The Cotton Pickers

Natural cotton Pickers was the universal music group name that Brunswick Information applied to its little jazz music group recordings manufactured in 1922-1923, 1924-1925, and again in 1929. We were holding intended to contend with well-known dance records released on other brands by groups such as for example Ladd’s Dark Aces, Bailey’s Lucky Seven, as well as the Memphis Five. The initial incarnation of Natural cotton Pickers was led by clarinetist Bennie Krueger and included trumpeter Phil Napoleon, trombonist Miff Mole, and pianist Frank Signorelli, most of who also made an appearance in the Memphis Five. With time practically the complete personel from the Memphis Five was brought in to the rates of Natural cotton Pickers, which is the method the music group stood until Sept of 1923. It isn’t known why the group halted documenting for Brunswick at this time, although one might speculate Columbia (to whom the Memphis Five was contracted specifically) got smart regarding the identification of Natural cotton Pickers and informed Phil Napoleon and organization to knock it off. Brunswick made a decision to revive the name in Feb 1924 and continuing to utilize it until past due 1925 like a pseudonym for a little group drawn from your rates of the brand new York-based Ray Miller Orchestra. At this time the Miller music group included both Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, saxophonist Frank Trumbauer, and coincidentally Miff Mole, who demonstrated the just holdover from the sooner incarnation of Natural cotton Pickers. On these later on Natural cotton Pickers sides it really is Trumbauer and Mole who observe a lot of the actions, the second option spectacularly etc “Down and Out Blues.” The ultimate 1929 batch of Natural cotton Pickers records, produced apparently as an afterthought, had been also coordinated by Ray Miller. By that point the warm soloists of 1925 experienced shifted to other activities, however the last classes features vocal choruses by Libby Holman and Dick Robertson. As the name “Natural cotton Pickers” might have been meant as only a common designation for warm music from Brunswick, as you can plainly see from the titles listed above, Natural cotton Pickers were not “common.”