Zutty Singleton And The Clarinet Kings (Fat Cat's Jazz FCJ 100)

[Lazaro Vega]

Tonight's Jazz From Blue Lake features Zutty, and came across this one but don't know it, who plays on it or what quality of jazz is on it. Sometimes Zutty was put in an historic context even though he was "more" than a trad drummer, that is he adapted to the high hat, wire brushes, etc.

Edited May 15, 2007 by Lazaro Vega

[Chuck Nessa]

Tonight's Jazz From Blue Lake features Zutty, and came across this one but don't know it, who plays on it or what quality of jazz is on it. Sometimes Zutty was put in an historic context even though he was "more" than a trad drummer, that is he adapted to the high hat, wire brushes, etc.

The following is from Bruyninckx - Watch out for Fat Cat's vocals.

-Zutty and the Clarinet Kings- : Walter "Slide" Harris (tb) Tommy Gwaltney (cl) Sammy Rimington (cl,as-1)

Bob Greene (p) Van Perry (b) Zutty Singleton (d) Johnson "Fat Cat" McRee Jr (vcl,kazoo)

Manassas, Vir., February 12, 1967

Snake rag Fat Cat's Jazz FCJ100, "77" (E)LEU12/29

Nobody knows you when you're down and out

(jmr vcl) -

Doctor Jazz stomp - , -

Yellow dog blues (jmr vcl) - , -

When you wore a tulip (sr,bg only) -

Marie (1) - , -

Winin' boy blues -

Off all the wrongs you've done to me (jmr vc l) -

Royal garden blues (tg plays cl,vp out) -

You tell me your dream (sr,bg,vp,zs only) -

At sundown (*) -

Cakewalkin' babies back home (bg,vp,zs only) FCJ101

Trouble in mind (jmr vcl) - , -

Chinatown, my Chinatown (*) - , -

2:19 blues (jmr vcl) - , -

Wolverine blues no. 1 -

Corrine, Corrina -

Wolverine blues no. 2 (tg,sr,bg,zs only) -

Were you there when they crucified my Lord

(wsh,tg out) - , -

Shine (jmr vcl & kazoo)- , -

Note : (*) These 2 titles on ESC Recording Corp. 101.

Fat Cat's Jazz FCJ & FJC101 as "Zutty & the Clarinet Kings, Volume 1 & Volume 2" respectively.

"77" (E)LEU12/29 as "Zutty and the Clarinet Kings Vol. 1"

Zutty Singleton-J.C. Higginbotham All Stars : Bill Barnes (cnt) J.C. Higginbotham (tb) Noel Kalet (cl,

[Lazaro Vega]

Thanks Chuck. Did you ever have this one?

Also looking for Zutty with Jimmy Noone on record. My Bruyninckx is at work....

[Chuck Nessa]

Thanks Chuck. Did you ever have this one?

Also looking for Zutty with Jimmy Noone on record. My Bruyninckx is at work....

Most of the Fat Cat's are really lame suburban/white dixie dates and this was listened to and discarded.

Off the top, the only Zutty/Noone encounter I can think of is the Capitol Jazzmen date from 1943.

[Ted O'Reilly]

I remember some airchecks from the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre (sorry, "Theater") broadcasts in the spring of 1944, just before Noone died. Had them on LP, but don't know if they ever came out on CD. The album had further tracks with Barney Bigard and one Wade Whaley replacing Noone. Interesting for the historical aspect, and pretty good music.

The "Fat Cats" stuff was boring.

[Lazaro Vega]

Zutty with Joe Sullivan and Pee Wee Russell is marvelous, and the Fats Waller record "Moppin' and Boppin'" with Benny Carter on trumpet has some great Zutty.

Yes, the Capitol session was Noone's last and we played that out of the big Mosaic box, as well as the reunion with Bigard (they were part of Jelly Roll’s trio out put). I guess there aren't any commercial records with Noone from the early years, though of everything I read they did work together often.

Thanks for the word up on the Fat Cat recordings.

[jazzbo]

I like a few of the Fat Cat's stuff. . . but overall there's not much needs to be on cd. . .

Except. . . .

The Bechet airchecks from Storyville! One of the last treasure troves to get the really great cd reissue treatment.