This was an early jazz supergroup put together for a late-'20s recording session. Some of the players featured in the Jungle Town Stompers were working together regularly, yet it is probable that the particular combination of musicians and the direction they chose to go on this particular date were highly influenced by the OKeh producer. The invited talent included Elmer Snowden, here playing banjo, a multi-instrumentalist whose calendar of recording session activity in the '20s rivaled any '60s Hollywood session dude's datebook for scribble power.

Luis Russell took charge of piano duties, one of several performers in the stomping aggregation with reputations as bandleaders in their own right. Pianist and composer Spencer Williams was responsible for the entire repertoire this ensemble documented, a total of only two tunes. The charm of African Jungle and Slow as Molasses need not lapse into unsatisfied cravings for more such material. The busy interaction of the star performers involved overlaps into other ensembles recorded in the same period, including the Musical Stevedores and Jasper Davis His Orchestra. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi