... (...) ... Oooooooooppss... I think I got confused about the originator of the message, so impatient to reply that I missed this ;-) Anyway, we've got three...
You can hear Harold Randolph in action of Goin' Nut's and Oklahoma Stomp on this Ellington session: http://www.redhotjazz.com/sixjolly.html If anybody had...
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David W. Littlefield
dwlit@...
Oct 24, 2006 10:42 pm
I tend to agree that one usually can judge whether what he's listening to is jazz. However: how are you defining "swing"? This is important because so much 20s...
There are a lot of aspects to swinging. Two that are easier to define than others are playing off the 2, i. e. the even numbered beats are accented and...
In reponse to the original question concerning improvization: I did a cursory check of several pre-war and early-war (1938-1944) jazz books (Panassie's The...
... Thank you. The trouble with any definition that focusses on improvisation can be seen and heard at any contemporary "jazz" festival (in Europe anyway)....
... But is it true? I suspect Mr. Vest merely invented some proprietory version (and possibly the name which doesn't seem to be recorded before 1884). The...
Has anyone else been receiving 2 copies of some of the e-mails on Red Hot Jazz? Not all just some, or is the problem at my end. I have done a complete...
One of the first LP's I purchased as a youth was an "X" Vault Original (RCA) recording of the Washboard Rhythm Kings. Those eight sides are full of energy and...
... Most published personnels on these bands are pretty speculative except in so far as they have taken notice of the researches of Theo Zwicky and Johnny ...
There is an interesting site about kazoos and derivations: http:// www.captainkazoo.com (disclosure - I have actually met Captain Kazoo and he is the ...
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David W. Littlefield
dwlit@...
Oct 25, 2006 5:42 pm
... My first exposure to this munch of musicians was a dearly loved LP of the Washboard Serenaders. If one ever has a chance, get the Serenaders--I think their...
Peter L. has a point about Celestin's early recordings. So much has been written, so many theories have been aired, about what Bolden's band sounded like. Sam...
... Everyone has received 2 copies of some messages from one or several Yahoo groups some time or other... nothing to worry about. Patrice (back home very...
Hi A big source of debate here. In his book The Jazz Scene which was published in the UK in the late fifties Francis Netwon (aka Eric Hobsbaum) makes a claim...
... I knew Jack's sister Norma, but I never asked her about that. The one time I met Jack's mother she did look like she could have had Native American blood...
Re: the Teagarden origins I'm quoting from Richard Sudhalter's tome, Lost Chords: "The Teagarden family was of German extraction, and (contrary to various ...
I just want to thank Agustin, Howard, David and Jack for the info on the Washboard Reythm Kings. For 55 years I've been collecting reissues and reading what I...
It's been a while since I announced the recent additions to the site. Since the end of August several hundred songs have been added to the Red Hot Jazz Archive...
... I suspect Teagarden himself was the source of this myth by way of his accounts of attending Indian pow-wows in Oklahoma in his teens and feeling a great...
... The above site links to a piece by Michael Fink at <http://www.kazoos.com/historye.htm> which seems to tie the history, including the role of Alabama Vest,...
Some more egg on my face ;-) Jean-Pierre Lion told me that there were actually four recordings by Vian and Luter (Aug. and July 1944), available on the...
... Not to be confused with his Boris Vian: le Jazz et Saint-Germain, 1993 (note subtle difference in title), which does not have the CD (though a lot of the ...
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RedHotJazz@yahoogroup...
Oct 27, 2006 10:02 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the RedHotJazz group. File : /lil Hardin...
Hello I hope you can help me find the name of this song that I have uploaded a clip of into the files.I believe it's Lil Hardin and Louis Armstrong,but I don't...
Hi Stewart, It's "Too Busy" (Okeh 8596). Mike Amato stewmclean <stewmclean@...> wrote: Hello I hope you can help me find the name of this song that I...
