Jimmy Mazzy's Recordings

1. Jimmy Mazzy Sings - OZ 1001 (recorded in 1978, Jimmy's first recording - tape only)

   * Get Up Off That Jazzaphone     * Don't You Leave Me Here
   * Tishomingo Blues     * Glad Rag Doll
   * Somebody Else Is Taking My Place     * Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town
   * After You've Gone     * Sweet Emmalina
   * Jazzbo Jenkins     * Someday Sweetheart
   * Breeze     * South
   * Land of Beginning Again     * You've Changed
   * If You Knew (How I Love You)

2. Jimmy Mazzy's Great Depression Song Book - 1980 OZ 1002 - Carol Mueller, piano; Kia Jeul, bass.

   * Brother Can You Spare A Dime     * WPA Blues
   * Shaking the Blues Away     * I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
   * I Believe In Miracles     * Mr. Wu (Chinese Laundry Blues)
   * Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You     * You Brought A New Kind Of Love to Me
   * Exactly Like You     * Do Something
   * Mr. Jelly Lord     * Lonesome Me

3. Live At UNH (University of New Hampshire) - 1982 (90 minutes) - Stan McDonald (clarinet), Scott Philbrick (cornet), Bill Whitcraft (piano), Hank Hankinson (bass), Carol Moeller (piano).

   * Let's Misbehave     * Do Something
   * Sweet Substitute     * A Hundred Years From Today
   * Louisiana (Edwards)     * Changes
   * Jazzin' Babies' Blues     * How Could I Be Blue?
   * Yama Yama Man     * Roamin'
   * When Jennie Does Her Lowdown Dance     * Blue Monday On Sugar Hill
   * Yearning and Blue     * Dark Eyes
   * San     * Heebie Jeebies
   * In My Solitude     * Mamie's Blues

4. Jimmy Mazzy and Four Pianos- OZ 1003 - 1984 - Carol Moeller (piano), Richard Giordano (piano), Don Frothingham (piano), Jack Phelan (piano) and Gray Sargent (guitar), John Battis (clarinet), Steve Pratt (bass).

   * Trouble In Mind      * Wall Street Rag
   * Precious Lord      * I'm Just Wild About Harry
   * Shreveport Stomp     * Titanic Man Blues
   * A Friend with Pleasure & My Dreams     * Mary
   * Shenendoah     * Oh Susannah, Dust Off That Old Pianna
   * Mood Indigo

5. Devil Mountain Jazz Band with Jimmy Mazzy - YBJ502 - 1995, with Ken Keeler's Devil Mountain Jazz Band (with Mazzy) (CD and Tape)

   * South Rampart Street Parade      * Jazz Lips
   * Put 'Em Down Blues      * I'm Not Rough
   * That's When I'll Come Back To You      * Tishomingo Blues
   * Rockin' in Rhythm      * Flat Foot
   * I'm A Little Blackbird      * Can't We Be Friends
   * I'm Gonna Gitcha      * I Need Lovin'
   * The Pearls      * Panama
   * When I Grow Too Old To Dream

6. Jimmy Mazzy and The Temple of Doom - recorded live at the Santa Rosa Traditional Jazz Festival, August 1995. Personnel - Ken Smith (cornet), Walter Sereth (reeds), Golden Eagle Jazz Band; Bob Pilsbury (piano), New Black Eagle Jazz Band; Ken Keeler (banjo & guitar), Devil Mountain Jazz Band; Marty Eggers (bass) Black Diamond Blue Five; Steve Joseph (drums - washboard) everyband; Carrie Mazzy (vocals)

   * Sweet Jennie Lee      * Oh, You Devil Man
   * When They Swing That Music      * There's A Cabin In The Pines
   * Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night (duet)  * You're The One I Care For (duet)
   * Blue Bungalow      * Lina Blues
   * Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares (v. CM)      * Nobody But My Baby (v. CM)
   * Alabama Stomp      * Goodnight Angeline
   * Halfway to Heaven

7. Private Stock - recorded live at Hot Steamed Jazz Festival, Essex, CT - June 1996. Jim and Carrie's Jazz Babies - Jeff Hughes (cornet); Al Bernard (tuba); Jim Mazzy (banjo and vocals); Carrie Mazzy (vocals)

