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BUSTER BENNETT Trio Israel Crosby Hard Lick Blues / Mr B. Blows COLUMBIA 37951 For Sale

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Buster Bennett in 1944

Great Blues singer and Alto Sax Buster Bennet in one of his early Columbia sessions

Buster Bennett Trio
Buster Bennett (ts -1, as -2, voc); Willie Jones (p); Israel Crosby (b); unidentified (d).
Columbia Studios, Chicago, June 11, 1947

CCO 4792Mr. Bennett Blows (Bennett) -1
Columbia 37951

CCO 4795Hard Luck Blues (Bennett) [BB voc] -1
Columbia 37951
Thanks to the help of Victor Pearlin and Daniel Gugolz, we are now able to list this session. Bennett plays alto sax only to introduce the medley. (Buster Bennett singing \"You Are Too Beautiful\"? This seems in complete violation of the steady diet of blues that Columbia was recording. However, according to the late Vernel Fournier, who worked with Buster in 1950-1951, it more accurately reflects what he sang in the lounges than the blues do...).

Otherwise, Buster is featured on tenor. \"Rockin\' My Blues Away\" is by his one-time employer, Washboard Sam. On \"Mr. Bennett Blows\" he is seriously coppin\' the bop (he even quotes \"Ornithology\"). The spikiness and bebop fomentations are mainly due to Willie Jones. This is the only session that Willie did with Buster, but his presence gives everything except the ballad medley a decided bop flavor.

Columbia 37951, which used two sides from this session, was released in November 1947 (see Billboard, November 8, 1947, p. 33, for a listing). The Buster Benett Medley came out a few weeks later, on Columbia 38043 (listed in Billboard on December 27, 1947, p. 31). 30100 and 30106 were the numbers assigned to them in the company\'s \"race\" series; we\'ve run into no evidence of any record labels with these numbers. 30148 (after Columbia took its blues and R&B singles out of the 35000 series in May 1948 and started releasing them all with \"race\" series numbers attached) was Columbia\'s last Buster Bennett single, listed in Billboard, December 18, 1948 (p. 34). It got a review of pronounced negativity (January 1, 1949, p. 89), which trashed \"Rockin\' My Blues Away.\"

10\" 78 rpm record

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EXCELLENT minus scuffs, Plays EEXCEPTIONALLY quiet

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James Joseph \"Buster\" Bennett (March 19, 1914 – July 3, 1980) [1] was an American blues saxophonist and blues shouter.[2] His nickname was \"Leap Frog\". At various times in his career, he played the soprano saxophone, the alto, and the tenor. He was known for his gutbucket style on the saxophone. He also played the piano and the string bass professionally.

Biography
Bennett was born in Pensacola, Florida.[1] By 1930 or so, he was working in Texas, but he spent most of his active career (1938 to 1954) in Chicago. He was employed as a session musician by Lester Melrose from 1938 to 1942; he played on recordings with Big Bill Broonzy, the Yas Yas Girl, Monkey Joe, and Washboard Sam.[3] Concomitantly he played on sessions with Jimmie Gordon under the direction of Sammy Price.[2]

In 1944, the Buster Bennett Trio featured Arrington Thornton on piano and Duke Groner on bass.[2] Other lineups led by Bennett included Wild Bill Davis, Israel Crosby, and Pee Wee Jackson.[4]

In 1945, Bennett signed a three-year recording contract with Columbia Records; he was marketed as a Louis Jordan sound-alike. In early 1946, while under contract to Columbia, Bennett appeared, under the name of his trumpet player, Charles Gray, on a recording for the short-lived Chicago label Rhumboogie.[5] He also made an unannounced appearance on a Red Saunders session for Sultan Records in 1946 and on a \"tenor battle\" session with Tom Archia[2] for Aristocrat Records in 1947.

At the height of his popularity, in the late 1940s, he was known for his ability to draw customers into a South Side club—and for his cantankerous personality. On one occasion, he and Preston Jackson got into a fistfight at the Musicians Union hall, over a $2 debt.[2]

Bennett recorded his last session for Columbia in December 1947. By 1956 he was out of music, because of the loss of recording opportunities and his failing health. He retired to Texas, where he lived out the remainder of his life. He died in Houston in 1980, at the age of 66.[2]

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BUSTER BENNETT Trio Israel Crosby Hard Lick Blues / Mr B. Blows COLUMBIA 37951 For Sale

BUSTER BENNETT Trio Israel Crosby Hard Lick Blues / Mr B. Blows COLUMBIA 37951: $19.99

BUSTER BENNETT Trio Israel Crosby Hard Lick Blues / Mr B. Blows COLUMBIA 37951:
$19.99