Oliver Childs – bass, bass vocal *

Pops Foster George Murphy "Pops" Foster (May 19, 1892 – October 30, 1969) was an American jazz musician, best known for his vigorous slap bass playing of the string bass. He also played the tuba and trumpet professionally. Biography Foster was born to ...

– bass,

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* Four Wanderers – vocals *

–

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

Horace Henderson Horace W. Henderson (November 22, 1904 – August 29, 1988), the younger brother of Fletcher Henderson, was an American jazz pianist, organist, arranger, and bandleader. Henderson was born in Cuthbert, Georgia, United States. While later a ...

– piano *

– trombone * Ernest "Bass" Hill – brass bass *

Teddy Hill Teddy Hill (December 7, 1909 in Birmingham, Alabama – May 19, 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio) was an American big band leader and the manager of Minton's Playhouse, a seminal jazz club in Harlem. He played a variety of instruments, including dru ...

– baritone vocals, clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone *

– clarinet, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone * Herman Hughes – tenor saxophone, tenor vocals *

Edward Inge Edward Inge (May 7, 1906 – October 8, 1988) was an American jazz arranger and reedist. Inge was raised in Kansas City and played clarinet from age 12. He played with George Reynolds's Orchestra when he was 18, then worked with Dewey Jackson, A ...

– clarinet, alto saxophone *

Hilton Jefferson Hilton Jefferson (July 30, 1903 – November 14, 1968) was an American jazz alto saxophonist born in Danbury, Connecticut, United States, perhaps best known for leading the saxophone section from 1940–1949 in the Cab Calloway band. Jefferson ...

– alto saxophone * Maceo Johnson – baritone vocal, baritone saxophone, vocals *

Manzie Johnson Isham "Manzie" Johnson (August 19, 1906 – April 9, 1971) was an American jazz drummer. Johnson was raised in New York City, and played in Harlem in the 1920s with Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, and other stride pianists, before going on ...

– drums *

Otis Johnson Otis Samuel Johnson (born 1942) is an American social worker, educator and politician from the U.S. state of Georgia who served as the Mayor of Savannah from 2004 until 2012. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Background Mayor Johnson is ...

– trumpet *Walter Johnson – drums *Will Johnson – banjo, guitar, vocals * John Kirby – brass bass, baritone saxophone, string bass * Don Kirkpatrick – piano *

Benny Morton Benny Morton (January 31, 1907 – December 28, 1985) was an American jazz trombonist, most associated with the swing genre. Career He was born in New York, United States. One of his first jobs was working with Clarence Holiday, and he appear ...

– trombone *

Albert Nicholas Albert Nicholas (May 27, 1900 – September 3, 1973) was an American jazz clarinet player. Career Nicholas's primary instrument was the clarinet, which he studied with Lorenzo Tio in his hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Late ...

– clarinet, alto saxophone *

Russell Procope Russell Keith Procope (August 11, 1908 – January 21, 1981) was an American clarinetist and alto saxophonist who was a member of the Duke Ellington orchestra. Before Ellington Procope was born in New York City, United States, and grew up in S ...

– clarinet, alto saxophone *

– piano, celeste * Anatol Schenker –

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– vocals * Greely Walton – tenor saxophone *

Dicky Wells William Wells (June 10, 1907 – November 12, 1985), known professionally as Dicky Wells (sometimes Dickie Wells), was an American jazz trombonist. Career Dickie Wells is believed to have been born on June 10, 1907 in Centerville, Tennessee, Uni ...

– trombone * Bob Ysaguirre – brass bass, baritone saxophone, string bass, tuba

References

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