Bud Freeman & His Famous Chicagoans

This band was sort of fiction perpetrated by Columbia Files and producer John Hammond for any 1940 album — yes, an “album” comprising four LP-sized shellac discs inside a book that appeared as if a photo-album — called Comes Jazz. The group was constructed out of the Eddie Condon-organized clothing based in NY that experienced billed themselves on-stage as the “Summa Cum Laude Orchestra.” For the July 24, 1940 gig that yielded the recording,Bud Freeman was the frontman on tenor sax — the others were Maximum Kaminsky (cornet), Jack port Teagarden (trombone, vocals) (subbing for Brad Gowans from your “Summa Cum Laude Orchestra”), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), Dave Bowman (piano), Eddie Condon (acoustic guitar), Morty Stuhlmaker (bass), and Dave Difficult (drums). The fiction, as related by Dick Sudhalter, was that non-e of these men (not Freeman) had very much — if any — link with Chicago-style jazz in virtually any idiom. The music was sufficient, however, to obtain reissued many times, over the Columbia in 1950 under its primary title and in addition on Epic.