Jack Pettis, an early preswing jazz pioneer, became a mystery when he dropped out of the music world by 1940 and was not heard from again. His inevitable death went unnoticed and nothing is known about his later life despite extensive research by many curious jazz fans. Pettis was a solid if not overly distinctive player throughout his truncated career. He was self-taught on the C-melody saxophone as a teenager. He worked in Chicago with Elmer Schoebel and Paul Mares
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Sweet Georgia Brown
Jack Pettis - Bugle Call Blues
Jack Pettis - Freshman Hop
Bugle Call Rag
Broadway Stomp
Freshman Hop
Stockholm Stomp
He's The Last Word
St. Louis Shuffle - Take 2
Muddy Water
St. Louis Shuffle - Take 3
It All Depends On You
Bugle Call Blues
I Gotta Get Myself Somebody to Love
I'm Back In Love Again
Sweetest Melody
Ain't She Sweet? - Take 1
That's My Hap-Happiness
Bag O' Blues
Ain't She Sweet? - Take 2
Hot Heels
Bugle Call Rag - 1989 Remastered
Hot Heels - 6/20/28
Campus Crawl
That's My Hap-Hap-Happiness
Ellingtonia: Intro - Black and Tan Fantasy - It Don't Mean a Thing - Mood Indigo - Bugle Call Rag
Ain't She Sweet?
Broadway Melody
Good Morning Mr Sun
St. Louis Shuffle
Doin' The New Low Down
Stockholm Stomp - 12/16/26
Speedy Boy
Dry Martini - 6/20/28
A Bag of Blues
Steppin' It Off - 12/22/27
Nobody's Sweetheart - 11/6/28
St. Louis Shuffle (Take 2)
Miss What
That
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Bugle Call Rag - Ole Miss
Broadway Stomp - 6/20/28
Wild & Wooly Willie - 5/9/29
St. Louis Shuffle (Take 3)
Ain't She Sweet? (Take 1)
Miss Annabelle Lee
Bag O’Blues
Nobody's Sweetheart
Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me?
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