“Stomp Your Stuff” – Ray Miller and his Orchestra (1926)

Was flipping through my Ray Miller records and came across this jazzy dance tune – Didn’t see a transfer of this one anywhere on YouTube yet so here it is!

Vaya! Baile Ud.!

Thanks to a comment by @henridelagardere264 I did some additional research on composer Bill Krenz – who was born in 1899 not far from me in Rock Island, Illinois. This was Krenz’ first composition – and he went on to write many more – including “Starlight Rendezvous” which was performed by Tommy Dorsey and a number of minor rags in the 1950s such as “Boogie Woogie Russian Rag”, “Poodle Rag”, and “Ramblin’ Rag”.

Krenz played a solo piano set at the Bix Lives! Memorial Jazz Festival in Davenport in 1974 – so I wonder if he had moved back to the Quad Cities by that point?

Recorded in New York City on March 9, 1926.
Released as Brunswick 3132.

Credits:
Ray Miller – director
Charlie Margulis, Bob Howard – trumpet
Andy Sindelar, Mike Durso – trombone
Volly de Faut – clarinet, alto sax
Fred Crissey – alto sax
Karl Spaeth – tenor sax
Herman Kaplan – violin
Bill Krenz, Joe Breitenbach – piano
Happy Mansfield – tuba
Tony Briglia – drums