Muggsy Spanier

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At the Jazz Band Ball 00:00 Tools
Bluin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
Relaxin' at the Touro 00:00 Tools
Dippermouth Blues 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Road 00:00 Tools
At Sundown 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate 00:00 Tools
Chicago 00:00 Tools
Riverboat Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Sugar 00:00 Tools
Livery Stable Blues 00:00 Tools
Sister Kate 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You 00:00 Tools
That Da Da Strain 00:00 Tools
That's a Plenty 00:00 Tools
Really a Pain 00:00 Tools
Big Butter And Egg Man 00:00 Tools
Memphis Blues 00:00 Tools
Someday Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Four or Five Times 00:00 Tools
Tin Roof Blues 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Whistlin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
Cherry 00:00 Tools
Dippermouth Blues (Sugar Foot Stomp) 00:00 Tools
(What I Did To Be So) Black And Blue 00:00 Tools
Feather Brain 00:00 Tools
Dinah 00:00 Tools
September in the Rain 00:00 Tools
You're Driving Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
Muskrat Ramble 00:00 Tools
Caution Blues 00:00 Tools
Bullfrog Blues 00:00 Tools
Royal Garden Blues 00:00 Tools
Mandy, Make Up Your Mind 00:00 Tools
A Good Man Is Hard To Find 00:00 Tools
Eccentric 00:00 Tools
South 00:00 Tools
Hesitating Blues 00:00 Tools
Moonglow 00:00 Tools
Alabama Jubilee 00:00 Tools
Bugle Call Rag 00:00 Tools
Feather Brain Blues 00:00 Tools
Home 00:00 Tools
Jazz Me Blues 00:00 Tools
Two O'clock Jump 00:00 Tools
Alice Blue Gown 00:00 Tools
Blue Room 00:00 Tools
Careless Love 00:00 Tools
I've Found a New Baby 00:00 Tools
Angry 00:00 Tools
Dixie Flyer 00:00 Tools
Livery Stable Blues (Barnyard Blues) 00:00 Tools
The Lady's in Love With You 00:00 Tools
Eccentric (That Eccentric Rag) 00:00 Tools
Rosetta 00:00 Tools
The Wreck of the Old '97 00:00 Tools
Dipper Mouth Blues (11-10-39) 00:00 Tools
(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue 00:00 Tools
Squeeze Me 00:00 Tools
American Patrol 00:00 Tools
I’ve Found A New Baby 00:00 Tools
Riverside Blues 00:00 Tools
It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary 00:00 Tools
Sentimental Journey 00:00 Tools
There'll Be Some Changes Made 00:00 Tools
When My Dreamboat Comes Home 00:00 Tools
Black And Blue 00:00 Tools
Pee Wee Speaks 00:00 Tools
Muggsy Special 00:00 Tools
When The Saints Go Marching In 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters' Ball 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters Ball 00:00 Tools
The Big Butter And Egg Man 00:00 Tools
Little David, Play On Your Harp 00:00 Tools
China Boy 00:00 Tools
Relaxin At The Touro 00:00 Tools
It's A Long, Long Way To Tipperary (08-10-50) 00:00 Tools
I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby 00:00 Tools
Snag It 00:00 Tools
You Took Advantage of Me 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like Sister Kate 00:00 Tools
Washington And Lee Swing (1949) 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (11-10-39) 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know 00:00 Tools
Pee Wee Squawks 00:00 Tools
Weary Blues 00:00 Tools
Pat's Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
Lucky to Me 00:00 Tools
Blue Turning Grey Over You 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
Steady Roll Blues 00:00 Tools
Rose Room 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Am I Blue? 00:00 Tools
St. James Infirmary Blues 00:00 Tools
Judy 00:00 Tools
At Sundown (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Lazy Piano Man 00:00 Tools
How Come You Do Me Like You Do? 00:00 Tools
Sunday 00:00 Tools
Washington And Lee Swing 00:00 Tools
Sobbin' Blues 00:00 Tools
Clarinet Marmalade 00:00 Tools
You're Lucky To Me 00:00 Tools
Dip Your Brush In The Sunshine 00:00 Tools
How Come You Do Me Like You Do 00:00 Tools
Down to Steamboat Tennessee 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutter's Ball 00:00 Tools
Dippermouth Blues (Sugar Foot) 00:00 Tools
The Lonsome Road 00:00 Tools
Am I Blue 00:00 Tools
Sugar (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
My Wild Irish Rose 00:00 Tools
Rosie 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good! 00:00 Tools
Reiverside Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Some Day Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Red-Hot Mama 00:00 Tools
