Sam Morgan's Jazz Band

Title: Over In The Glory Land

Recorded for your listening pleasure from the original 78 rpm disc

Columbia # 14539-D -- recorded October 22, 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana
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Wikipedia bio:

Sam Morgan (1895--1936) was a New Orleans jazz trumpet player and bandleader.
The recordings by Sam Morgan's Jazz Band for Columbia Records in 1927 are some of the best regarded New Orleans classic jazz recordings of the decade, and continue to be influential. Sidemen in the band included brothers Isaiah Morgan on trumpet and Andrew Morgan on tenor sax. Earl Fouche' played alto sax. Trombonist Jim Robinson later achieved fame working with Bunk Johnson, George Lewis], and at Preservation Hall. Robinson's cousin Sidney Brown {aka Little Jim or Jim Little) was the bassist, and later worked with George Lewis, most notably on the Climax sessions in the 1940s. George Guesnon was Morgan's banjoist from 1930 to 1935.
The "Young Morgan Band" as it was commonly called by fans of the day, was one of the most popular territory bands touring the gulf coast circuit (Galveston, Texas to Pensacola, Florida)
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Info on the great Sam Morgan Band and S.S. Capitol Riverboat pictures seen in the clip (from the great Hogan Jazz Archive at The Tulane University):

The picture of Sam Morgan's Jazz Band from circa 1927, includes (from left to right) Nolan Williams, Isaiah Morgan, Jim Robinson, Sam Morgan, Earl Fouche, Sidney Brown, Andrew Morgan, and Johnny Dave. The Morgan band was another New Orleans group which worked on the Capitol, usually alternating with one of Marable's bands. Isaiah Morgan tells the story of the competition which occurred on one such excursion in which Marable was so angered by the audience's enthusiasm for the Morgan band that he disconnected the amplifying device which the band was using. "The Streckfus people wondered why the band was not playing (or being heard), so I discovered Marable's trick, turned the amplifier on, and the day was won." The Morgan band, like Marable's, was known for its consistent dance tempo, which may have accounted for its popularity on the riverboats. However, by the latter 1920's, Marable's bands (this one co-led by St. Louis cornetist Dewey Jackson) were made up primarily of non-New Orleans musicians, so the Sam Morgan Jazz Band also had the advantage of being the home-town favorite.

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