1922 78 released on Gennett Records.

"Farewell Blues" is a 1922 jazz standard written by Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo and Elmer Schoebel.

It was first released by the seminal jazz band New Orleans Rhythm Kings under the name the Friars Society Orchestra.

Background

The song was recorded on August 29, 1922, in Richmond, Indiana and released as Gennett 4966A, Matrix #11179, as by the Friars Society Orchestra under the direction of Husk O'Hara.[1] It was first released by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings under the name the Friars Society Orchestra and soon was covered by several jazz bands.[2] A band called The Georgians recorded it in 1923, copying Roppolo's acclaimed clarinet solo note for note.[3]

As well as the many cover versions by jazz performers during the swing era, the tune was also picked up by Hawaiian music artists in this period such as Sam Ku West and Sol Hoopii, and later by instrumentalists in other genres, such as Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs who recorded a bluegrass arrangement of "Farewell Blues" in 1955.

Cover versions

Notes

  1. ↑ New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Red Hot Jazz.
  2. ↑ Farewell Blues. Second-Hand Songs.
  3. ↑ Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recorded Jazz. Rick Kennedy and Steve Allen. Indiana University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-253-21315-0. p.56

See also



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