Cinderella Brown - Charleston Chasers - Columbia 2133-D

[JerryVan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tllb10K7MhY

Love this!

[gramophone-georg]

Agree- absolutely fantastic record. One of the Chasers' best. Thanks for posting it.

Here is another record by a band called "Mississippi Maulers" with the same basic personnel you might enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu69Nk07Ues

And another Chasers' favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFUrO6xF5Y

[JerryVan]

If one knew nothing else about them, one would assume that contributor names such as Fud Livingston and Dudley Fosdick would hold great promise!

All kidding aside, those are some great tunes and have been placed on my "wanted" list! THANKS! Happy you enjoyed Cinderella Brown.

[gramophone-georg]

If one knew nothing else about them, one would assume that contributor names such as Fud Livingston and Dudley Fosdick would hold great promise!

All kidding aside, those are some great tunes and have been placed on my "wanted" list! THANKS! Happy you enjoyed Cinderella Brown.

Just as a little background for the uninitiated... the Charleston Chasers was basically a Red Nichols Columbia studio group that was likely the brain child of Ben Selvin who was popular music director there while Nat Shilkret was at Victor- it was likely created to compete with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra. While less prolific and less known, the Chasers was nominally a Red Nichols group that boasted such 'revolving door' personnel as Miff Mole, Joe Venuti/ Eddie Lang, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Bros., Jack Teagarden, Eddie Walter, Roy Evans, and Eva Taylor at various times. At the end Benny Goodman took over leadership before the Chasers morphed into Benny Goodman's Orchestra- in fact, the Chasers' last record, "Basin Street Blues" / "Beale Street Blues" can be found as credited to either "The Charleston Chasers" (Directed by Bennie (sic) Goodman)" or Benny Goodman and his Orchestra... same catalog number and same matrices. Of course Benny and Red and Miff and sometimes Teagarden all played together in Red Nichols' Brunswick sessions, too. Any record by the Chasers or Nichols is well worth adding to a collection.

All these great 1920s white jazz guys basically "apprenticed" under Paul Whiteman, Sam Lanin, Nat Shilkret, Isham Jones, or Ben Selvin. You can still hear the influences from those days in Swing Era recordings when a lot of them became leaders in their own right- in the selection of tunes they played as well as some of the arrangements. Of course Fletcher Henderson, through Goodman, became a huge influence also.

It's really quite amazing just how intertwined all these folks were in the formative years, and how integrated the music was "underground".