Hartzell "Tiny" Parham - Cathedral Blues

Hartzell Strathdene "Tiny" Parham (1900, Winnipeg, Canada-1943, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a vastly underrated Canadian-born American jazz bandleader and pianist. Parham grew up in Kansas City and toured with territory bands in the Southwestern United States before moving to Chicago in 1926. He is best remembered for the recordings he made in Chicago between 1927 and 1930, as an accompanist for Johnny Dodds and several female blues singers as well as with his own band. Most of the musicians Parham played with are not well known in their own right, though cornetist Punch Miller and bassist Milt Hinton are exceptions. He cut 38 sides between 1928 to 1930. This impressive record was made in 1929.