Artist: Eubie Blake
Author: Jesse Pickett
Label: AEI
Year: 1920
Slow drag piano-roll in the 'Spanish tinge' like Jelly Roll Morton used to say. Out of fashion by then. Eubie learned it from Pickett at the Chicago World Fair in 1894.
Covers:
Jelly Roll Morton [same mood in The Crave; Alan Lomax recording]
James P. Johnson [as The Dream, credited to John Wilson (Jack The Bear) who played it a lot; in 1938 as The Bull Biker's Dream for Alan Lomax]
Ry Cooder [idem on Jazz; with Earl Hines on piano; credited to Jack The Bear and Jess (sic) Pickett]
Marian McPartland [with Eubie Blake]
Floyd Domino [as The Dream in film The Newton Boys]
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán [habañera arrangement as Bolero Sonámbulo]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)