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Complete Bennie Moten Vol 1/2 1926-1928

Label:    RCA – PM 42 410
Series:    Jazz Tribune – Nº 8, Double Black & White
Format:    Import, 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Gatefold
Country:    France
Released:    1981
Genre:    Jazz, Blues
Style:    Traditional, Ragtime, Boogie

A1        Thick Lip Stomp    2:48
A2        Thick Lip Stomp    2:44
A3        Harmony Blues    3:30
A4        Harmony Blues    3:06
A5        Kansas City Shuffle    2:47
A6        Yazoo Blues    2:43
A7        White Lightnin' Blues    3:30
B1        Muscle Shoals Blues    3:23
B2        Midnight Blues    2:57
B3        Missouri Wobble    3:07
B4        Sugar    2:47
B5        Dear Heart    3:11
B6        The New Tulsa Blues    3:03
B7        Baby Dear    3:01
C1        Twelfth Street Rag    3:19
C2        Pass Out Lightly    3:05
C3        Ding Dong Blues    3:10
C4        Ding Dong Blues    3:05
C5        Moten Stomp    2:56
C6        Justrite    2:40
C7        Slow Motion    2:36
D1        Tough Breaks    2:51
D2        It's Hard To Laugh Or Smile    2:41
D3        Sad Man Blues    3:17
D4        Kansas City Breakdawn    2:53
D5        Trouble In Mind    3:06
D6        Hot Water Blues    2:30
D7        Get Low Down Blues    2:56

Notes

    Mastered At – Disco France

    Lacquer Cut By – T* (tracks: A1 to A8), K* (tracks: B1 to D8)
    Liner Notes – Daniel Nevers
    Liner Notes [Translation] – Don Waterhouse
    Reissue Producer – Jean-Paul Guiter

 bio - Benjamin Moten (November 13, 1893 – April 2, 1935) was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

He led his Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the regional, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s, and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s big bands. The jazz standard "Moten Swing" bears his name.

 By 1928, Moten's piano was showing some boogie woogie influences, but the real revolution came in 1929, after he recruited Count Basie, Walter Page, and Oran 'Hot Lips' Page. Walter Page's walking bass lines gave the music an entirely new feel compared to the 2/4 tuba of his predecessor Vernon Page, colored by Basie's understated, syncopated piano fills. Another boon to the band was adding Jimmy Rushing as their primary vocalist.

Moten continued to be one of Victor's most popular orchestras through 1930. Their song "Kansas City Shuffle" was recorded during this time. (The band recorded prolifically, and many of their records were issued in Victor's regular series, not specifically marketed to the Black community as some other bands were.) - wikipedia

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