{"id":1815,"date":"2015-06-28T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2015-06-28T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:14:16","slug":"stuff-smith-his-onyx-club-boys-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"Stuff Smith & His Onyx Club Boys – 1937"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Decca1287A\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Where Is The Sun”
\nStuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys; Stuff Smith, vocal
\nMay 4, 1937\u00a0 ( Decca 1287 A mx 62173)
\nWhere Is The Sun<\/a><\/p>\n

“Upstairs”
\nStuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys
\nMay 4, 1937 (Decca 1287 B mx 62174)
\nUpstairs<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here are a couple of recordings by jazz violinist Stuff Smith<\/a> along with his sextette which was a regular fixture at New York’s Onyx Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Where Is The Sun” is from The Cotton Club Parade of 1937<\/a><\/em> where it was performed by Ethel Waters<\/a>.\u00a0 The Cotton Club Parade<\/em> was the name of the elaborate all-black cast musical revues that\u00a0 The Cotton Club<\/a> staged each year.<\/p>\n

“Upstairs” is one of Stuff Smith’s own compositions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Where Is The Sun” Stuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys; Stuff Smith, vocal May 4, 1937\u00a0 ( Decca 1287 A mx 62173) Where Is The Sun “Upstairs” Stuff Smith And His Onyx Club Boys May 4, 1937 (Decca 1287 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,9,16,22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6lko4-th","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}