And there are two very interesting Gennett CD's from Timeless: Those Fabulous Gennetts Vol. 1 http://www.timelessjazz.com/product_info.php?products_id=86 And...
The Fletcher Henderson chapter was published in the two latest IAJRC Journals (Vol.42 nš2 - June 2009 & Vol.42 nš3 - September 2009), two installments. It...
If anyone is interested in his first wife I have information. She was my mother's cousin. Linda B. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I would be interested in anything about Sidney Arodin - so little is known about the man who was, in my opinion, one of the finest clarinetists it the 1920's. ...
Wesley Dick is Sidney's nephew or great-nephew. His website is: http://wesleydick.com/ Wes has done much to illuminate Sidney's life and career. Cheers, Ric...
Do you have Wesley's email address? I would send this on to him also if I had it. If not, would you be able to pass this on to him? Thank you, Linda...
Yves and anybody I have listened through the Big Charlie Thomas CD (Timeless) again in light of recent information. My conclusion is that 'Big Charlie' is...
I am very familiar with the Birmingham Bluetette recording of "Old Man Blues" (courtesy of the Jimmy Blythe CD on Document, although it is Tindull and NOT...
Bob Eagle and I wrote up Cline Tindull (which was how he signed his name) for Names & Numbers 46. He was born 21 October 1899, died Chicago 4 May 1938, so I...
Since yesterday I am a new member of this group, having been invited by Michael Rader and I would like to say Hallo to all participants! Having purchased FROG...
There is a possibility that the Blue Rhythm Orch's "Keep Your Temper" will be issued at some stage on another Frogspawn volume. Meanwhile, on behalf of the...
K.B., everyone, ... The Morris sides on LP were something of a confusion. There were LPs on French RCA and Collectors Classics which partly overlapped and...
The trombonist goes back to New Hot Discography at least, but is all the odder because the personnel as originally given to Eugene Williams and reported in...
I perhaps should have added that if anyone thinks they are hearing things when they attempt to use the details of the difference between the takes in the notes...
Should I take this as a suggestion that we should listen closely to the lyrics on both takes? Incidentally, given the scarcity of Punch Miller recordings from...
Well, as I hear it, the easily annotatable difference is as follows: C-6180 orig (Frog DGF9); alt (Herwin H108, Frog DGF71) First line of vocal orig...
The survival of English nursery rhymes in American and then in African-American culture is a fascinating topic on which there must be some literature. I was...
According to one reference, the lines:- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe She didn't have no children because she knowed what to do find their source...
When receiving Ristic 26 about 40 years ago, I immediately wrote a letter to John R.T. expressing my assumption, that this was the Charlie Johnson band. First...
Hello KB (please excuse my not knowing your full name) and all else re: the Marathon 78 I have spent the morning (and part of the afternoon) reading this...
Listening ten or so times for the trumpet really is dedication ;-) and if the Hot'n'Sweet uses the Davies transfer, it can't entirely be torture. After what KB...
Hi All, Can anyone help me please with an e-mail address. I am looking for the new e-mail address for Chris Burke (Clarinet) in New Orleans. He kindly showed...
Michael, sorry, yes, I forgot to name St. Clair. It certainly is him! The Ristic personnel listed Buster Bailey as clarinetist, but I think it is just Ben...
Yves, KB and all, I've always thought of Leonard Davis mainly as a lead trumpeter - and it's difficult to find other examples of his solo playing (e.g. with...
K.B., You're definitely right about the Williams reed players (see our never-ending thread about the clarinet on "Red Hot Flo"). There are many sessions...
I've tried for months to have the name of the piano player on the Casino Royale sides corrected, to no avail. He's listed as Art Hodges when in fact it was Art...
Such corrections should be directed at the RedHotJazz site owner, Scott Alexander, and not this list, which is a discussion group sharing the name. I think...