That Da-Da Strain 00:00 Tools
Basin Street Blues 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love 00:00 Tools
I'm Crazy Bout My Baby 00:00 Tools
Miff's Blues 00:00 Tools
Alice Blue Gown - from Alice (1990) 00:00 Tools
Columbia The Gem Of The Ocean 00:00 Tools
Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down 00:00 Tools
Sister Katie 00:00 Tools
Relaxing At The Touro 00:00 Tools
Someday, Sweetheart (07-07-39) 00:00 Tools
Take Me To The Land Of Hazz 00:00 Tools
Chicago (01-02-42) 00:00 Tools
That's a-Plenty 00:00 Tools
LADY BE GOOD 00:00 Tools
I'd Climb The Highest Mountain 00:00 Tools
Mama's In The Groove 00:00 Tools
Relaxin' at the Tauro 00:00 Tools
My Honey's Lovin' Arms 00:00 Tools
Little David Play On Your Harp 00:00 Tools
It's a Long Way to Tipperary 00:00 Tools
Farewell Blues 00:00 Tools
Washington And Lee Swing (1954) 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jelly Roll 00:00 Tools
Riverboat Shuffle (11-22-39) 00:00 Tools
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry 00:00 Tools
Three Little Words 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
Muskogee Blues 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo 00:00 Tools
Ugly Child 00:00 Tools
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Cherry - Remastered 00:00 Tools
When The Saints Go Marchin' In 00:00 Tools
That Da Da Strain (07-07-39) 00:00 Tools
Big Butter And Egg Man (07-07-39) 00:00 Tools
Pee Wee Squaks 00:00 Tools
Indiana 00:00 Tools
Livery Stable Blues (Barnyard Blues) (11-10-39) 00:00 Tools
Original Dixieland One Step 00:00 Tools
Beale Street Blues 00:00 Tools
At The Jazz Ball 00:00 Tools
Thats a Plenty 00:00 Tools
If I Had You 00:00 Tools
The Darktown Strutters Ball 00:00 Tools
The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else 00:00 Tools
Panama 00:00 Tools
321 BLUES 00:00 Tools
Two O'Clock Jump (06-01-42) 00:00 Tools
What Did I Do To Be So Black & Blue 00:00 Tools
Eccentric (07-07-39) 00:00 Tools
At The Jazz Band Ball (11-10-39) 00:00 Tools
Fidgety Feet 00:00 Tools
Relaxing At The Touro (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
Ja-Da 00:00 Tools
"Pops" Blues 00:00 Tools
Sugar Foot Stomp 00:00 Tools
Dallas Blues 00:00 Tools
Mandy Make Up Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Bluin the Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
My Monday Date 00:00 Tools
Hesitating Blues (01-02-42) 00:00 Tools
(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue (12-12-39) 00:00 Tools
Blues 00:00 Tools
can't we be friends 00:00 Tools
Relaxin At The Tauro 00:00 Tools
The Darktown Strutters' Ball 00:00 Tools
at the jazzband ball 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue 00:00 Tools
That Da Da Strain (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Bluin' The Blues (11-22-39) 00:00 Tools
Tin Roof Blues (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
Whistling The Blues 00:00 Tools
Big Butter And Egg Man (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Little David Play Your Harp 00:00 Tools
American Patrol (06-01-42) 00:00 Tools
When My Dream Boat Comes Home 00:00 Tools
Lazy River 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Road (12-12-39) 00:00 Tools
At Sundown (11-22-39) 00:00 Tools
Maria Elena 00:00 Tools
Riverboat Shuffle (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
That Da Da Strain (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Can't We Be Friends? (01-02-42) 00:00 Tools
Wreck of the Old '97 00:00 Tools
Relaxin’ At the Tauro 00:00 Tools
Relaxin' At The Touro (11-22-39) 00:00 Tools
Muskrat Rabmle 00:00 Tools
Mobile Blues 00:00 Tools
Cherry (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Mandy, Make Up Your Mind (12-12-39) 00:00 Tools
Big Butter and Egg Man (take 2) 00:00 Tools
Oh, Doctor Ochsner! 00:00 Tools
Cherry Redman 00:00 Tools
Angry (04-15-44) 00:00 Tools
Dinah (12-12-39) 00:00 Tools
Sobbin Blues 00:00 Tools
(I Want a) Big Butter and Egg Man 00:00 Tools
Rosetta - Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Wreck Of The Old 97 (06-01-42) 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know (06-01-42) 00:00 Tools
Relaxin' at the Touro (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Suger 00:00 Tools
The Ladys In Love With You 00:00 Tools
Alice Blue Gown (04-15-44) 00:00 Tools
September in the Rain - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Jazz Me Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Midnight In Moscow 00:00 Tools
