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TRIXIE SMITH & HER DOWN HOME SYNCOPATORS
Here’s a nice 1941 UHCA reissue 78 by Trixie Smith with
her Down Home Syncopators, originally recorded in 1925. The
Down Home Syncopators were Louis Armstrong on coronet, Buster
Bailey on clarinet, Charlie Green on trombone, Fletcher Henderson
on piano and Charlie Dixon on bass. One helluva band.
If you study the United Hot Jazz Club of America label, you’ll
see a mention of The Commodore Music Shop along the bottom.
Milt Gabler was the guy who ran that shop. Milt was one of
the first to rescue and reissue early classic jazz sides which
had gone out of print. Milt also formed his own label, Commodore
Records, and recorded loads of fine jazz 78s including (when
Columbia refused to touch the song) Billie Holiday’s
sombre reading of the controversial Strange Fruit.
Milt went on to Decca Records where, among other things, he
produced an obscure Western Swing band by the name of Bill
Haley & His Comets who, of course, had just a bit
to do with changing the course of musical history with Rock
Around The Clock.
We heard Trixie and the gang on the June 5 edition of RRR.
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