Tuba Skinny- Cushion Foot Stomp, Clarence Williams (1927) Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival

Salem County, NJ - September 3, 2022
Clarence Williams and his Washboard Five , Recorded April 13, 1927
Clarence Williams started a music publishing business with violinist/bandleader Armand J. Piron 1915, which by the 1920s was the leading African-American owned music publisher in the country. He was a piano player and toured briefly with W.C. Handy, set up a publishing office in Chicago, then settled in New York in the early 1920s He supervised African-American recordings (Race Series) for New York offices of Okeh phonograph company in the 1920s; He was responsible for recruiting many of the artists who performed on that label. He also recorded extensively, leading studio bands frequently for OKeh, Columbia and occasionally other record labels. He was the recording director for the short-lived QRS Records label in 1928. Most of his recordings were songs from his publishing house, which explains why he recorded tunes like Cushion Foot Stomp numerous times..
He mostly used "Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings" for his hot orchestra sides and "Clarence Williams' Washboard Five" for his washboard sides.
In this Okeh recording from April 13, 1927 he uses Ed Allen cornet, Buster Baily clarinet, himself piano and vocal, Cyrus St.Clair blowbass, ans Floyd Casey washboard.
Williams recording from 1927- • Cushion Foot Stomp -- ...

[@jeanclaudemeyer9188]

Quelle invention dans ce morceau fait pour les danseurs aux pieds aussi souples qu'un doux coussin! Intro géniale, dialogue tuba/cornet génial, washboard, etc., etc... !!!
Tuba Skynny reprend la composition de Clarence William sur un tempo, me semble-t'il, très légèrement plus lent et surtout il gomme la partie vocale de qui date un peu l'original.
Tuba Skinny est un orchestre de référence pour les grands titres du début du siècle dernier mais surtout il innove en proposant de nouveaux titres mêlant l'ancien et le moderne! Bravo!

[@tricia6338]

"MAH"VELOUS! SUPERB! THE BEST!

[@user-og1nb8xt8f]

Thank-you John for posting Tuba Skinny's great music plus your gem-like curatorial notes as always introducing to us Clarence Williams and his Washboard Five of almost 100 years ago.
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Cheers !!
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[@robertduis6730]

10 out of 10! Also a compliment for the SOUND-MAN! Every instrument sounds fantastic.

[@0412raine]

Love it thank you for sharing 💯🤩🙌

[@JohnDodds36]

Thanks for listening

[@berndreufsteck7577]

Spitzenklasse 👍😎

[@odds46]

I guess it makes sense that at a bluegrass festival they would give more prominence to banjo and to melodic guitar work.

[@lauraneville50]

Thank you so much!! just wonderful( as usual)

[@JazzCountryMusic]

John: Thanks!

[@rotunda57]

Say these guys are good. You think they would have been on Ed Sullivan by now.

[@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1]

🙃🤓👆

[@demef758]

Fabulous music, but there are still some dunderheads in the audience that want to chat instead. They could have stayed at home and done that! SHOULD have stayed home.