George Lewis

Keeper of the Flame - 8Cd Box + 28 Page Booklet (JAZZ)

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Keeper of the Flame - 8Cd Box + 28 Page Booklet

George Lewis

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STA 140773

JAZZ

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Keeper of the Flame - 8Cd Box + 28 Page Booklet

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George Lewis was born in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th Century. It was a perfect time and place for someone of his natural talent to come into this world, no other city had as rich a musical life as that which moved through the streets of New Orleans, and George Lewis arrived there just as it all came together and blossomed in to jazz.

This boxed set contains 127 recorded instances of George Lewis.

PERSONNEL:

CD1 & 2:
Kid Howard (tp & vo) Jim Robinson (tb) George Lewis (cl)
Alton Purnell (p & vo) Lawrence Marrero (bjo)
Alcide Pavageau (b) Joe Watkins (dr & vo)
Recorded at Ohio State University,Columbus, Ohio, March 3, 1954.

CD3:
Track 1-11: Avery Kid Howard (tp & vo) Jim Robinson (tb) George Lewis (cl)
Alton Purnell (p & vo) Lawrence Marrero (bjo) Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau (b)
Joe Watkins (dr & vo)
Howard and Robinson do not appear on “Burgundy Street Blues”
Recorded, Bakersfield, California, May 28, 1954.
Track 12-16: Percy Humphrey (tp) Jim Robinson (tb) George Lewis (cl)
Jeanette Kimball (p) Johnny St. Cyr (g) McNeal Breaux (b) Paul Barbarin (dr)
Elizabeth Eustis (vo)
Recorded in New Orleans June 17, 1954

CD4:
Avery “Kid” Howard (tp & vo) Jim Robinson (tb) George Lewis (cl) Alton Purnell (p & vo)
Lawrence Marrero (bjo & vo) Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau (b)
Joe Watkins (dr & vo) Lizzie Miles (vo)
Recorded at Club Hangover San Francisco, November 7, 14 & 27, 1953

CD5:
Avery “Kid” Howard (tp) Wendell Eugene (tb) George Lewis (cl) Alton Purnell (p)
Lawrence Marrero (bjo) Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau (b) Joe Watkins (dr)
Recorded at Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, December 17, 1954.

CD6:
Finn Otto Hansen (tp) Arne Bue Jensen (tb) George Lewis (cl,vo,)
Jørgen Svare (cl) Bjarne Petersen (bjo) Mogens Seidelin (b)
Ib Lindschouw (dr) Omit Jørgen Svare on track 1
Recorded March 24 & 25, 1959 in Copenhagen.

CD7:
Track 1-8: Avery Kid Howard (tp,vo) George Lewis (cl) Jim Robinson (tb)
Alton Purnell (p & vo) Lawrence Marreo (bjo) Alcide Pavageau (b)
Joe Watkins (dr & vo) Monette Moore (vo)
Recorded October 26, 1953, Los Angeles.
Track 9-22: Kid Howard (tp) Jim Robinson (tb) George Lewis (cl) Alton Purnell (p)
Alcide Pavageau (b) Joe Watkins (dr & vo) Lizzie Miles (vo)
Recorded Dec. 19, 1953 & Jan. 2, 1954, at Hangover Club, San Francisco

CD8:
Kid Howard (tp) Jim Robinson (tb) George Lewis (cl) Alton Purnell (p & vo)
Lawrence Marrero (bj) Alcide “Slow Drag” Pavageau (b) Joe Watkins (dr & vo)
Recorded at Hangover Club, San Francisco, November 21, 1953