INFO: two great hot 1929 sides off of Victor RACE SERIES masters BEtter pressings than the 1929 issue using the best masters !- The Oliver band is really LUIS RUSSELL's orchestra who seems to have been used by everyone from Louis Armstrong to Victoria Spivey ! .King Oliver dir: Louis Metcalf, c / J. C. Higginbotham, tb / Charlie Holmes,cl, ss, as / Teddy Hill, ts / Luis Russell, p / Will Johnson, bj, g / "Bass" Moore, bb / Paul Barbarin, d / Walter Pichon,v. Liederkranz Hall, New York, January 16, 1929. THE FESS BAND IS:
Fess Williams, cl, dir. Fats Robinson, t, o / Rueben Reeves, t / Eddie Atkins,
William Franklin, tb / Ralph Brown, as, o / Norval Morton, ts, f / Clarence Lee, Bobby Wall, Joe McCutchin, vn /p / Lawrence W. Dixon, bj / Sudie Reynaud, sb / Jasper Taylor, d.Lockwood Lewis, as, / Andy Pendleton, bj Emanuel Casamore, bb, replaces Walker. New York, April 17, 1929.