   * When I Take My Vacation In Harlem      * Stavin' Change
   * Say The Word      * Stormy Monday Blues
   * I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling (v. CM)      * How Could I Be Blue?
   * My Sunday Girl      * Brotherly Love (instrumental)
   * Lord, You Made The Night Too Long      * When A Woman Loves A Man (v. CM)
   * You're Such A Comfort To Me (duet)      * I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
   * Too Buzy (v. CM, scat - JM)      * When The Blue of The Night
   * Oh, Peter (You're so Nice)

    

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Recordings available from Stomp-Off Records, PO Box 342, York, PA 17405 or Tower Records (*available from us)

1. Together At Last - w/Bob Connor's New Yankee Rhythm Kings - Stomp Off #1067

   * Santa Claus Blues      * I Need Lovin'
   * Trouble In Mind      * Moanin'
   * Remarkable Girl      * Changes
   * Early In The Morning      * Kiss Me Sweet
   * Gatemouth      * Steamboat Stomp

    

2. *Shake It Down w/Eli Newberger (tuba) (New Black Eagle Jazz Band) - Stomp Off #1109 (1985) banjo, vocals and tuba - considered a tour-de-force (tape and vinyl)

   * Shake It Down      * Lina Blues
   * Jelly Bean Blues      * Breeze
   * Tia Juana Man      * The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
   * Prelude in C Sharp Minor      * When You Wish Upon A Star
   * I Ain't Got Nobody      * Chicago Breakdown
   * Goodnight, Angeline      * Dapper Dan
    

   *2A Shake It Down (the CD) - Stomp Off #CD1109 (1985 and 1996) additions to the above

   * Blue Evening      * Dip Your Brush In The Sunshine
   * Put 'Em Down Blues      * Strut Miss Lizzie
   * Do De O Do      * At The Christmas Ball
   * Moan, You Moaners      * S'posin'

    

3. Shake That Thing, Magnolia 5 with Jimmy Mazzy - Stomp Off #1137 (vinyl only), (1985) Robbie Schlosser (bass); Bill Carter, Walter Sereth (clarinets); Jim Klippert (trombone)

   * King Joe      * Black Girl (In The Pines)
   * Breeze      * Shake That Thing
   * The Royal Telephone      * Corrine Corrina 
   * Blue Bungalow      * We're Gonna Have Smooth Sailing
   * Moonlight      * Jelly Bean Blues
   * Creole Love Call      * Shiek of Araby

    

4. *Jimmy Mazzy & Friends - That's All There Is - 1989, Stomp Off #1219 (recorded live at UNH) Jeff Hughes (cornet), Billy Novick (clarinet), Eli Newberger (tuba), Robin Verdier (piano) (tape and vinyl).

   * I Wish That I Were Twins      * There's A Cabin In The Pines
   * Steal Away      * Poor Papa
   * Miss Otis Regrets      * Malinda's Wedding Day
   * Why?      * Chicago Breakdown
   * Swing Is The Thing      * That's All There Is (There Ain't No More)

    

5. *Ain't Cha Glad w/Paramount Jazz Band of Boston - Stomp Off #1205 (1988) (CD and Tape), Jeff Hughes (cornet); Gary Rodberg, Steve Wright (reeds); Jimmy Mazzy (banjo, vocals); Robin Verdier (piano); Chuck Stewart (tuba); Ray Smith (drums)

   * Shout "Em, Aunt Tillie      * Never Again
   * Who Wouldn't Love You?      * Yearning and Blue
   * Doin. The New Lowdown      * I'll Dance At Your Wedding
   * Morocco Blues      * Every Evening
   * Lost      * Come On and Stomp, Stomp, Stomp
   * Susie      * When Day Is Done
   * Ain't-Cha Glad?      * Messin' Around
   * Too Bad

    

6. *And They Called It Dixieland w/Paramount Jazz Band of Boston - Stomp Off #1247 (CD & Tape)

   * And They Called It Dixieland      * Fig Leaf Rag
   * New Orleans Joys      * Cornet chop Suey
   * Waiting At the End of The Road      * Remember When (Si Tu Vois Ma Mere)
   * What-Cha-Call-'Em Blues      * The Mooch
   * Coventry Rag      * Creole Love Call
   * In Our Cottage of Love      * Rockin' In Rhythm
   * Candy Lips      * Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down
   * Louisiana Fairy Tale      * Yerba Buena Strut
   * I Need Lovin'

