If you think some of these titles are familiar – then think again. These sound like never before. Remastered by Nick Dellow from The Mark Berresford collection are arguably 25 of the greatest and hottest jazz recordings made in the ‘Mound City’  between 1924 and 1932. Compiled and produced by Paul Swinton with notes by Christopher Hillman.

“The best Frog yet – and that’s saying something!"

CHAS. CREATH JAZZ- O - MANIACS

1. Pleasure Mad
2. Market Street Blues
3. I Woke Up Cold In Hand
4. King Porter Stomp
5. Every Man That Wears Bell-Bottom Britches Ain’t No Monkey
6. My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)
7. Market Street Stomp
8. Won’t Don’t Blues
9. Way Down In Lover’s Lane
10. Grandpa’s Spell

SEARCY TRIO

11. Kansas Avenue Blues
12. East St. Louis Stomp

POWELL’S JAZZ MONARCHS

13. Chauffeur’s Shuffle
14. Laughing Blues

DEWEY JACKSON’S PEACOCK ORCHESTRA

15. She’s Crying For Me
16. Capitol Blues
17. Go ‘Won To Town
18. What Do You Want Poor Me To Do?

TRIMP’S AMBASSADOR BELL HOPS ORCHESTRA

19. What A Man

JESSIE STONE AND HIS BLUE SERENADERS

20. Starvation Blues
21. Boot To Boot

CHAS. CREATH JAZZ - O - MANIACS

22. Butter-Finger Blues
23. Crazy Quilt

EDDIE JOHNSON’S CRACKERJACKS

24. The Duck’s Yas Yas Yas
25. Good Old Bosom Bread

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