The loss of status of the Creoles was a direct result of the civil war and the imposition of the more rigid Anglo-Saxon society in place of the more...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
May 5, 2006 7:11 am
Howard I have just re-listened JRT CD source for the Gingersnaps and am much impressed with the technical quality of Keppard, except possibly for the rather...
2580
Michael Rader
armstark2000
May 5, 2006 7:08 am
Coming in rather late on this due to absence from internet access, there was a "theory" some years ago that jazz spring up more or less simultaneously...
2579
Fritz Miller
fritzie136
May 5, 2006 5:39 am
If you ldo a Google search for All Star Trio you will find a number of sites that contain bio's etc for this group. I have about six tracks that I have found...
2578
bsfdl
stikhndlr
May 5, 2006 5:39 am
... Charlie, If you go to www.google.com and type in (with quotation marks) "Lipp's Lower Level" and press search, you'll see the first result is a reference...
2577
Samantha
smcolahan
May 4, 2006 8:46 pm
That's great to hear :). Thank you for all the information. ... but the owner is a jazz historian ADN a contractor, and he will make sure it's repaired...
2576
loerchen2@...
loerchen2
May 4, 2006 6:07 pm
Samantha, Jelly Roll Morton's house is still standing. It took some damage, but the owner is a jazz historian ADN a contractor, and he will make sure it's...
2575
Samantha
smcolahan
May 4, 2006 5:52 pm
Hi, I've recently been reading a book about Buddy Bolden, and as I was reading it, I couldn't help but wonder if the area of New Orleans that Bolden played a...
2574
Charles Jacobus
battleship_62
May 4, 2006 5:14 pm
Upon discage from the U.S.Navy in 1947,I and a fellow dischargee went to Chicago,where he lived. The second night there we went to a nightclub he knew about ...
2573
Howard Rye
howardrye
May 4, 2006 5:10 pm
As threatened I have tried to follow up in public records three of the best-known musicians that we know or believe to have been créoles de couleur passing...
2572
Howard Rye
howardrye
May 4, 2006 5:06 pm
I swear I proof-read it first but I still missed the cock-up in Theogene Baquet's birth date. It was April 1854. Howard Rye, 20 Coppermill Lane, London,...
2571
Chris Tyle
silverleafjb
May 4, 2006 4:40 pm
Saying Keppard's playing was on an amateur level is a ludicrous statement, if it's based on comparing what he was doing with what Armstrong was doing at the...
2570
tommersl
May 4, 2006 3:56 pm
... ========= I listen to some of the white artists performing Jazz, however, I don't see myself as heaving a broad enough knowledge to conclude about it. When...
2569
Andrew Homzy
homzy2000
May 4, 2006 2:03 pm
... I don't listen to that particular piece by the Casa Loma Orchestra very much myself....
2568
heckman_michael
May 4, 2006 1:33 pm
... " I don't listen to white jazz" I'm curious. Why not?...
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David W. Littlefield
dwlit@...
May 4, 2006 10:44 am
... Thank you, though I'd be less gentle: whatever Keppard's reputation, the records I've listened to carefully have him playing at an amateur level... --Sheik...
2566
Howard Rye
howardrye
May 4, 2006 10:39 am
... So how did they get round the legal ban on blacks and whites playing together in public. Or is this aspect of legal segregation just a fiction? I seem to...
2565
Howard Rye
howardrye
May 4, 2006 10:21 am
... Maybe he just heard it differently from you. We don't have to assume racism as an explanation for every artistic disagreement. ... Exactly what I said, but...
2564
Howard Rye
howardrye
May 4, 2006 10:07 am
... Messin' Around by Cookie's Gingersnaps confirms it quite sufficiently for me! The Paramount coupling is pretty good too in a decent dubbing. Unfortunately ...
2563
Scott Alexander
scottealexander
May 4, 2006 7:22 am
Here you go daddy o: http://www.redhotjazz.com/allstartrio.html http://www.pas.org/Museum/Gerhardt/Artists/green.cfm http://www.pas.org/About/HOF/ghgreen.cfm ...
2562
David Brown
johnhaleysims
May 4, 2006 7:12 am
Many thanks Albert for posting the long Blesh, a source long ago consigned to the dustbin --er -- garbage can -- of Jazz History, the ultimate perversion of...
2561
artist41383
May 4, 2006 5:31 am
I recently was given a record that belonged to my grandfather (and I am guessing his parents as he was not born until 1930). In researching the record I was...
2560
tommersl
May 4, 2006 12:38 am
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/musicology/echo/Volume1-Issue1/ake/ake-article.html By posting the above link it doesn't mean I agree with any , some or all...
2559
tommersl
May 3, 2006 9:59 pm
I was trying to find definitions to the terms above. As I don't have any resource to use I have my humble opinion and maybe there are better ways to define it...
2558
loerchen2@...
loerchen2
May 3, 2006 9:24 pm
Howard, "Passing" wasn't necessarily a secret thing; some people did it all the time, some just when it suited them. Perkins was a member of 174, but he...
2557
tommersl
May 3, 2006 8:29 pm
... ============================================================== Makes a lot of sense. Blesh must have been a Jewish, judging from your description at least...
2556
Albert Haim
alberthaim
May 3, 2006 7:54 pm
Blesh mentions Bix -most, if not all, of what he writes is a vitriolicatttack- in several places of his book "Shining Trumpets, A History ofJazz." Here are...
2555
Ron L'Herault
hotjazzron
May 3, 2006 7:13 pm
When you stop to think about it, white kids are still "playing" like blacks. Some copy singing styles while others just copy clothing styles and mannerisms. ...
2554
Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ
May 3, 2006 5:13 pm
... Yes, no, maybe... of course everything's included in everything and vice-versa, but the original "substance" involved too general concepts that had really...
2553
Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ
May 3, 2006 4:34 pm
... From: tommersl ... In a way, this is what I had in mind. I was about to tell Howard that if I should write my own definition of jazz, it probably wouldn't...
