Ike Quebec 45 Sessions Being Reissued - Vinyl & CD

[JSngry]

That Davis trio of the early 50's with Floyd Smith and Chris Columbus seems to have been pretty popular in it's day. What I've been able to hear of them has certainly been fun!

Hell, Duke carried him in the band for a little bit!

 

[Dub Modal]

On 10/29/2025 at 10:06 PM, JSngry said:

That Davis trio of the early 50's with Floyd Smith and Chris Columbus seems to have been pretty popular in it's day. What I've been able to hear of them has certainly been fun!

Hell, Duke carried him in the band for a little bit!

 

That was really good. I don't know who the drum and bass players are but damn. 

Listening to this set now via the BN Connoisseur CDs, specifically the tracks with Edwin Swanston right now. Looks like he recorded a whole lot more on the piano. His organ playing is good and heavily blues based, at least on these tracks. His write up on discogs makes it sound like he was a good dude. 

[JSngry]

Rufus Jones in drums. Bassist was either Victor Gaskin or Joe Benjamin.

[Holy Ghost]

On 10/27/2025 at 12:51 PM, Peter Friedman said:

So to refer to jazz organists as sounding like Roller Rink Roly Poly organists is, in my view far far from accurate.

Peter,

My fault. I did not express specifically what I meant by hoaky "roller-rink" organists. On Quebec's 45 sessions, it does have that hoaky "roller-rink" organ sound, but by no means, did I mean to include, group, catergorize or generalize other organists within the organ genre, such as Larry Young, Lonnie Smith, or John Patton, who don't sound like hoaky roller-rink organists whatsoever! Just Edwin Swanston, Sir Charles Thompson, and Earl Van Dyke do sound like hoaky roller-rink organists. My opinion, of course.

Hope that clarifies my postion.

HG

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Holy Ghost

[Big Beat Steve]

2 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Just Edwin Swanston, Sir Charles Thompson, and Earl Van Dyke do sound like hoaky roller-rink organists.

I guess I'll have to search high and low among my LPs by Sir Charles Thompson to see if he is on organ there somewhere so as to find out what you mean by that "roller rink" sound. 
Sorry if this sounds blunt, but that's a connotation that does not mean much over here in "Yurp". Fairground organ sounds, maybe?

Edited 3 hours ago by Big Beat Steve

[mikeweil]

I highly recommended the two vokumes on Ocium with early, mostly Okeh trecordings o f Wild Bill Davis. Much fun to listen to.