The Waldos - Rent Party (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue)
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Description
A rent party (sometimes called a house party) is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent, originating in Harlem during the 1920s. These parties were a means for black tenants to eat, dance, and get away from everyday hardship and discrimination. The rent party played a major role in the development of jazz and blues music, alongside forms of swing dancing. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the term skiffle means "rent party", indicating the informality of the occasion. Thus, the word became associated with informal music. However, many notable jazz musicians are associated with rent parties, including pianists Speckled Red, Georgia Tom, Little Brother Montgomery, James P. Johnson, Willie "the Lion" Smith, and Fats Waller, although rent parties also featured bands as well. The OED also gives boogie as a term meaning 'rent party'. Rent parties were often the location of so-called cutting contests, which involves jazz pianists taking turns at the piano, attempting to out-do each other. Due to the disappearance of paid gigs during the COVID-19 pandemic, pianist and Harlem resident, Emmet Cohen started his version of the rent party as an online streaming concert on Monday nights to generate paid gigs for his trio with bassist Russell Hall, drummer Kyle Poole, as well as other musicians living or traveling through in New York. The concert series is titled "Live From Emmet's Place." The in-person audience is limited to eight while the live online audience averages 1000 attendees on Facebook and YouTube. One of the uploaded concert videos featuring singer Cyrille Aimee has accumulated over 4 million views.
Release Info
Artist: The Waldos
Label: Jungle Records
Format: LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue
Country: UK, Europe & US
Label: Jungle Records
Released: 2021-07-17
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Punk
Tracklist
A1 Cry Baby
A2 Love That Kills
A3 Sorry
A4 Seven Day Weekend
A5 Never Get Away
A6 Golden Days
A7 Crazy Little Baby
B1 Flight
B2 Count Down Love
B3 Busted
B4 Crazy Little Baby
B5 Crazy Bout Your Love
B6 Party Lights
B7 Cry Baby
