Steppin' on the Blues

• Artist: Tommy Ladnier
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• Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Total Time: 74:28
• Type: Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Jazz

Review

Early New Orleans/Chicago based cornest and trumpeter Tommy Ladnier is featured in a variety of settings as a leader and soloist on the 25 tracks of Steppin' on the Blues. Seen by some as the second Louis Armstrong, Ladnier not only took Armstrong's place in the King Oliver band but also played with most of the major blues and jazz artists of the time as sampled on this disc. These recordings date back as early as 1923 following Ladnier's up and down career through 1939 the year he died of a heart attack when he was just starting to enjoy a comeback. While the sound quality is only as good as technology provided in the '20s and '30s, these are historic early hot jazz and blues sessions with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Sidney Bechet's New Orleans Feetwarmers, Mezz Mezzrow's Orchestra, Bessie Smith, Rosetta Crawford and Her Hep Cats, Ida Cox, Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders, and Ollie Powers and His Harmony Syncopaters. ~ Al Campbell, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Play That Thing	Ollie Powers	Tommy Ladnier	(3:00)
Ida's Cox's Lawdy, Lawdy Blues		Tommy Ladnier	(2:53)
Kentucky Man Blues		Tommy Ladnier	(2:57)
Steppin' on the Blues	Tommy Ladnier, Lovie Austin	Tommy Ladnier	(2:28)
Travelin' Blues	Blind Willie McTell, Lovie Austin	Tommy Ladnier	(2:40)
Galion Stomp	Lovie Austin	Tommy Ladnier	(3:07)
The Chant	Victor Feldman, Mel Stitzel	Tommy Ladnier	(2:57)
Snag It	King Oliver	Tommy Ladnier	(3:11)
St. Louis Shuffle	Fats Waller, Jack Pettis, J. Pettis	Tommy Ladnier	(3:03)
Dying' by the Hour	George Brooks	Tommy Ladnier	(3:02)
Foolish Man Blues	Bessie Smith	Tommy Ladnier	(2:55)
Sweetie Dear	Joe Jordan	Tommy Ladnier	(2:51)
I've Found a New Baby	Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams	Tommy Ladnier	(3:15)
Maple Leaf Rag	Scott Joplin	Tommy Ladnier	(2:59)
Shag	Joe Jordan	Tommy Ladnier	(3:08)
Comin' On With the Come On, Pt. 2	Mezz Mezzrow	Tommy Ladnier	(3:02)
Weary Blues	George Cates, Artie Matthews, Mort Greene	Tommy Ladnier	(3:03)
Really the Blues	Mezz Mezzrow	Tommy Ladnier	(3:40)
When You and I Were Young, Maggie	James Austin Butterfield, George Washington Johnson	Tommy Ladnier	(2:44)
Ja-Da	Bob Carlton	Tommy Ladnier	(2:55)
Royal Garden Blues	Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams	Tommy Ladnier	(3:10)
If You See Me Comin'	Teddy Bunn, Mezz Mezzrow	Tommy Ladnier	(3:06)
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll	Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams	Tommy Ladnier	(3:01)
Everybody Loves My Baby	Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams	Tommy Ladnier	(2:28)
Double Crossin' Papa	Perry Bradford	Tommy Ladnier	(2:44)

Credits

Fats Waller (Organ), Charlie Dixon (Banjo), Fletcher Henderson (Piano), Manzie Johnson (Drums), Vic Bellerby (Compilation), Johnny Dodds (Clarinet), Sidney DeParis (Cornet), Eustern Woodfork (Banjo), Buster Bailey (Clarinet), Benny Morton (Trombone), Phil Duffy (Design), Martin Haskell (Remastering), Teddy Nixon (Trombone), Teddy Bunn (Guitar), Ida Cox (Vocals), Sidney Bechet (Clarinet), Bass Moore (Tuba), June Cole (Tuba), Pops Foster (Bass), Don Redman (Clarinet), Don Redman (Sax (Alto)), Ray Crick (Compilation), Eddie Vincent (Trombone), Zutty Singleton (Drums), Coleman Hawkins (Sax (Tenor)), Kid Ory (Trombone), Vic Bellerby (Liner Notes), Tommy Ladnier (Trumpet), Mezz Mezzrow (Clarinet), Lovie Austin (Vocals), Hank Duncan (Piano), Tommy Ladnier (Cornet), Jimmy Harrison (Trombone), Morris Morland (Drums), Wilson Myers (Bass), Sidney Bechet (Sax (Soprano)), Alex Calamese (Cornet), Elmer James (Bass), Junie C. Cobb (Clarinet), Wilson Myers (Scat)