Bailey’s Lucky Seven (Sam Lanin’s Orchestra) – Chicago, Fox-Trot (F. Fisher), Gennett 1922 (USA)

NOTE: The Bailey’s Lucky Seven was led by the bandleader and music agent Sam Lanin. No one named Bailey was ever a part of this group and sometimes there were more than 7 players during a recording session. Lanin organized sessions in the New York studio for Gennett and basically used the Original Memphis Five which was founded simultaneously by Phil Napoleon and Frank Signorelli, and added an additional cornetist to supplement the ensemble (sometimes it was Red Nichols), Lanin also used Earl Oliver and several other musicians who would be very famous in the future musicians, as Phil Napoleon on cornet, Irving ‘Miff’ Mole on trombone, Jimmy Lytell on clarinet or Frank Signorelli on piano. Bailey’s Lucky Seven recorded over a hundred sides for Gennett in five years (between Oct 1921 – late 1926), the group’s style was between a pop dance and a hot jazz band and the band never had a solid identity, with various and often changing members. In history of the American Jazz Age, the Bailey’s Lucky Seven are inequitably considered as simply a pop society dance band of the early 1920’s, although the core members consisted of well known instrumentalists of the Jazz Age.

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