    

7. *March of the Hoodlums w/Paramount Jazz Band of Boston - Stomp Off #1340 (CD)

   * March of The Hoodlums      * Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On
   * Singin' The Blues      * I'll See You In C-U-B-A
   * Do Something      * King Joe
   * Jubilee Stomp      * Tell Me Who
   * Shanghai Stomp      * The Pearls
   * Ragging The Scale      * Moonlight
   * Dip Your Brush In The Sunshine      * Mine, All Mine
   * Heliotrope Boquet      * Sandman Blues
   * Static Strut      * Runnin' Wild
   * Blame It On The Blues      * (We're Gonna Have) Smooth Sailing

    

8. *My Momma's In Town w/Backbay Rambler (group 2) - Stomp Off #CD1279 (1994), Peter Ecklund (cornet), Bill Novick (reeds), Steve Wright (reeds), Andy Stein (violin), Peter Bullis (banjo), Bob Connors (trombone), Mark Shane and Bob Pilsbury (piano), Bill Reynolds (drums), Karen Cameron (vocals), Jim Mazzy (vocals only, no banjo, as marked*)

   * My Momma's In Town      * Sweet Papa Will Be Gone
   * Bright Boy Blues      * Honey Bunch
   * I Got Worry      * Sweetness
   * Cross Words Between Sweetie & Me      * Nobody Cares If I'm Blue
   * Ain't I Got Rosie      * Dream Sweetheart
   * Cover Me Up With Sunshine      * Lovey Came Back
   * He's So Unusual      * There's Everything Nice About You
   * Deep Harlem      * I'm Somebody's Somebody Now
   * I'd Rather Be The Girl In Your Arms      * Sugar Babe, I'm Leavin'
   * I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now      * I'll Keep On Loving You
   * I Found You "Out" When I Found      * My Regular Gal
   * Found You In Somebody Else's Arms      * Missouri Moan

    

9. *Who's She Jazzin' Now? - Stomp Off #CD1305 (1995) Jeff Hughes (cornet); Gary Rodberg/John Clark (reeds); Bob Connors/Peter Salemi, (trombone); Robin Verdier/Buck Evans (piano); Jimmy Mazzy (banjo, vocals); Stu Gunn/Al Bernard (tuba). (Mazzy vocals)

   * Watchamacallit      * 'Stamboul Rose
   * Sweet Little Swayin' Arms      * Mabel (From Coral Gables)
   * She's Got It All      * Dream Flapper
   * Howdy!      * Saxophonic Blues
   * Louisiana Cabaret      * Lyin'
   * That Cowboy Band      * Blue Shadows
   * Oh, You Devil Man      * One Night In Montparnasse
   * Gee, It's Wonderful      * Who's She Jazzin' Now?
   * Down A Little Moonlight Lane      * Marianne
   * The Zooch

    

10. *Halfway To Heaven - Stomp Off #CD1319 M "N" M Trio - Jimmy Mazzy (banjo and vocals), Eli Newberger (tuba), Joe Murany (clarinet and vocals) - (Mazzy vocals)

    * I Double Dare You      * Santa Claus Blues
    * You'll Long For Me (When The Cold      * You Rascal You
    * Dark Eyes (Otchi-tchorniya)      * Send Me To The "lectric Chair
    * In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town      * You Wonderful You 
    * Sweet Girl      * Muddy Water
    * Good Old New York      * Irish Black Bottom
    * Sonny Boy      * Tain't Nobody's Buzness If I Do
    * Don't Forget To Mess Around      * Halfway To Heaven
    * So Little Time (So Much To Do)      * Jazzbo Jenkins

     

11. *The Men They Will Become: Jazz Takes On the Male Character - Eli Newberger (tuba), Jimmy Mazzy (banjo & vocals), Butch Thompson (piano & clarinet) - 77 minutes

    * It's A Sin To Tell A lie      * Little Pal
    * Oh Peter (You're So Nice)      * If I Let You Get Away With It Once
    * I'm Just Wild About Harry      * Out It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There)
    * Ain't Misbehavin'      * Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
    * Old Fashioned Love      * Ain't Much Good In The Best Of Men Nowdays
    * I Hate Myself For Loving You      * I've Found A New Baby
    * Sonny Boy      * I Hate A Man Like You
    * There'll Be Some Changes Made      * Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jellyroll
    * Sweet Music (Will Worry Your Wolf)      * Miss Otis Regrets
    * Everybody Loves My Baby      * Aunt Hagar's Children
    * Doctor Jazz

