Red McKenzie (Mound City Blue Blowers): When My Sugar Walks Down The Street, Charles H. Booker: Pencil Papa Blues, Ford and Ford: Skeeg-A-Lee Blues, Varsity Eight: Last Night on the Back Porch, Fletcher Henderson Orch.: Swanee River Blues, It Won’t Be Long, War Horse Mama, Steppin’ Out, Mama’s Goin’ to Slow You Down, Those Broken Busted Blues, You’ll Never Go to Heaven With Those Eyes, Forsaken Blues, Strutter’s Drag, I Don’t Know and I Don’t Care, Dixie Moon.
One assumes it was Redman who took the Rollini pill adding a bass sax and goofus with Chambers in the Bill Moore role. Unlike the small Rambler groups, Henderson had Hawkins on tenor in duets with Redman and soloing, giving the unique full Hawkins sound. And Hawkins could play bass sax as in several here. Chambers is also inspired. This period of 1924 was prolific and innovative before the expansion to a big band sound. Notable that the next year Bobby Davis and Rollini were a premier star sax section.
The Varsity 8 deliver an over the top version of the Whiteman hit Last Night on the Back Porch. Ford and Ford are in front of Lovie Austin, Tommy Ladnier and Johnny Dodds with a frank blues conversation. Booker demonstrates blues saxophone lead. Red McKenzie isn’t the only star named Red, but in 1924 he made hit records with a comb, a kazoo backing him up and the great Eddie Lang, so Red it is.
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