Hi. I'm also a new member. Hopefully by answering your question I'm not retreading ground that's well covered in this group. My collection of bands w/ vocals: ...
I recently stumbled on the red hot jazz archive. Thanks to everyone responsible for this terrific web site. I especially like bands with vocalists. So far I've...
Hello, all Maybe slightly off-topic, but where else could I ask? The recent discussion about the "first blues" got me more than interested in Bert Williams......
Does anyone know where I can get the full version of Chris Albertson's tapes of Ruby Walker's interviews about Bessie Smith? I have clips of it on a CD....
Ted Shafer's Jelly Roll Jazz Band continues to appear every Tuesday from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at the new J.T. LaBeau's Restaurant in downtown Martinez, California....
While we're on the subject, here's what I came up with for available reproductions of music in Morton's hand. A bit silly, really, since it comes down to three...
Note on the published orchestrations of Red Hot Peppers records. I haven't seen them all, and it's been a long time since I studied them, but they're a mixed...
Dear list, I am searching for scans of Jelly Roll sheet music, as printed by Tempo, Melrose or other publishers during or just after Morton's lifetime. The...
There's always been a connection between western swing and "territory" jazz in the southwestern U.S. Benny Strickler, who was mentioned in the Watters/Yerba...
Although I haven't heard several of these, the list does include a number of blues and other titles which look suspicoiusly familiar (no.1). No 7/8 (listed...
Duff Campbell's Revenge was written by Turk Murphy, not by Eddie Condon. Condon recorded it for Columbia. The tune was dedicated to Turk's friend, Charlie...
Turk, Lu, Humph - anyone ever get to hear the Bell Band? They had quite a bit to do with what happened in Europe, and could outswing any band that Turk Murphy...
The Oliver MP3 "When I Take My Sugar To Tea" has been available under "Files" on our web-site for quite some time now. Music files use up quite a bit of our...
I think I can date this a little closer. Photos from Bechet from 1944 show him playing that particular white mouthpiece, which Bob Wilbur told me was an Arnold...
Hello, found your group while searching for info on this Okeh record. I see it has been reissued, but I am wondering are there many of these around? Okeh 8682...
Hello listmates, We have been discussing, in the Bix Forum, Goldkette's recording (10/15/26) of "Sunday." There is a split trombone solo by Bill Rank at about...
OK, now that we've established the first blues recording, here's another question to ponder. I'd like to know what you all think would be the first recorded...
It is assumed that Louis Armstrong started scatting on Heebies Jeebies after he forgot the lyrics, but I heard Frankie And Johnnie by The Fate Marable's...
Prior to 1917 there aren't many recordings with a "Blues" in the titel. I found over the years only a handfull.: - Memphis Blues 15.7.1914/Victor Military...
_____ De: Luis [mailto:contijoch1@...] Enviado el: Jueves, 28 de Septiembre de 2006 10:05 a.m. Para: 'No Reply' Asunto: The First Blues Records Scott: Both...
Gentlemen, Would you please "clean" your messages while replying? We do not need Scott's list again and again, preceding or following one-line comments. ...
I have here Harmograph 795, "Barney Google" backed with "Snakes Hips" and credited to the Harmograph Dance Orchestra. Rust in ADBD states that this is a pseud...
Driving home from work the other night, I was listening to Jelly and the Peppers when on came, the track by Jelly I dislike the most, (apart from the Billie...
Thanks to Howard for the Socarras citations on jazz flute. Sorry if I sent it as a "private" message. It wasn't supposed to have been, but I could have clicked...
This has been sent to me off-list (for unknown reasons but I withhold the senders name in the absence of permission to forward, which I cannot obtain because...
Hello one and all. As the newest member of this group, I thought I'd introduce myself with a question that I've wondered about now and then for a good number...
On this day (15th September) 80 years ago, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers assembled at the Webster Hotel in Chicago, and recorded that day and in...
