“Zowie” – McPhail’s Jazz Orchestra of Chicago (1921)

Lindsay McPhail is perhaps best known as the co-composer of the jazz standard “San”, which was performed by countless orchestras in the 1920s and beyond.

Here we find him leading a band in Chicago in the early 1920s, recording his original rag-a-jazz composition “Zowie” for the Olympic label with a small group of unknown musical collaborators.

Recorded at 156 Meadow Street, Long Island City, New York in June 1921.
Released as Olympic 15123.

Credits
Lindsay McPhail – piano, director
Doc Berendsohn – clarinet
Unknown Artists – cornet, trombone, drums