This interesting album features a variety of veteran jazzmen best-known for their recordings in the 1920s. Clarinetist
Jimmie Noone
, who was quite obscure by 1941, is in good form with a quartet during a radio broadcast, playing mostly swing standards. Pianist
Richard M. Jones
leads an all-star group on four blues-oriented studio recordings: trumpeter
Bob Shoffner
, trombonist
Preston Jackson
, clarinetist
Darnell Howard
, bassist
John Lindsay
and drummer
Baby Dodds
. This LP is quite brief in time (under a half hour) and is primarily for collectors of the era. ~ Scott Yanow