Spinnin' The Webb

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Bob the Builder · #31 Post by **Bob the Builder** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:29 pm

What CD do you recomend to get all those recordings with Duke and Ivie Anderson?

Brian

main_stem · #32 Post by **main_stem** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:56 pm

CafeSavoy wrote:There aren't that many, but they're good; a couple with Ivie Anderson too.
Apparently Chick Webb and Johnny Hodges were friends and Duke had
helped Chick start his band. When I first came across Webb on Duke cds
i wondered about it, but then I read a bit about him in a Hodges interview.

Hodges was in Chick Webb's band before joining Duke's.

-Kevin

Bob the Builder · #33 Post by **Bob the Builder** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 11:43 pm

Here is an interesting site I came across.
You can listen to a lot of Chick Webb charts.

I have no idea where they got some of them. I've no idea what album they are off.
site
any one ever come across these verion of: Liza,

Here is another interesting Album I came across.
Ella Fitzgerald with some of The Chick Webb Orchestra
Newport Jazz Festival (1973)
album on allmusic

Brian

lindyholic · #34 Post by **lindyholic** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 12:30 am

Woah, I've never heard that version of Liza before, and damn it's good!

Harrison

CafeSavoy · #35 Post by **CafeSavoy** » Sat Dec 06, 2003 7:37 am

Bob the Builder wrote:What CD do you recomend to get all those recordings with Duke and Ivie Anderson?

Brian

Sadly it doesn't seem as if there is a complete Chick Webb discography on-line. But it seems that he did 4 songs with the Duke small groups recording as the Gotham Stompers

-My Honey Lovin' Arms - Ivie Anderson, vocal
-Did Anyone Ever Tell You - Ivie Anderson, vocal
-Alabamy Home
Where Are You? - Ivie Anderson, vocal

The best sources are either the Ivie Anderson cd which has 3 of the songs or the 2 disc Duke Small Group set which has all 4.

Ivie Anderson, Raisin' The Rent ['32-'37]
Duke Ellington, The Duke's Men- Small Groups Vol 1 Disk 2

Looking at the "appears on" section of allmusic it seems like he played on a few other recordings too. Notably, some Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Mezz Mezrow, and Willie "The Lion" Smith. Although i suspect that some of them are the same sessions since for example, the Benny Carter's _Devil's Holiday_ sessions are the Mezz Mezzrow Orchestra with Willie "The Lion" Smith.