Volume 140: The Magic Horn

Here’s another album in my dad’s collection that featured a group of jazz musicians recording an album before playing the same music on live TV days later. This time, the live TV show was a drama about a jazz trumpet player in the 1920s. Several of the musicians you’ll hear had speaking parts in the show as well as playing some great music.

So get ready to hear Ruby Braff as Spencer Lee playing mostly jazz standards in Volume 140: The Magic Horn.

Credits and copyrights

George Wein's Dixie-Victors Featuring Ruby Braff – The Magic Horn
Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1332
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style: Dixieland

We will hear 6 of the 9 tunes on this record.

Banjo – Danny Barker
Baritone Saxophone – Ernie Caceres
Bass – Milt Hinton
Clarinet – Bill Stegmeyer, Peanuts Hucko
Drums – Buzzy Drootin
Piano, Creative Director [Musical Director] – George Wein
Trombone – Vic Dickenson
Trumpet – Jimmy McPartland, Ruby Braff

Struttin' With Some Barbecue
Written By – Louis Armstrong

The Magic Horn
Written By – Ben Ross

Loveless Love
Written By – W. C. Handy

A Monday Date
Written By – Carl Hines, Sid Robinc

On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Written By – Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields

Dippermouth Blues
Written By – Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.