Side 1

Side 2

1. Snatchin' Back
2. No More Black Nights
3. Stardust
4. You Got A Time
5. That' ll Get It
6. Love Is So Low Down
7. Texas Hop
8. The Ice Man

1. Cat Music
2. Every Night, Every Day
3. An Old Cow Hand From A Blues Band
4. Shrimp and Gumbo
5. Ivy League
6. Love No More
7. Somebody New
8. Honky Tonk Trumpet

Details:
"Gumbo" - the musical miscellany in New Orleans, the "birth city" of jazz, is as diverse and as "hot" as is this Creole stew. Various cultures met in the "Crescent City" creating a unique symbiosis with one another. It's no wonder that the 1920 born, former Duke Ellington trumpet player, Dave Bartholomew moved to this city after WW II and established his own Band.
After "Jump Children" (1984), and "The Monkey" (1985), "Shrimp and Gumbo" was the third album in 1986 with reissues and partially unpublished material from Dave Bartholomew's heyday, were released by Lew Chudd's label Imperial Records. The album with recordings from 1949 to 1962 proved that Bartholomew: discoverer, mentor and a co-author of nearly all of Fats Domino's hits (at the piano on Cat Music), and talent scout for the Imperial label, has endured as a singer and musician of remarkable quality. Stylistically "Shrimp and Gumbo" offers a cross-section of myriad takes on R&B: The range goes from Slow Blues (Love Is So Low Down) through typical Jump Blues (That'll Get It) up to Caribbean rhythms (Shrimp and Gumbo). Every Night, Every Day, Ivy League or at Old Cow Hand From A Blues Band - Bartholomew's self-willed interpretation of the Johnny Mercer title Old Cow Hand (From The Rio Grande), which Bing Crosby had already recorded in 1936, were characteristic of that New Orleans style of the 50's, with Fats Domino's conquest of the white Rock and Roll public. The instrumental version of Stardust, a popular evergreen from the 20's, which Louis Armstrong also included in his repertoire, demonstrates Bartholomew's prowess as a trumpet soloist. Honky Tonk Trumpet can be perceived as an excursion into the pop music of the early 60's and so reached the same status as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass.

Dave Bartholomew has remained an active musician and a producer up to the present. In addition to the many years he worked with Fats Domino, he was "house arranger and bandleader" for Imperial Records, until the mid 60's, predominantly responsible for the success' of further R&B artists such as Smiley Lewis, Lloyd Price and Shirley & Lee. Bartholomew's feel for talents and musical trends led to his becoming the "Senior Chief" of New Orleans R&B, although he himself was never really in the floodlights. More, over the meaning and effect of Dave Bartholomew, can be read in the article "Spot on... Fats Domino ".

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Recording details:

Snatchin' Back
(Bayou 005)

No More Black Nights
(Imperial 5249)

Stardust
(Previously Unreleased)
You Got A Time*
(Imperial 5255)
That' ll Get It*
(Previously Unreleased)
Love Is So Low Down*
(Imperial 5255)
Texas Hop
(Imperial 5273)

The Ice Man
(Previously Unreleased)

Cat Music
(Imperial 5308)

Every Night, Every Day
(Imperial 5350)
An Old Cow Hand From A Blues Band
(Imperial 5373)

Shrimp And Gumbo
(Imperial 5373)

Ivy League
(Previously Unreleased)
Love No More
(Previously Unreleased)

Somebody New
(Imperial 5702)

Honky Tonk Trumpet
(Imperial 5835)