Artist: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan
Author: Bob Cole/J. Rosemond Johnson/James Weldon Johnson
Label: Edison Gold/Victor
Year: 1902
Covers:
Orquesta de Pablo Valenzuela [as La Patti Negra; Cuban danzón; famous opera diva Adelina Patti had an Afro-American counterpart in Sister Retta Jones, nicknamed The Black Patti, in Spanish: La Patti Negra; oldest recording of Afro-American dance music, reissued on Folkways cd The Cuban Danzón - Before There Was Jazz (see also: La Machicha)]
Judy Garland [as Under The Bamboo Tree]
Kid Ory [idem]
Ken Colyer's Jazzmen [as Underneath The Bamboo Tree]
Ken Colyer's band is where Chris Barber, Lonnie Donegan and Alexis Korner debuted. But while Ken sticked to trad jazz, the others made name in different directions.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)