Clarence Williams (with Eva Taylor): Texas Moaner Blues, All the Wrongs You Done To Me, Everybody Loves My Baby, If You Don't Believe Me, Mandy Make Up Yor Mind, I'm a Little Blackbird Looking For a Bluebird. Morton: King Porter (with Oliver), Wolverine. Mound City Blue Blowers: Barb Wire Blues, Moten: Baby Dear. Wolverines: Lazy Daddy. Red Onion Jazz Babies: Terrible Blues, All of the Wrongs You Have Done To Me. Henderson: My Rose Marie, Cotton Pickers Ball.
The Quincy Jones of early jazz Clarence Williams made Jazz a spotlight on virtuoso talent. Here assembled among his peers. Morton claimed he taught CWill to play. How many of these tunes he wrote is perhaps detected in a style that is his like Squabblin Blues even if he didn’t physically write them. Similarly Morton owned Tiger Rag even if not the copyright and owned Dr.Jazz even though it is an Oliver tune.
It’s not just a piano thing as CWill could also carry a tune and play the kazoo. He was a publisher and producer and pianist who could put together some of the greatest bands and music. Starting with Bessie Smith and Bechet and Armstrong. His New Orleans background was distinct from the New York traditions that led to the big bands. Rather later he delved into washboard. Here in comparison are his peers. An actual Clarence Williams collection show awaits the proper time and place, coming in 2025..
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