Members of RedHotJazz might be interested in seeing the summer issue of American Legacy magazine, a (US) journal of African-American history, which is a...
Taylor's book lists Metcalf (preceded by a question mark) for the Joe Sims session... ... Addington Major as a possible for the trumpet player on the Joe Sims...
Thank you for the information Howard and Albert. I was wishing someone can point me to a place I can directly buy it. Here is maybe a public call to Patrice...
So does his monthly updated "Ultimate Fats Waller Discography" (.pdf file Stephen Taylor sends via email). Best regards, Agustín ... Joe ... Sims ... pages. ...
Can anyone share any details about Alex Hyde and his New Yorker Orchestra? Rust lists them as recording extensively in Berlin in 1924- 5. I don't have the book...
I've never heard of Alex Hyde.Just who was he?The only "Alex" I've ever come across was Alex Hill who died of Tuberculosis in or around 1934. ikey100...
I just ordered 5 copies of this book from Amazon.com "The Guinness Jazz Companion" Peter Clayton; Paperback; $14.95 Basically a reader's guide to mainly red...
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Alex Hyde has an entry, by Dr. Rainer Lotz, in The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Born ?Hamburg, Germany 17 Feb 1898 Died Santa Monica, CA, 7 July 1956 Family...
Thank you for the information on Alex Hyde.I would like to know if I could get a large print copy of it as a stroke I had sometime between my fifty fith and...
Would suggest to first search the redhotjazz.com site before Google. Not less than some 27 recordings by Alex Hyde are available to listen to, all from Berlin...
(?) Metcalf on the Sims is straight from Rust. Addington is therefore a novel fabrication of the Waller JSP. Clarence --- if we believe Rust --- normally found...
The weekend edition (June 2-3, 2007) of The Wall Street Journal carries this very well-written article about the Bix and Tram seminal recording of "Singin' the...
Tom Nolan makes some very extravagant claims in his article about "Singin' The Blues". To imply that nothing of any consequence had happened in the jazz world...
You write, "Tom Nolan makes some very extravagant claims in his article about "Singin' The Blues". To imply that nothing of any consequence had happened in the...
... From Tom Lord's 'Clarence Williams': "Charlie Gaines, upon hearing this record... declares that he is not the cornetist, and suggests Addington Major."...
"Singin' The Blues" is indeed an important record (though I much prefer "I'm Coming Virginia" and "In A Mist"). An article in a major newspaper like the Wall...
"I'm Coming Virginia" is a number that never did much for me;The only version that comes to mind was a late '30s Bluebird by Artie Shaw.I agree that "Singing...
"Someday Sweetheart" was another recording that I neverespecially liked but I had a lovely version of it from late 1931 by Joe Venuti-Eddie Lang's All Star...
Singing The Blues was part of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's recording of Margie from ca. 1920. Fletcher made a tribute version in about 1931. Bix was...
John Many thanks. Do we have a date and source for the Gaines interview and are there further attributions by him in the book ? The problem is we have no...
... I tried to find a copy online of this photo, since I'm away from home and my reference materials. But I do remember some of the musicians: Willie Humphrey,...
Would Blesh's "Shining Trumpets" give you any input as Blesh used a number of photos in his book?Mine is in Lometa,Texas. ... I tried to find a copy online of...
... Since the author seems to be careful and selective in his writing, using double-quote precisely in place and etc, I wonder what the "White-Hot Jazz Ballad"...
Hello Chris Rudi Blesh in "Shining Trumpets" has a photo of Oliver's Band at Comiskey Park in 1919, with a banner in the background that looks as though it...
It's late at night here in Norway, and my concentration isn't at its peak at the moment. My abject apologies, therefore, to all of you who didn't want a...
From http://physics.fortlewis.edu/Astronomy/astronomy%20today/CHAISSON/AT303/HTML/AT30304.HTM As an object is heated the radiation it emits peaks at higher and...
Bob, thanks for the scan of the photo. I'm not about the identifications from Blesh's book. I think I recall the trombonist as George Filhe, not Dutrey, and I...
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