Howard wrote: "Frank Johnson in his book Australian Jazz Explosion rather pithily identifies two types of fool: Those who think something old is always good, ...
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Tony Standish
standish_au
Mar 19, 2007 2:45 pm
Robert Greenwood's remarks about Preservation Hall are astute. However. The great bluesmen were somewhat diminished when they were "discovered" by either or...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Mar 19, 2007 3:57 pm
I think rather that Preservation Hall was more a symptom than a cause of the older styles dying out. It opened once the older venues started to close down and...
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Albert Haim
alberthaim
Mar 19, 2007 4:31 pm
Hello Rick, I am sure you did not mean to provide an exhaustive list of all the ingredients that contributed to the creation of jazz. But I would like to...
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loerchen2@...
loerchen2
Mar 19, 2007 5:00 pm
I agree that the popularity of jazz started to die out when the dancers moved on to different styles of music and jazz became a spectator art form. Luckily,...
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Rick Hensel
nomcaller
Mar 19, 2007 7:21 pm
Hello Albert, Thank you for your response. You are correct in those being included and that I wasn't trying to make the whole list (lol). I believe that the...
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PDQBlues@...
pdqblues
Mar 19, 2007 9:42 pm
Although I have little to add to this tremendously interesting discussions on such an abstract concept of "when did Jazz die," I did wish to thank those who...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Mar 20, 2007 10:49 am
Why is Latin a dead ... is being ... I know this is veering dangerously close to being off-topic, but Latin is not a dead language. Without some understanding...
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Tony Standish
standish_au
Mar 20, 2007 3:53 pm
Despite having the dubious distinction of once being the only one in my class to pass the Latin exam (51 out of 100!), all that remained were random bits such...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Mar 20, 2007 4:18 pm
As well as making sure that my daughter heard plenty of jazz in her infant years (she even heard Ken Colyer in, or, at least, from, the womb while attending,...
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PDQBlues@...
pdqblues
Mar 20, 2007 6:53 pm
Uhm, my apologies for making what may have been an inappropriate analogy. But heck, I never took Latin nor did well in my English course work either. :D What I...
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Rick Hensel
nomcaller
Mar 20, 2007 7:34 pm
I agree, Paul. I think Jazz in the 20's and 30's had a more "positive"; attitude--an "uplifting" quality to it, because conditions of everyday life were worse...
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Albert Haim
alberthaim
Mar 20, 2007 8:39 pm
In jest, (but not completely), I often state that jazz died on Aug 6, 1931, the day Bix died. The jazz and hot dance music from the 1920s had a freshness, a...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Mar 21, 2007 10:31 am
... I don't think it's likely to be a productive thing to discuss on this list, but it may be worth recommending anyone interested in the complex origins of ...
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alfzampi
Mar 21, 2007 6:22 pm
... scene in ... members ... some of ... added ... Hi Todd Phil Napoleon was my Uncle.He had I beleive four brothers.His brother Teddy was my Grandfather.He...
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tommersl
Mar 22, 2007 1:29 am
All quoted from Roger Pryor Dodge: "A common criticism of jazz is that it is nothing but rhythm; that if the drums were removed there would be nothing left."...
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tommersl
Mar 22, 2007 2:00 am
The 2nd important thing in the 1926 article is comparing between the romantic and true schools of Jazz. It is actually something Roger Pryor Dodge predicted...
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smith325@...
smith325
Mar 23, 2007 12:16 am
Does anyone know anything about the jazz musicians in the Everglades picnic sequence in Citizen Kane? Thanks,Bruce Smith ...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Mar 23, 2007 12:32 pm
Tony Standish wrote: "Anyone out there got any material on Guy Kelly?" Here, cobbled together from Chilton, Charters, and the New Grove is what I've been able...
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david
drobertson53
Mar 23, 2007 6:22 pm
I seem to remember that a biography of Marion Harris has been published, but a search of World Cat and other bibliographic data sites did not turn it up. Does...
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danvanlandingham
danvanlandin...
Mar 23, 2007 7:15 pm
Can anyone out there shed some more light on bandleader Arnold Frank? Back around 1965 or '66 I had his OKeh recording of "Black Maria" which dated from around...
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Tony Standish
standish_au
Mar 26, 2007 6:21 am
Thanks, Robert, for the Guy Kelly details. There is only one trumpet solo on the Half-Pint Jaxon tracks. It's on 'Spank it". The CD lists "probably"; Bob...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Mar 26, 2007 6:06 pm
Tony, all, A little more information on Guy Kelly: There's a photo of him in the Rose/Souchon New Orleans Jazz Family album. There is also quite an extensive...
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tommersl
Mar 26, 2007 8:20 pm
I thought it would be nice to share this finding: ...
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danvanlandingham
danvanlandin...
Mar 27, 2007 7:12 am
Can anyone out there give me some information on bandleader Arnold Frank who led his "Roger's Cafe Orchestra"?I had his "Black Maria" on an OKeh 80 rpm...
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drjazztb
Mar 27, 2007 2:38 pm
Who's the clarinet player on the Miff Mole's Molar record of "After You've Gone", the 1929 version? His technique is too good to be Tesch, not good enough to...
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Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ
Mar 27, 2007 2:46 pm
... From: "danvanlandingham" <danvanlandingham@...> To: <RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:39 AM Subject: [RedHotJazz] Arnold...
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Chris
chrisforliberty
Mar 27, 2007 4:48 pm
I signed up yesterday. I've been researching the Roaring 20's as part of concept development on a possible documentary or feature. I've worked in television...
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Albert Haim
alberthaim
Mar 27, 2007 5:51 pm
According to Rust's jazz disco, it is Jimmy Dorsey, and he sounds like Jimmy Dorsey to me. Fud sounded more like Pee Wee. Albert...
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Albert Haim
alberthaim
Mar 27, 2007 5:55 pm
"Black Maria" and its reverse, the beautiful tune "Rain", are available right here, in the redhot jazz website. http://redhotjazz.com/frank.html Swanny...
