Davidson, Jimmy 'Trump' - + Horn = Dixie

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Maple Leaf Rag	03:24
	2	Ace in the Hole	03:09
	3	Ballin' the Jack	03:37
	4	Fidgety Feet	04:40
	5	Wise Guys	03:09
	6	Storyville Blues	04:23

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	My Best Girl	03:31
	2	Georgia Camp Meeting	03:03
	3	When My Sugar Walks Down the Street	04:22
	4	Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out	03:17
	5	South	02:44
	6	Hoghead Shout	04:05

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Information/Write-up

Jimmy (James Douglas) Davidson, "Trump" after ca 1936. Cornetist, singer, arranger, b Sudbury, Ont, 26 Nov 1908, d there 2 May 1978. A pioneer and promoter of jazz in Canada, he played trumpet at age 12 with the Canadian Legion Band in Sudbury and formed the Melody Five, one of the earliest jazz-styled groups in Canada (1925). Moving to Toronto, he worked 1929-36 with Luigi Romanelli (first as a singer, then as a cornet soloist and arranger, and occasionally as a baritone saxophonist) and briefly in 1935 with Rex Battle's dance band.

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Murray Ginsberg: trombone
Harvey Silver: piano
Jack Wachter: clarinet
Sam Levine (father of Mike Levine of Triumph): double-bass
Reef McGarvey: drums

Produced and engineered by Art Snider
Recorded at Newberry Sound Studio, Toronto, Ontario

Photo cover by Robert C. Ragsdale, assisted by Margaret Epp

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