Sweet Alice Ben Bolt 00:00 Tools
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (02-?-49) 00:00 Tools
Dippermouth Blues (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
Sister Kate - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Road (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
My Blue Heaven 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
C Blues 00:00 Tools
At The Jazz Band Hall 00:00 Tools
Someday Sweetheart (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Black & Blue 00:00 Tools
Big Butter & Egg Man 00:00 Tools
Dipper Mouth Blues A.K.A. Sugar Foot Stomp 00:00 Tools
Youre Driving Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
Little David, Play Your Harp 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue just you 00:00 Tools
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me? 00:00 Tools
The Wreck Of The Old 97 00:00 Tools
Livery Stable Blues (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
LiveryStable Blues (Barnyard Blues) 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Road (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters Ball (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
Alice Blue Gown (From 'Alice') 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Road (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Lonesome Road 00:00 Tools
Muskrat Ramble (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
River Boat Shuffle 00:00 Tools
I Want A Big Butter And Eggman 00:00 Tools
Twelfthth Street Rag 00:00 Tools
Jazz Me Blue 00:00 Tools
Baby Won't You Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
Sound Of The Wanderer 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You (vers. 1) - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Tis Autumn 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You (vers. 1) 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Someday Sweetheart (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Weary Blues (04-15-44) 00:00 Tools
Four or Five Times (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Riverboat Shuffle (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Mandy, Make Up Your Mind (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good - Original 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Night 00:00 Tools
Lucky To Me - Original 00:00 Tools
Memphis Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters Ball (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Youï¾'re Driving Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Red Jump 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters Ball #2 00:00 Tools
That's a Plenty (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
Charleston 00:00 Tools
LiveryStable Blues (Barnyard Blues) (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
I Found a New Baby 00:00 Tools
Swanee River 00:00 Tools
Alice Blue Gown [From Alice & Mystery of the Third Planet] 00:00 Tools
Hot Mittens 00:00 Tools
Home (When Shadows Fall) 00:00 Tools
Oh, Doctor Ochsner 00:00 Tools
Ja - Da 00:00 Tools
Delilah 00:00 Tools
Whistlin' the Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
At The Sundown 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters' Ball - Original 00:00 Tools
September In the Rain (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Mandy, Make Up Your Mind (take 2) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine (vers. 2) 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My 00:00 Tools
I?ve Found A New Baby 00:00 Tools
Bugle Call Rag (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue? 00:00 Tools
Hesitating Blues - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Minor Jive 00:00 Tools
Friars Point Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Deuce-A-Rini 00:00 Tools
The Darktown Strutter's Ball 00:00 Tools
Just A Feeling 00:00 Tools
Squeeze Me - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Suger Foot Stomp 00:00 Tools
Tin Roof Blues (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Oh! Lady Be Good (Version 2) 00:00 Tools
Rhapsody In Brass 00:00 Tools
Two O'Clock Jump 1943 00:00 Tools
Thatï¾'s A Plenty (vers. 1) 00:00 Tools
Too Marvelous For Words 00:00 Tools
Pee Wee Speaks (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
I'm Crazy about my Baby 00:00 Tools
American Patrol - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Pats Blues 00:00 Tools
