Jazz Battle

Jabbo Smith and His Rhythm Aces · 1929 · Une des dix-neuf faces Brunswick de 1929

Context

Recorded in Chicago in 1929 by Jabbo Smith's Rhythm Aces for Brunswick, this track is one of the nineteen sides cut between January and August of that year. It shows the agility of the trumpeter, then one of Armstrong's rival voices in Chicago.

In the genealogy of jazz

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

Sources

• jazz.com
• syncopatedtimes.com

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