Is there a difference between criticism and opinion? The most rewarding criticism is usually that where the critic shares his enthusiasm for something and...
Starting Saturday, May 7th, 1927 and finishing eight days later on Saturday, May 14th, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven recorded eleven magnificent jazz...
How do you folks define "swing" in jazz? I interpret it to mean basically making people, including musicians, move rhythmically. I define it this way because...
' Born in Cuba, Mario Bauza came to New York as a boy ---learned to play trumpet by copying the recordings of Phil Napoleon and Red Nichols. By 1931 he was...
Hello. There's some red hot jazz playing in the background of this commercial. To me, it sounds like Fletcher Henderson. Has anyone else heard this TV...
I'm right now in the middle of The Real Jazz/Hugues Panassie, it is written "copyright 1942" but the preface doesn't give the years he worked on these...
I have recently been bitten by the jazz bug and find it difficult to find to purchase jazz music from the past here in Memphis TN. Where are locations that you...
Please kind group members, be sure to send your messages to RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com (not to me!;-) Patrice ... From: "charlton_nd" <info@...> To:...
Poor old Panassie. He was a pioneeer, an enthusiast, a doer. He wrote books, organized sessions, contributed to magazines, made mistakes. Same for Blesh,...
On April 1, 2007 the last of Louis Armstrong's great drummers, Danny Barcelona, died at the age of 77. Here is the article where I read the sad news: ...
Hi I've been much enjoying some great brass bass work by Vernon Page with the Bennie Moten band. Not having any reference works to hand can anyone enlighten me...
Where can I find information on when and where jazz concerts may be playing. I would be more interested in finding out more about contemporary players on the...
Scott, I have had this problem for several days. I can connect to the text pages of the red hot jazz website, but not to the audio files. Other people in the...
I must sadly report the death on 18 April in Berlin of the great German New Orleans clarinettist and altoist Peter Müller at the age of 60. He was founder of...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070428/news_lz1n28pubeye.html PUBLIC EYE Ed 'Teddy Badly' Bradley gets procession at jazz fest April 28, 2007 CBS...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070427/news_1m27barcelon.html OBITUARY Danny Barcelona; drummer in Louis Armstrong's band; 77 ASSOCIATED PRESS April...
If the man who, a few months ago, declared on this list that he would hitch-hike from Inverness to hear Wally Fawkes sets off now he might just make it in time...
Hi All, Can anyone tell me who that hot alto sax soloist is on those Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra Vocalions of 1923-24? He sure reminds me of...
I'm forwarding this from the Dixieland Jazz Mailing List so if anyone can help Phil, please e-mail him directly at: pcrums pcrums@... OKOM stands for Our...
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Art Hodes' and Chadwick Hansen's "Selections from the Gutter", which is basically a collection of articles from the "Jazz Record" includes an item "The King's...
Last night BBC Radio Three broadcast an hour long programme on Bessie Smith as part of their Jazz Library series, the avowed intention of which is to offer...
Oh dear, Actually it was "Olga" that I meant as being on the "Gift from the President" - an alternate of "Edna" does not exist. The "King Jazz" Oliver Vol. 6...
While I was expecting Frog to release a Richard M. Jones CD - very welcome - I was rather surprised to see that they (Paul Swinton) have also released two new...
