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Profoundly Blue
EDMOND HALL
 ASV Mono
Living Era
CD AJA 5410
Edmond Hall & His Celeste Quartet
- Edmond Hall Blues
- Jammin’ in Four
- Profoundly Blue
Billy Holiday Orchestra
- Me Myself & I
Lionel Hampton Orchestra
- My Buddy
Red Allen Orchestra
- Down in Jungle Town
- Canal St. Blues
Zutty Singleton Orchestra
- King Porter Stomp
- Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble
Edmond Hall and his Blue Note Jazz Men
- High Society
- Night Shift Blues
Coleman Hawkins with The Leonard Feather All Stars
- Esquire Blues
Edmond Hall Sextet
- The Man I Love
- Downtown Café Boogie
Edmond Hall & his All Star Quintet
- Rompin’ in 44
- Smooth Sailin’
Edmond Hall Swingtet
- It’s Been So Long
- Big City Blues
Edmond Hall & his Quartet with Teddy Wilson
- Sleepy Time Girl
- It Had to be you
- Caravan
- Showpiece
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This album is loaded with other famous jazzmen as well
as Ed Hall, Red Allen, Emmett Berry, Harry Carney, Benny Carter, Charlie
Christian, Vic Dickenson. Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, James P Johnson,
Meade Lux Lewis, Red Norvo, Zutty Singleton, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson
and Lester Young all put in appearances. This gives some idea of the
awe Ed was held in by his fellow musicians.
He is famous for two reasons, one he played throughout
the world with the Louis Armstrong All stars, and secondly he turned
down the opportunity to join the Duke Ellington Orchestra when Barney
Bigard left! He played in the Armstrong Band for 3 years and afterwards
was a firm favourite of the crowd at Condon’s in New York. He played
Alto Sax as well and played in many of the popular dance bands of the
thirties before becoming a jazz specialist. He always played an Albert
system clarinet even when the majority of his contemporaries had changed
to the Boehm System. This type of clarinet does not have all the alternative
fingerings of the newer system, which makes his fluent technique on
the instrument even more remarkable.
In the grand scheme of things Ed Hall was not a New
Orleans clarinet player, he was more modern and had more technique than
that, on the other hand he was not a Benny Goodman either. His tone
was warmer than Goodman’s but nobody has been able to match Goodman
for sheer technique. Ed was a force to be reckoned with, he had a neat
style and strong improvisational ability and was highly regarded by
his colleagues, ASV has done us all a favour in bringing his music back
to our attention.
Don Mather
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