... According to the date, it should closely follow a very long film (4 parts) released by Jean-Cristophe Averty for the French TV - I've still got a copy, but...
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Rader, Michael
armstark2000
Sep 28, 2004 9:29 am
According to the web page: http://www.positifs.org/jazz-passion/20-FAQs/E.Musiciensindex.htm it seems to be a discography. "- Olivier Brard & Daniel Nevers :...
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Patrice Champarou
pmchamp@...
Sep 28, 2004 4:02 pm
... It should, although they declare that any book including a discography is listed under this entry. Nothing on ebay, or online shops selling second-hand...
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rjdewar
Sep 28, 2004 4:12 pm
I`m Rob Dewar and I guess an intro would be a nice way to start. I am 47 yrs. old, grew up in a small Northern Ontario town in Canada where I was exposed to...
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Andrew Homzy
homzy2000
Sep 28, 2004 4:18 pm
Dear Scott, Thank you so much for adding those "Sparks: to the website. "Red Hot Hottentot" literally burnt me up. Whatever the merits of J.C. [passion not...
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Chris Smith
outskerries
Sep 28, 2004 4:26 pm
... Rust gives Walter Bennett, c[ornet]; J.C. Higginbotham, tb; unknown; cl; unknown, as; Mabel Horsey, p; unknown, bj. Chris Smith ...
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Chris Smith
outskerries
Sep 28, 2004 4:33 pm
... Having read the small print, I see that Rust lists all these as possibilities only. (Well, I guess he means the unknowns really are unknowns, but you know...
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Andrew Homzy
homzy2000
Sep 28, 2004 4:39 pm
Dear Chris, Thanks for the info. I was on the mark with Higginbotham - he did leave out his trademark snake-shake. Who is cornetist/trumpeter Walter Bennett?...
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Scott Alexander
scottealexander
Sep 28, 2004 4:40 pm
The latest Rust guesses that the following personnel played on the record: Walter Bennett - Cornet Mabel Horsey - Piano (but then says that J.C. Johnson's...
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Scott Alexander
scottealexander
Sep 28, 2004 4:50 pm
The only other Walter Benett session on the site: http://www.redhotjazz.com/bennett.html Scott Alexander The Red Hot Jazz Archive www.redhotjazz.com ... From:...
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Andrew Homzy
homzy2000
Sep 28, 2004 4:52 pm
Dear Scott, Thank you for more details. To my last post, I also ask: Who is George James and if he played alto sax so well, why isn't he better known, It also...
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Andrew Homzy
homzy2000
Sep 28, 2004 5:05 pm
Dear Scott, This is getting interesting. "Jet Black Blues" is the same as "Crying For You (Baby Mine)" - both composed by J.C. Johnson. I need more listening...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Sep 28, 2004 5:10 pm
Bennett was, I think, of Caribbean origin. He recorded with Gerald Clark's Night Owls and can be heard in that context on Poor But Ambitious, an Arhoolie CD by...
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Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ
Sep 28, 2004 5:25 pm
Welcome Robert ... On the contrary, I wish this group to become a link between hardcore collectors or specialists, and people (like myself) for whom pre-war...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Sep 28, 2004 5:44 pm
I'm not sure which on-line sources you are referring to, Robert, but it sounds like they are sticking with the rather tired theory that after the Hot Fives and...
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Joel Fritz
lc_calamese
Sep 28, 2004 6:32 pm
... This is one of the great controversies. On one hand you have tunes like "Wild Man Blues" and on the other there's "Swing That Music" or any number of...
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Rader, Michael
armstark2000
Sep 28, 2004 6:51 pm
George James replaced Omer Simeon with Jabbo Smith's Aces. Mabel Horsey is mentioned as having been contracted by JC Johnson to play on the Sparks recordings...
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P.W. Fenton
pwfenton
Sep 28, 2004 10:24 pm
... The bottom line for me is that I love EVERYTHING the man ever did. He was incapable of a half effort. All the way to the Hello Dolly/Ed Sullivan days he...
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Scott Alexander
scottealexander
Sep 28, 2004 11:54 pm
I've added six new OM5 songs to the site. They were sent in by Carl Rose. Thanks Carl. http://www.redhotjazz.com/om5.html I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER...
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Ron L'Herault
hotjazzron
Sep 29, 2004 1:55 am
George James also played with Louis Armstrong and later in his life, with the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, the outfit I saw him with in the 1970s. Even at that...
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Rader, Michael
armstark2000
Sep 29, 2004 7:02 am
Yes, I can remember seeing the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band too. It's sometimes remarkable how many of these vintage players managed to even improve with...
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Mugg Muggles
muggmuggles
Sep 29, 2004 7:03 am
... incapable of a half effort. I heartily agree that there is no such thing as a mediocre performance by Pops, who could sing a tuna casserole recipe and make...
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Rader, Michael
armstark2000
Sep 29, 2004 7:35 am
Patrice, When I first read this, I though you wrote you had some 600 JSP CDs and was going to ask you how you found that many ;-). Then I realised you meant...
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Mugg Muggles
muggmuggles
Sep 29, 2004 7:48 am
Sometime in the mid 1980's I attended a performance at the Rheem Theatre in California's Contra-Costa County by a group of veteran cats including Eddie Durham,...
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Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ
Sep 29, 2004 8:17 am
Hello Michael ... I'm afraid I'm always a bit elliptic, whatever the language;) Actually - and without any regards to the series numbers - I was thinking of ...
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Rader, Michael
armstark2000
Sep 29, 2004 8:18 am
This is the group mentioned in the postings on George James. It was a group of veteran swing-era musicians, some of whom started their careers in the 1920s and...
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Rader, Michael
armstark2000
Sep 29, 2004 8:40 am
Bonjour Patrice, Maybe this is slightly OT, but anyway you're the moderator (;-) and I know exactly what you mean: there was a partwork series by Orbis called...
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Mugg Muggles
muggmuggles
Sep 29, 2004 8:42 am
Michael- that's service !! Thirty minutes to answer a question which has bugged me for almost 20 years. A thousand thanks. -- Mugg The Man With the Jive...
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jm-borello
jeanmichel63
Sep 29, 2004 11:04 am
Good morning everybody! First,let me introduce myself: Jean Michel Borello,french (nobody's perfect), 57 and retired (almost) ,long time jazz/blues...
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Contijoch
Sep 29, 2004 11:42 am
Dear Scott: This is a work in progress, I think. I was lucky enough to find the first three parts when I bought the papers of a deceased argentine collector....
