Henderson: Hard Hearted Hannah, Houston Blues, A New Kind of Man (Redman on goofus), Driftwood, The Oriole Terrace Orchestra, Sobbin' Blues, Oh Mabel (Nick Lucas voc.), Copenhagen, Back Where the Daffodils Grow, Mandy Make Up Your Mind, Isham Jones: Land O' Lingo Blues, Gene Rodemich: Choo Choo, OTO: I Need Some Pettin', Abe Lyman: A New Kind of Man, OTO: That Lullaby Strain, Arnold Johnson: Sweet Lovin' Mama, Bennie Krueger: Wet Yo' Thumb, Abe Lyman: If You Do What You Do.
Nick Lucas lays a strong foundation on banjo and guitar. Rodemich gives a fun rendering of the Ellington train song.The durable Brunswick product (Henderson recorded on Brunswick but those are not included here) are of a high level of production quality.
Henderson is included here because dance band hit records like these Brunswicks are his niche. Henderson was not so dedicated to New Orleans jazz as were Clarence Williams, Bechet, Armstrong or Mezz. Paul Whiteman and hotel bands dominated the charts that Henderson competed in. Although Henderson was essential to the blues recording craze, and had a hot jazz band on some of those tunes, this apparently did not influence his dance band recording strategy although it made his bands sound more grounded and soulful than bands without that extensive blues commitment. Moten had that blues sound also and on Goofy Dust showed the Redman trademark exposure to humorous bands like the Goofus Five.
On “A New Kind of Man” Redman borrows from the Goofus 5 comic model, does a good job with the goofus and Charlie Green makes magic on the trombone. We hear the violin of Allie Ross on Driftwood. Hawkins steps up on these tunes.
Perhaps, the arrival of Bailey, Green and Armstrong represented less an evolution of jazz than a way of rising to the level of the nationally popular dance bands like OTO.
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