Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider

Red Nichols and His Five Pennies · 1927 · disque d'or

Context

Recorded in New York on August 15, 1927, for Brunswick, this Eddie Munson tune is the biggest hit of Red Nichols and his Five Pennies: it sold more than a million copies. The orchestra embodies a polished New York jazz, sometimes described as "chamber jazz."

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Dixieland (ODJB, 1917). Among the origins and influences of Dixieland: New Orleans jazz.

By the same artist

• I Got Rhythm (1930)

Sources

• adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Red Nichols
• syncopatedtimes.com

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