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Recordings available from Other Producers

Harrison Records, 299 Oak street, Wakefield, MA 01880

1. * Red Hot Dance Tunes w/Backbay Ramblers - 1986, Scott Philbrick (cornet), Bill Novick (clarinet), John Battis (alto sax), Robin Verdier (piano), Stu Gunn (tuba), Bill Reynolds (drums)

   * I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling      * I Don't Want Your Kisses
   * In Our Cottage of Love      * I Wish That I Were Twins
   * Alabamy Snow      * Miss Anabelle Lee
   * You Said It      * A Melody From The Sky
   * One In A Million      * What Do I Care What Somebody Said?
   * If I Had My Way ' Bout My Sweetie      * How Could I Be Blue?
   * Sing

    

2. * Boston Shuffle w/Backbay Ramblers - 1988, Scott Philbrick (Cornet-Guitar), Bob Connors (Trombone), Steve Wright (reeds), Bill Novick (reeds), Robin Verdier (piano), Jimmy Mazzy (banjo-vocals), Stu Gunn (tuba), Bill Reynolds (drums)

   * Liza      * Walkin' With Susie
   * Sugar House Stomp      * That Teasin' Squeezin' Gal O' Mine
   * Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home      * Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
   * That's Where You're Wrong      * Won't You Be My Baby
   * Never Had A Reason To Believe In You      * Nullabor
   * Shadows On The Swanee      * Breakaway
   * Cho-King

   *Collector's Edition CD - available from Paul Burgess

    

3. Melodies From The Sky (1994-1995) Paul Burgess & The Magic Melody Gondoliers - (Collectors Edition of 300 copies) Paul Burgess - reeds; Jim Lester - piano, trombone; Dick Boutin, Mel Tukey - cornet; Henry Berry - piano; Al Bernard - tuba; Carrie Mazzy - vocals (*)

   * Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow      * What A Day!
   * You're Such A Comfort To Me! (*)      * Weary River
   * Somebody Said      * Mighty River
   * My Dixie Hidee-Hideaway      * Halfway to Heaven
   * And I Still Do      * Song of The Wanderer
   * Fun To Be Fooled (*)      * 'Deed I Do
   * What'll You Do      * Melody From The Sky
   * Peace Of Mind      * Somebody Stole My Gal
   * That Rhythm Man

    

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CDs available from Williams Reunion Jazz Band, 413-458-9113, e-mail: bobbury@aol.com

1. Just Our Best w/The Williams Reunion Jazz Band - Live at Concerts at Chapin Hall, Williams College, Williamstown, MA - John Bucher - Cornet; Bob Kingsbury - Clarinet; Jim Wheaton - Trombone; John Halsey - Piano; Fred Clifford - Tuba; Tom Hayne - drums

   * Shine      * I Want A Little Girl
   * Somebody Stole My Gal      * Fidgety Feet
   * I Found A New Baby      * Canal Street Blues
   * Runnin' Wild      * Tin Roof Blues 
   * Oh Baby!      * That's A Plenty
   * Just A Closer Walk With Thee

    

2. Just Our Best - II - 1999, John Bucher - Cornet, Bob Kingsbury - Clarinet, Jim Wheaton - Trombone, Jimmy Mazzy - Banjo/Vocals, John Halsey- Piano, Fred Clifford - tuba, Tom Hayne - Drums

   * Jazz Me Blues      * Battle Hymn of the Republic
   * Williams Reunion Blues      * Cake Walkin' Babies from Home
   * Swing That Music      * Beale Street Blues
   * Black and Blue      * River Stay Away from My Door
   * Royal Garden Blues      * Dr. Jazz
   * Everybody Loves My Baby      * When the Saints Go Marching In

    

3. The Masters of Traditional Jazz - 2000 (Williams Reunion Jazz Band: same personnel)

   * Once In A while      * Song of the Wanderer
   * Winin' Boy      * Jubilee
   * River Boat Shuffle      * Struttin' With some Barbecue
   * Tishomino Blues      * If I Could Be With You
   * Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down      * Some of These Days
   * Squeeze Me      * Milenberg Joys
   * Maple Leaf Rag      * Saints
   * That's A Plenty (Chaser)

