Hot Five Jazzmakers - "Nobody But My Baby"- Jazz in Toronto

This week's video clip shows the Hot Five Jazzmakers vintage June 18 1999 and you can view it by clicking on the above URL. You will see some of the old faces from previous line-ups. Gary Scriven played drums & washboard with the H5JM for 7 years from 1995-2002. Gary is the son of Graham, who plays drums on other H5JM video clips. Reide Kaiser became the band's regular pianist for 4 years from October 1998 and appears on two of the band's CD's. Colin Bray played string bass from 1990-2003. Rainer Hunck played both bass and banjo with the group. On bass from 1988-90 and banjo from 1990-2004. He made the switch when banjoist John Reid returned to Australia This cut by the Hot Five Jazzmakers (all 6 of èm!) was to help promote the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival and provide some camera and recording practice (a'hem!) for technicians at a local community TV station. It is dated June 18th 1999. The tune "Nobody But My Baby" was written by Clarence Williams with lyrics by Andy Razaf. It was first recorded by Clarence Williams in 1926. Janet Shaw plays alto sax and sings while leader Brian Towers plays muted, (very muted!) trombone. The band recorded this tune on CD also, in March 2000 with the same line-up. The album is called "Did You Mean It?" and is still available.