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

    “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