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Personnel includes: Frankie Trumbauer (C-melody saxophone); Bing Crosby (vocals); Bix Beiderbecke (cornet); Eddie Lang (guitar); Joe Venuti (violin); Wingy Malone (clarinet); Jimmy Dorsey (alto saxophone, clarinet); Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone). Recorded in New York, New York in 1927 & 1928. Includes liner notes by Anatol Schenker. Personnel: Frankie Trumbauer (vocals, C-melody saxophone); John Ryan , Irving Kaufman, Seger Ellis, Bing Crosby (vocals); Paul Mertz (alto, piano); Bill Challis (alto); Eddie Lang (guitar, banjo); Carl Kress (guitar); Joe Venuti, Matty Malneck (violin); Les Reis (viola); Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet, alto saxophone); Pee Wee Russell (clarinet); Doc Ryker, Charles Strickfaden, Bobby Davis (alto saxophone); Min Leibrook, Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone); Charlie Margulis (trumpet); Bix Beiderbecke (cornet, piano); Wingy Manone (cornet); Bill Rank (trombone); Tommy Satterfield (piano, celesta); Itzy Riskin, Frank Signorelli (piano); Harold McDonald, Chauncey Morehouse (drums). Liner Note Author: Anatol Schenker. Recording information: New York, NY (02/04/1927-01/20/1928). Director: Frankie Trumbauer. Unknown Contributor Role: Frankie Trumbauer. C-melody saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer is best remembered for the recordings he made in the late '20s with cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. Trumbauer's other lasting accomplishment was to inadvertently inspire Lester Young to develop an unusually subtle manner of handling the tenor saxophone. While most of this material may be found on various Beiderbecke-oriented compilations (the JSP box Bix & Tram is thriftily priced), there's nothing quite like having a Classics discography to organize one's cognition while following the trail of old records in precise chronological sequence. Informational details such as record labels, arranger credits, and recording dates are neatly presented for maximum clarity and comprehension. This first volume in the complete works of Frankie Trumbauer consists entirely of recordings made for the Okeh label between February 4, 1927, and January 20, 1928. The material ranges from archetypal masterpieces ("Singin' the Blues," "Ostrich Walk," "I'm Coming, Virginia," and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find") to marvelously stodgy milestones of timeworn pop music. "Sugar" -- not Maceo Pinkard's tune but a long-gone opus credited to Yellen & Ager -- is sung by a positively silly trio of comedians whereas "Just an Hour of Love" and "I'm Wonderin' Who" feature vaudeville-trained vocalist Irving Kaufman. Instrumentally speaking, there's never a dull moment. Adrian Rollini appears and disappears like a bass sax-toting will o' the wisp; Joe Venuti brandishes a fiddle and Eddie Lang plays both banjo and guitar, even appearing in a trio with Bix and Tram on "For No Reason at All in C" and Fats Waller's "Wringin' and Twistin'." Pee Wee Russell and Jimmy Dorsey each show up long enough to contribute their two bits, someone's sax whinnies like a horse at the end of "There'll Come a Time,