Relaxin’ At The Touro 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Simmy Like Kate 00:00 Tools
Dippermouth Blues [12MJ] 00:00 Tools
Four or Five Times - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Two O'Clock Jump - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters Ball #1 00:00 Tools
Dixie Flyer (03-27-50) 00:00 Tools
Dippermouth Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Wreck of the Old 97 - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Egyptian-Ella 00:00 Tools
Darktown Strutters' Ball [12zQ] 00:00 Tools
That's A Plenty (10-17-44) 00:00 Tools
Sugar - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Victory Swing 00:00 Tools
Livery Stable Blues (take 1) 00:00 Tools
The Muggsy Stomp 00:00 Tools
Tin Roof Blues (Ny03.01.1945) 00:00 Tools
Jazz Me Blues (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
The Ladyï¾'s In Love With You 00:00 Tools
Relaxin´At The Touro 00:00 Tools
Egyptian Ella 00:00 Tools
Can;t We Be Friends? 00:00 Tools
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Francis Joseph Julian "Muggsy" Spanier (November 9, 1901 – February 12, 1967) was a prominent cornet player based in Chicago. He was renowned as the best trumpet/cornet player in Chicago until Bix Beiderbecke entered the scene. Muggsy led several traditional, "hot" jazz bands, most notably Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band (which did not, in fact, play ragtime but, rather, "hot jazz" that would now be called Dixieland). This band set the style for all later attempts to play traditional jazz with a swing rhythm section. Its key members, apart from Muggsy, were: George Brunies - later Brunis - (trombone and vocals), Rodney Cless (clarinet), George Zack or Joe Bushkin (piano), Ray McKinstry, Nick Ciazza or Bernie Billings (tenor sax), and Bob Casey (bass). A number of competent but unmemorable drummers worked in the band. The Ragtime Band's theme tune was "Relaxin' at the Touro", named for Touro Infirmary, the New Orleans hospital where Muggsy had been treated for a perforated ulcer early in 1938. He had been at the point of death when he was saved by one Dr. Alton Ochsner who drained the fluid and eased Muggsy's weakened breathing. "Relaxin' At The Touro" is a fairly straightforward 12-bar blues, with a neat piano introduction and coda by Joe Bushkin. The pianist recalled, many years later: "When I finally joined Muggsy in Chicago (having left Bunny Berigan's failing big band) we met to talk it over at the Three Deuces, where Art Tatum was appearing. Muggsy was now playing opposite Fats Waller at the Sherman hotel and we worked out a kind of stage show for the two bands. Muggsy was a man of great integrity. We played a blues in C and I made up a little intro. After that I was listed as the co-composer of "Relaxin' at the Touro" (quoted by Richard B. Hadlock in the notes to the Bluebird CD 'Muggsy Spanier 1939 - The "Ragtime Band" Sessions', 07863 66550). The (then) young pianist Joe Bushkin was in the Ragtime Band in 1939 and later said of Muggsy: "When he nailed something right, he stayed with it; he wouldn't fix it if it wasn't broke". In his time, Muggsy made numerous Dixieland recordings that still serve as favorites today. Apart from the famous Ragtime Band, his other most important ventures were the quartet he co-led with Sidney Bechet (the 'Big Four') in 1940 and the traditional band he co-led with pianist Earl Hines at the Club Hangover in San Francisco in the 1950s. During the early 1920s he played with The Bucktown Five in Chicago. Although Muggsy's real name was Francis Joseph Julian Spanier, he acquired the nickname "Muggsy" either because of his youthful enthusiasm for a baseball hero ("Muggsy" McGraw), or because of his obsession with King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. He was known to have shadowed and "mugged" both of them, copying their styles and incorporating them into his own music. He was allowed, on at least one occasion, to sit in with King Oliver's band (with Louis Armstrong on second cornet) at the Lincoln Gardens, Chicago, in the early 1920s. He ended his days in the 1960s, leading a traditional jazz band that included old friends like Joe Sullivan (piano), Pops Foster (bass) and Darnell Howard (clarinet). He was not a great technician or virtuoso, but he could lead a traditional ensemble with fire and guts. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.