    

4. Mississippi Memories - 2002 (Williams Reunion Jazz Band: same personnel)

   * Sleepy Time Down South      * From Monday On
   * Up a Lazy River      * My Gal Sal
   * Mama's Gone, Goodbye      * Basin Street Blues
   * Ole Miss      * Darkness on the Delta
   * Sunday      * Memphis Blues
   * The World is Waiting for the Sunrise      * Save It Pretty Mama
   * Swing That Music

    

*Cornet Chop Suey - Hot Vintage Jazz Band - (1999) Jimmy Mazzy (banjo & vocals), Gary Bohan (cornet), Ted Casher (clarinet), Jon Damian (guitar), Todd Baker (bass), Matt Gordy (drums)

* Sorry      * Pennies From Heaven
* Make Me A Pallet      * Hindustan
* Stardust      * Mama's Gone Goodbye
* Just A Gigolo      * Cornet Chop Suey 
* The Lonesome Road Blues      * Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn
* China Boy      * Blue Turning Grey Over You
* Dinah

CD - John Clark, 232 Washington Street, Norwood, MA 02061, 781-762-2298 Email:Jazzbnd@aol.com

1. **Wolverine Jazz Band Live- Jimmy Mazzy, (bjo & vocals tracks 2,4,5,8,12,13,14); Bob Sundstrom (bjo & vocals, tracks 1,6,7,9, 10,11); John Clark (clarinet); Jeff Hughes (cornet); Henry Francis and Ross Petot (pno); Rick MacWilliams (tuba); Dave Didriksen (drum)

   * Canal Street Blues      * My Blackbirds Are Blue Birds Noww
   * Oh, Miss Hannah      * Tishomingo Blues
   * Creole love Call      * How Can You Face Me?
   * Weary Blues      * Why?
   * I Never Knew      * Sugarfoot Strut
   * Flat Foot      * Illusion
   * Louisiana Fairy Tale      * Wolverine Blues

    

2. Just Pretending - Wolverine Jazz Band - Jimmy Mazzy (bjo, voc); Jeff Hughes (cornet & trumpet); John Clark (reeds); Tom Boates (trombone); Ross Petot (Piano); Rick MacWilliams (tuba); Dave Didriksen (drums).

   * When My Dreamboat Comes Home      * Melancholy
   * After You've Gone      * Just Pretending
   * Snookum      * Shimmeshawabble
   * Dardanella      * Arkansas Blues
   * Lazy      * Waiting At The End Of The Road
   * The Mooche      * Oriental Man
   * Riverboat Shuffle

    

CD - Kathleen O'Brien, Framingham, MA 01701

My Private Affair (1998) - Jimmy Mazzy (bjo & vocals), Scott Philbrick (cornet), Noel Kaletsky (clarinet), Roger Munnell (trombone), Ed Metz & Bill Whitcraft (piano), Al Bernard (tuba), Bill Reynolds Idrums)

* Swing That Music      * Old Fashioned Lovee
* What A Little Moonlight Can Do      * Goodbye (banjo solo)
* Willie the Weeper      * I Get the Blues When It Rains
* Limehouse Blues      * I'll Be A Friend With Pleasure
* Titanic Man Blues      * The Ship Titanic
* Darkness On the Delta      * Panama
* Just A Closer Walk With Thee

CD - Trinity Episcopal Church - Concord, MA 01741 - Al Ehrenfried, 9 Blue Heron Way, Acton, MA 01720, 978-264-3935

Jimmy Mazzy Sings His Heart Out! - at Trinity Episcopal Church - 10/22/00, Jimmy Mazzy (banjo, vocals), Sid Barbato (clarinet), Scott Philbrick (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jay Keyser (trombone), Bob Johnson (guitar), Dave Didricksen (drums), Al Ehrenfried (bass).

* Girl of My Dreams      * Tin Roof Bluess
* Just A Closer Walk With Thee      * Sweet Sue
* Pennies From Heaven      * Confessin'
* Basin Street Blues      * When the Saints Go Marching Inn
* Three Little Words      * Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Movie Credits (available on video)::
Walt Disney - "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken"
John Sayles - '88 - "Eight Men Out"

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