Merritt Brunies Friar's Inn Orch Up Jumped The Devil Okeh 40618 Jazz 78 V+E-
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Description
ARTIST: Merritt Brunies and His Friar's Inn Orchestra / Tom Brown and His Merry Minstrel Orchestra
LABEL: Okeh 40618
TITLES: Up Jumped The Devil / Good Night
CONDITION: V+ (largely E-), tight crack to the label barely affects play
DESCRIPTION: Recorded in Chicago in March 1926, first time on eBay. Great hot Chicago band who played three seasons at the Friars Inn, longer than any band before or after them. The Brunies brothers composed Angry, Panama Blues, Tell Me Who, and this tune, Up Jumped The Devil.
Merritt Brunies, c, dir: Harry Brunies, tb / Volly de Faut, William Creager, cl, as / Sumner Logan, ts, bar / Dudley Mecum or Maurice Freedman, p / Clarence Piper, bj / Norman van Hook, bb / Bill Paley, d.
Tom Brown (of Six Brown Brothers fame) side also an interesting recording. He recorded infrequently after his early 20s saxophone sextet days but recorded a couple sides in the Okeh studio in April 1926, including this Paul Small composition.
78 GRADING: We use the universally recognized VJM (Vintage Jazz Mart) 78 rpm system in grading our 78s with some streamlining as noted, eliminating some of the hair splitting on records graded V- and below (G+, G, G-, F).
E+
Highest grade used. A record that might have minor handling marks but has no visible signs of wear. N, N- and E+ records will all be graded as E+.
E
Record has slight signs of handling and use but groove wear should be barely detectable and grooves should still be glossy and black.
E-
Light groove wear with grey rubbing and light circular gray grooves starting to appear, but record should still retain glossy black grooves for almost all of the surface.
V+
Grey wear, handling and groove wear more apparent, but much of the groove area will still have black.
V
Record is approaching an overall grey surface with uniform wear, but will still play well even though the level of surface noise and distortion could be distracting.
V-
Record has wear throughout, and was subject to continual playing to wring more sound out of it, so even the grey is in a more advanced state of deterioration with groove walls disappearing.
P
This grade generally indicates poor condition on a good title.
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