Bessie Smith, Any Woman’s Blues, 1970 on Columbia

This is was the second in a series of five 2xLP releases on Columbia in 1970-1972 that covered Smith’s recordings for the label.

These recordings were made between September 1923 and March 1930, all recorded in New York. Piano by Fletcher Henderson, Clarence Williams, Irving Johns, James Price Johnson, and Jimmy Jones. Other musicians include Don Redman (clarinet), Eddie Lang (guitar), Garvin Bushnell (alto sax, clarinet, soprano sax), Ed Allen (cornet), Arville Harris (tenor sax), Cyrus St. Clair (tuba), Charlie Green (trombone), and Louis Bacon (trumpet).

Technical restoration by Larry Hiller and liner notes by Chris Albertson (author of Bessie).

Great set of early Bessie Smith recordings in mono.

My copy, via Academy Records in NYC, is a 1970 pressing

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About Eddie Lang, guitarist

#EddieLang

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/hes-the-forgotten-father-of-guitar-solos-why-did-rolling-stones-250-greatest-guitarists-list-exclude-this-jazz-pioneer-173847

Jazz guitar virtuoso Eddie Lang accompanies vocalist Ruth Etting in her 1932 short "A Regular Trouper."

https://www.20sjazz.com/videos/ruth-etting-1/without-that-man.html

Eddie Lang, as usual, doesn't speak. His voice was so gravelly, Bing Crosby encouraged him to have a tonsillectomy, but sadly complications set in and Eddie died on the operating table.

#eddielang #jazzguitarists