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DEEP SEA BLUES
 
mx  25509-1
 
OCTOBER  31,  1939     Tuesday  AM LIEDERKRANZ HALL
  58th Street & Lexington Avenue,  NYC
  ( VOCALION Records )
 

 
  8-Bar BLUES Key of   F Quarter Note =   98 Time:   3:17
 
 
  8-Bar Intro  +  9  CHORUSES:
 
      4  bars  –  ensemble [Intro]  
    4  bars  –  CC [Intro] (w/ rhythm sec)
 
  16  bars  –  vocal over CC obbl [Verse] (w/ rhythm sec)
 
    16  bars  –  vocal [Verse] (w/ ens)
 
    16  bars  –  vocal [Chorus] (w/ ens)
 
      8  bars  –  piano [Cadenza] (w/ rhythm sec)
 
    16  bars  –  vocal [Chorus] (w/ ens)
 
 

 
Personnel:
 
  Ida Cox and her All-Star Band
  CHARLIE CHRISTIAN Guitar
  EDMOND HALL clarinet
  HOT LIPS PAGE trumpet
  J.C. HIGGINBOTHAM trombone
  JAMES P. JOHNSON piano
  ARTIE BERNSTEIN bass
  LIONEL HAMPTON drums
  IDA COX vocal
 
 

Composed by: Jesse Crump - Ida Cox
 
©   VALDÉS   5/20/20
 

 

Transcription

Deep Sea Blues   –   31 October 1939   –   mx 25509-1   (master take)

Intro / Obbligati

 



C
&A:

Deep Sea Blues was the first song to lead off two Vocalion recording sessions held on Halloween Day featuring blues singer Ida Cox.  This morning session was held at Liederkranz Hall in New York City.  The two takes of this blues are arranged with Charlie Christian leading on four bars of the intro and then providing single-string background behind the first sixteen bars of the vocal.  And he makes a splendid contribution on both; but that’s about the most he waxes on any one song on the day.  He is prominent on some of the other songs (all are slow blues) but not quite as much as on this one.

mx 25509-2  (alternate take)
Media 7 selected this take as the sole piece to represent the entire Vocalion endeavor of the day on their excellent Masters of Jazz nine-volume Charlie Christian compact disc series.  Sadly, the track was mastered at a speed that raised the key an exact half-step to F (the Affinity release had suffered the same mishap).

mx 25509-1  (master take)
The Masters of Jazz and Affinity releases of this take are on key.

 


 
Issued Recordings:
 
  [ 78 ] Vocalion 05336 (b/w Death Letter Blues) [ 25509 ]
 
  [ EP ] Fontana TFE 17136 (side B, track 2) [ — ]
 
  [ LP ] Queen-Disc Q-048 (side A, track 1) [ 25509-1 ]
 
  [ CD ] Affinity / Charly AFS 1015 (track 1) [ 25509-1 ]
  Definitive DRCD11176 (disc 1, track 11) [ -1 ]
  Document DOCD-5651 (track 1) [ take 1 ]
 



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