Here’s the original recording of “Dreaming the Hours Away” by Clarence Williams’ Jazz Kings. If you liked my video of the Jazz-O-Maniacs from yesterday it might interest you to hear it.
A fun fact about this session is that it included “The Hawk” Coleman Hawkins, who was playing with the Fletcher Henderson orchestra at this time.
This was from Williams’ first session of 1928 and it begins with a short ensemble intro before going into a 16 bar chorus with clarinetist Buster Bailey followed by 16 bars of cornetist Ed Allen stating the main melody. After 16 bars of ensemble playing, we hear Ed Allen solo followed by the Hawk on tenor. Ed Cuffee brings it home with a trombone solo accompanied by clarinets.
I had bid on this record a month ago and coincidentally, it arrived yesterday right as I was posting the Jazz-O-Maniacs version, which if you haven’t seen, you can view here:
https://youtu.be/xkPPsT0-Isw
It’s a fairly clean copy – with some minor blasting during loud transients in a couple of passages.
Recorded in New York City on January 12, 1928.
Released as Columbia 14287-D.
Credits:
Ed Allen – cornet
Ed Cuffee – trombone
Buster Bailey – clarinet, alto sax
Coleman Hawkins – clarinet, tenor sax
Clarence Williams – piano
Leroy Harris – banjo
Cyrus St. Clair – tuba
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