Snoozer Quinn - Melancholy Baby - 1948

[@pluck593]

The amazing thing about this guy is that no fingerstyle guitar player today can play anywhere near this guy. Remember, he's got an absolutely inventive syncopated rhythm going, while at the same time an absolutely inventive syncopated improvised lead solo. This is all at the same time! All of this on tunes that are moving around all over the place chord wise. I think he was the greatest original jazz guitar player of his era, in the era that included Eddie Lang. Lang came after him, and idolized him. Those who heard him, such as Louis Armstrong and Artie Shaw, called him the best they ever heard. This should have secured his legacy as one of the most important jazz guitarists of the early jazz era. He was criminally under documented, and forgotten.

[@bigmonmagoomba9634]

I never heard of Snoozer until last week. Glad I lived long enough to know.

[@Skipperj]

That is amazing how good that sounds for an old recording.Thanks so much Lupine22 for being a part in preserving this piece of jazz guitar history.

[@mrjimmienoone2130]

Fabulous guitar!!!

[@KawhackitaRag]

My god, this guy plays exactly like Bix Beiderbecke!!! Thanks!!!

[@msjazzmeblues]

He was quite a fan of Bix.

[@sammckinstry]

Wonderful stuff! Yes, Johnny would have heard Bix when he visited New Orleans with Whiteman, we assume. Strange for New Orleans to be influenced, rather than to influence, but there y'are! we need more of Johnny Wiggs, if anyone out there can do us a big favour, and Raymond Burke as well as the rest of 'Papa Laine's Children'.

[@sixstringsdown67]

Thanks!

[@ThinkRuler420]

awsome!

[@ElComadreja777]

A pity Snoozer didn't record more extensively.

[@Aniando]

Beauteful. Aniando

[@jmeintn]

Guitarist sounds like the great Jerry Krahn, a guitarist living in Nashville today.