Title: Alligator Crawl Artist: Bay City Jazz Band Label: Delmark Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 038153024222 Genre: Jazz Traditional Release Date: 2003-02-25 Number of Discs: 1
The Bay City Jazz Band recorded two LPs for the Good Time Jazz label in the 1950s. That's the same label that issued Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band, the band that started the west coast traditional jazz revival scene and influenced numerous groups including the Bay City Jazz Band. Three original Bay City members are on board: Everett Farey on trumpet, John Boland on clarinet and Lloyd Byassee on drums. They are joined by Chicago area musicians Bob Neighbor on trumpet, Jim Snyder on trombone, John Cooper on piano, Jack Kuncl on banjo, Mike Walbridge on tuba and guest vocalist (on one song) Grana Louise. The band played on three consecutive nights prior to this recording, so they really swing.
Tracks: 1.1 1919 Rag 1.2 Antigua Blues 1.3 Come Back Sweet Papa 1.4 Misery Blues 1.5 Potato Head Blues 1.6 London Blues 1.7 Mabel's Dream 1.8 You've Been a Good Ole Wagon 1.9 Buddy's Habit 1.10 See See Rider 1.11 Alligator Crawl 1.12 House of David Blues 1.13 Riverside Blues 1.14 Willie the Weeper 1.15 Gulf Coast Blues 1.16 Weary Blues
