Teddy Walters with the Cozy Cole All Stars

[Canard]

My son gave me a used CD box set, The Keynote Jazz Collection 1941 to 1947.

Keynote Jazz Collection - The Keynote Jazz Collection 1941-1947 (11-CD Box Set) - Blue Sounds

Buy The Keynote Jazz Collection 1941-1947 (11-CD Box Set) by Keynote Jazz Collection on Blue Sounds Store. Released by Fresh Sound Records.

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It is pretty cool. I am only through disks 1 and 2 of 11.

On volume 2, there are some recordings of The Cosy Cole All Stars from 1944. A guitarist named Teddy Walters is featured on electric guitar. I had never heard of him before. He died young at 38. There is no Wikipedia article for him. But Discogs has a brief bio:

Teddy Walters

Teddy Walters Discography at Discogs

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He was quite the player for his day.

 

[Canard]

Play lists for Volumes 1 and 2:

 

[wileypickett]

That looks like a great set. I have some Cosy Cole reissues on LP, but not sure which tracks, if any, are with Walters. But a great band. Cool to see them mentioned here — pat your son on the back for me!

 

[Canard]

The box set seems to keep getting better. So far there isn't a lot of guitar featured, however.

On disk two there was some Freddie Green, Count Basie's famous rhythm guitarist, but it was often hard to hear that he was there comping away. There was also Teddy Walters as noted above.

On disk three is another guitarist who is completely new to me, Brick Fleagle. Like Green, he seems not to have been a soloist, rhythm only. But he was apparently in great demand because he was a skilled composer and because he was a total whiz with a pencil and notation paper, a great arranger and copyist - highly valued in his day.

Brick Fleagle - Musician Biographies

The musician whose name appears like a word jumble started banjo at age 17 during a time when that i

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Two Fleagle compositions performed by Rex Stewart's Big Eight, with Fleagle comping.

 

[Canard]

Disk Three Playlist:

 

[Canard]

Volume four continues to be excellent.

There is more background/texture comping from Brick Fleagle, and there is more of the same from another guitarist I have never heard of, Remo Palmier (originally Palmieri).

Here he is much later in 1978 with Herb Ellis. What's not to like?

 

[Canard]

Volume 5 has an embarrassment of guitar riches.

There are a number of guitarist here, one famous, Les Paul (playing actual Jazz), and three not so famous, Hy White, Billy Bauer, and Alan Ruess.

Hy White is on the Horace Henderson Orchestra tracks, Billy Bauer is on the Bill Harris and His Septet tracsk, Les Paul is on the Willie Smith and His Orchestra tracks, and Alan Ruess is on the Corky Corchran and His Orchestra Tracks.

Some cool vintage playing!




Hy White:

Scotsman (fretboard whiz - guitars and lutes and whatever -- and sometimes denizen of Jazzguitar.be), Rob MacKillop, post an affectionate tribute here:​

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Hy White – the 5th Beatle (not quite)

Hy White is another of those great players from the late 30s through 50s who should be much better known to today’s jazz aficionados. He played with the Woody Herman Orchestra (with whom he r…

archtopguitar.net

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Another tribute, this one from his grandson:​

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http://www.rebeatmag.com/my-grandfather-overdubbed-the-beatles-on-ed-sullivan/

Billy Bauer:

Billy Bauer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Billy Bauer | Vintage Guitar® magazine

Billy Bauer’s career was so steeped in tradition that he is often thought of as one of the first jazz guitarists. And while that’s true, his pioneering, progressive attitude and contribution to the artform endured for decades. His big-band time with Woody Herman’s First Herd was a precursor to...

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Alan Ruess:

Allan Reuss - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And Les Paul ...

Nothing required ... famous ...​