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Blues Sure Have Got Me
Words and music by Don Redman and C. Stanton
Performed by McKinney's Cotton Pickers, vocal refrain by Don Redman
Recorded July 29, 1930, Camden, NJ
Personnel: Don Redman (alto sax, arranger, vocal), George Thomas, James Dudley (alto saxes), Prince Robinson (tenor sax, clarinet), John Nesbitt, Langston Curl (trumpet), Edward Cufee (trombone), Todd Rhodes (piano), Dave Wilbourn (banjo), Ralph Escudaro (tuba), Cuba Austin (drums)
Although recorded in 1930, this was first released in 1945 as part of the McKinney's Cotton Pickers Victor Hot Jazz Series.
Don Redman was born in Piedmont, West Virginia, July 29, 1900. At a very early age he played trumpet in a street band then advanced to the piano and then to arranging. At Storer College in his home state, he studied music theory, harmony and composition while learning various instruments in the jazz orchestra. In 1925, Redman joined the Fletcher Henderson band as an alto saxophonist and arranger. In 1927 he joined up with McKinney's along with a few other members of Henderson's band. The McKinney's Cotton Pickers toured across the midwest to the East playing at Roseland in New York and the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit. McKinney's has been described as a "musician's band," not because it lacked a broad public but because its discoveries, like those of Ellington, were a source of inspiration and education, to jazzmen.
[Reference: "The Hot Jazz of McKinney's Cotton Pickers" by Charles Edward Smith]
Blues Sure Have Got Me
Words and music by Don Redman and C. Stanton
Performed by McKinney's Cotton Pickers, vocal refrain by Don Redman
Recorded July 29, 1930, Camden, NJ
Personnel: Don Redman (alto sax, arranger, vocal), George Thomas, James Dudley (alto saxes), Prince Robinson (tenor sax, clarinet), John Nesbitt, Langston Curl (trumpet), Edward Cufee (trombone), Todd Rhodes (piano), Dave Wilbourn (banjo), Ralph Escudaro (tuba), Cuba Austin (drums)
Although recorded in 1930, this was first released in 1945 as part of the McKinney's Cotton Pickers Victor Hot Jazz Series.
Don Redman was born in Piedmont, West Virginia, July 29, 1900. At a very early age he played trumpet in a street band then advanced to the piano and then to arranging. At Storer College in his home state, he studied music theory, harmony and composition while learning various instruments in the jazz orchestra. In 1925, Redman joined the Fletcher Henderson band as an alto saxophonist and arranger. In 1927 he joined up with McKinney's along with a few other members of Henderson's band. The McKinney's Cotton Pickers toured across the midwest to the East playing at Roseland in New York and the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit. McKinney's has been described as a "musician's band," not because it lacked a broad public but because its discoveries, like those of Ellington, were a source of inspiration and education, to jazzmen.
[Reference: "The Hot Jazz of McKinney's Cotton Pickers" by Charles Edward Smith]
