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- Artist: Miff Mole
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- Release Date: June 23, 1998
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Jazz
Review
One of the top trombonists of the second half of the 1920s, Miff Mole had a highly original style that featured wide-interval jumps and occasional whole-tone scales. Other than two big-band selections from 1937, all of his recordings as a leader prior to 1944 are on Slippin' Around, Vol. 1 and Slippin' Around Again, Vol. 2. Vol. 1 includes 14 numbers by Miff Mole's Molers of 1927-1928, a recording band that was basically Red Nichols' Five Pennies: cornetist Nichols, Mole, pianist Arthur Schutt, guitarist Dick McDonough, and drummer Vic Berton, plus reedist Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Tarto on tuba, drummer Ray Bauduc, Fud Livingston on reeds, bass saxophonist Adrian Rollini, and guitarist Eddie Lang on various tracks. Mole's four numbers backing stage singer Sophie Tucker (who sounds pretty strong in 1927), four cuts with Red & Miff's Stompers, two by the Red Nichols Orchestra, and a pair of test pressings from a Mole session in 1930 (with trumpeter Phil Napoleon) wrap up this intriguing set. Highlights include adventurous versions of "Hurricane," "Delirium," "Davenport Blues," "Imagination," and "Feeling No Pain." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | Irving Berlin | Miff Mole | (2:51) |
| Some Sweet Day | Tony Jackson, |
Miff Mole | (3:06) |
| Hurricane | Paul Mertz | Miff Mole | (2:47) |
| Delirium | Arthur Schutt | Miff Mole | (3:07) |
| Davenport Blues | Bix Beiderbecke | Miff Mole | (3:06) |
| Davenport Blues | Bix Beiderbecke | Miff Mole | (3:07) |
| The Darktown Strutters' Ball | Shelton Brooks | Miff Mole | (2:54) |
| A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight | Paul Mertz | Miff Mole | (2:52) |
| After You've Gone | Henry Creamer, Turner Layton | Sophie Tucker, Miff Mole | (2:49) |
| I Ain't Got Nobody | Roger Graham, Spencer Williams, Dave Peyton | Sophie Tucker, Miff Mole | (2:29) |
| One Sweet Letter from You | Lew Brown, Harry Warren, Sidney Clare | Miff Mole, Sophie Tucker | (2:42) |
| Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong | Fred Fisher, |
Miff Mole, Sophie Tucker | (2:49) |
| Imagination | Fud Livingston | Miff Mole | (2:56) |
| Feelin' No Pain | Fud Livingston | Miff Mole | (2:55) |
| Original Dixieland One-Step | Joe Jordan, Russell Robinson, Nick LaRocca | Miff Mole | (2:50) |
| My Gal Sal | Paul Dresser | Miff Mole | (3:08) |
| Honolulu Blues | Miff Mole | (2:51) | |
| The New Twister | Miff Mole | (3:05) | |
| Slippin' Around | Miff Mole | Miff Mole | (2:51) |
| Feelin' No Pain | Fud Livingston | Miff Mole | (3:12) |
| Harlem Twist | Chauncey Morehouse, Fud Livingston | Red Nichols, Miff Mole | (2:54) |
| Five Pennies | Red Nichols | Red Nichols | (3:29) |
| One Step to Heaven (Windy City Stomp) | Miff Mole | (3:02) | |
| Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble | Spencer Williams | Miff Mole | (3:03) |
| Navy Blues | Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk | Miff Mole | (3:27) |
| Lucky Little Devil | Miff Mole | (3:30) |
