Henry Allen Jr. Orch on Victor 23006 78 RPM

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MEGA RARE 1930 JAZZ 78 RPM

HENRY "RED" ALLEN JR. AND HIS ORCHESTRA

ROAMIN' B/W PATROL WAGON BLUES

VICTOR SCROLL 23006

VG++ (Nice clean copy, plays virtually noise free, does have very light scuffing.....a true gem this one!)

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NEW: APPARENTLY UNPLAYED/NO EVIDENCE OF WEAR

EXCELLENT: MINIMAL SURFACE NOISE.SLIGHT WEAR.NICE LUSTRE/SHINE TO PLAYING SURFACE

VERY GOOD:SOME LOSS OF LUSTRE,LIGHT GRAYNESS TO GROOVES.MORE NOTICEABLE SURFACE AND EXTRANEOUS NOISE

GOOD:CONSIDERABLE WEAR.OBVIOUS LOSS OF LUSTRE.NUMEROUS SURFACE MARKS.SURFACE NOISE BEGINS TO OVERWHELM THE MUSIC  WILL STILL PLAY THROUGH WITHOUT SKIPPING/STICKING

FAIR  /  POOR:LOWEST GRADES. GOUGES,DIGS -- DAMAGE WHICH CAUSES SKIPS,JUMPS,STICKING-- NOISE ALMOST COMPLETELY DROWNS OUT RECORDING    UNSALEABLE EXCEPT FOR THE RAREST OF RECORDINGS    "FRISBEE" STATUS      

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Henry James "Red" Allen (January 7, 1906; see talkpage – April 17, 1967) was a jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong.

Life

Henry James "Red" Allen was born in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of bandleader Henry Allen. He took early trumpet lessons from Peter Bocage and Manuel Manetta.

Allen was playing professionally by 1924, with the Excelsior Brass Band and the jazz dance bands of Sam Morgan, George Lewis and John Casimir. After playing on riverboats on the Mississippi River, he went to New York City in 1927 to join King Oliver's band. Around this time he made recordings on the side in the band of Clarence Williams. After returning briefly to New Orleans where he worked with the bands of Fate Marable and Fats Pichon, he was offered a recording contract with Victor Records and returned to New York, where he also joined the Luis Russell band, which was fronted by Louis Armstrong in the late 1930s.

From 1929 on, Allen joined Luis Russell's Orchestra where he was a featured soloist until he joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra in 1934. He also made a series of recordings in late 1931 with Don Redman, and played with Lucky Millinder's Mills Blue Rhythm Band from 1934 to 1937, when he returned to Luis Russell for three more years at a time when this orchestra was often fronted by Louis Armstrong.

Allen continued making many recordings under his own name, as well as recording with Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton as well as accompanying vocalists including Victoria Spivey and Billie Holiday. After a short stint with Benny Goodman, Allen started leading his own band at The Famous Door in Manhattan. He then toured with his band around the USA into the late 1950s.

 Death

Allen then returned to working under his own name making more tours of the USA and Europe until his death on April 17, 1967 in New York City.

 Style and influence

Red Allen's trumpet style has been said by some critics to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong and then go beyond Armstrong. Allen's recordings received much favorable attention. His versatility is shown by his winning of Down Beat awards in both the traditional jazz and the modern jazz categories. In 1959 Allen made his first tour of Europe when he joined Kid Ory's band.

Red Allen made a celebrated appearance on the legendary "Sound Of Jazz" television show on which he nearly stole the show; the program, filmed "live" in December 1957 is still considered the greatest jazz television program ever recorded. Only Billie Holiday's singing matched his performance on that historic program