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Maxwell Street Stomp

King Mutt & His
Tennessee Thumpers

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Recorded in Richmond, Indiana on February 12th 1929 Punch Miller trumpet, Arnett Nelson clarinet, George James alto sax, Frank Melrose piano, Willie Baker guitar, and Tommy Taylor drums. -(Recordings from this session were also issued on the Champion and Vocalion labels under the alternate billing of "Frisky Foot Jackson & His Thumpers".)

*"Maxwell Street Stomp" was composed by ? Jimmy Blythe.

Though he learned a lot from his close friendship with the great Jelly Roll Morton, as a pianist stylistically Frank Melrose was very much an entity all his own.

At this amazing February 1929 Gennett session held a short distance away from Chicago in near-by Richmond, Indiana, Frank Melrose can be heard performing as the leader of a racially integrated jazz band billed under the misleading pseudonym "King Mutt" and his "Tennessee Thumpers".