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Wild Bill Davison


Larry Kart

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If you don’t know this album already, you’re in for a treat. Wild Bill, Kenny Davern, pianist  Charlie Queener and Geroge Wettling (no bassist) recorded in 1968 in a club in Columbus, Ohio. All in fine form, but Davison and Wettling are out of sight; it was Wettling's trio (and probably his final recording; he died in '68); Wild Bill sat in and recorded it all himself on his own tape machine — good sound too.

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Can't say that I'm a "fan" of Wild Bill, but I avoided him for a loooong time becuase I had him associated with cornball striped-vest rah-rah type "Dixieland" music. but then, somebody here, I forgot who, maybe Lon, maybe Chuck, said, no, you're doing yourself a real disservice by not checking this guy out, he can really play. So I did, and of course, they were right about that. Totally.

I'm tempted to look for the CD in question because between Columbus ,Ohio and a pianist named Charlie Queener, I'm thinking that this is a chance to hear a combined jazz perspective that you'd not find everyday, especially not in real time today.

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Wild Bill made a really good record in Toronto that virtually launched John Norris' Sackville label back in 1968.  "The Jazz Giants" featured Benny Morton on trombone, Herb Hall (Edmond's brother) on clarinet and a rhythm section of Claude Hopkins, Arvell Shaw and Buzzy Drootin.  I don't know if the Delmark version of Sackville carries it, but it did get released as a CD back in 1986, but it's one worth seeking if you like some solid dixie/swing played by distinctive musicians.  (The catalogue # was Sackville SKCD2-3002.)

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  • 2 weeks later...

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Mosaic left this off a box they did (one of the Columbias ... Condon Mob?) because it was readily available when they put that set together. Well, by the point I got it, the CD was OOP and it took me a few attempts to get it, but it's gorgeous indeed!

I could certainly do with a few more of his albums, though I have him as a soloist/sideman on countless earlier sessions (Condon et al.), so thanks for the recommendations!

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