Somehow I thought the mid thirties was correct but then hedged a bit because my parents were dating and married in 1946. Just goes to show that good music...
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Dan Van Landingham
danvanlandin...
Aug 21, 2007 3:30 am
I used to listen to WWL from here on the southern coast of Oregon":North Bend,Oregon.I haven't picked up WWL since the mid 1970s-1974 to be exact.I guess the...
4583
Dan Van Landingham
danvanlandin...
Aug 21, 2007 3:48 am
Can anyone tell me more about the British "trad jazz" scene?I vaguely remember some of the sides such as that 1959 tune "Petite Fleur";as I recall,the...
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Dan Van Landingham
danvanlandin...
Aug 21, 2007 6:27 am
Welcome to the club.I have been a record collector for close to fifty years.There were two rather good books I owned about twenty five years ago:one was by on...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Aug 21, 2007 1:56 pm
'Trad', in its various forms and in relation to the 'Revival' generally, was discussed here earlier this year. Search with 'Bill Russell'. [Non-text portions...
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Stuart MacBeth
stuartmacbeth
Aug 21, 2007 5:23 pm
Dear Dan The volume most relevant to subscribers to Red Hot Jazz is Jim Godbolt's excellent Jazz in Britain 1919-1950 published by The Northway Press. A second...
4587
tommersl
Aug 22, 2007 1:14 am
... I think the one person who is recognized as being a real jazz giant by the largest number of people is Louis Armstrong. ... Many of the fans of Jazz don't...
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Dan Van Landingham
danvanlandin...
Aug 22, 2007 4:37 am
Thank you for the information.It seems to me I had the album by Kenny Ball which included the 1962 hit "Midnight in Moscow".As far as British bands go,I'd like...
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lmme2010
lmme2001
Aug 22, 2007 7:12 am
Hello Tommer , i am one of those fan , knewing Louis only to name Louis and the good book ; in my way , Louis Amstrong is the totale image of Blues when Franck...
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Robert Smith
jayaressno
Aug 22, 2007 10:27 am
Dear Dan, My lifelong interest in jazz began with the jazz revival when the George Webb Dixielanders gave a concert in Birmingham, England in 1947. The trumpet...
4591
tommersl
Aug 22, 2007 10:36 am
... good book ; in my way , Louis ... jazz phenomene ; ... described , what i feel ; blues ... be " pure "- music-event for ... Blues is Black in my mind ; ...
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David W. Littlefield
dwlit@...
Aug 22, 2007 2:31 pm
... Hi June. This is an interesting and fun topic. What I haven't seen (at least explicitly) in the discussion thus far are: 1. Blues is a fundamental *part*...
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Dan Van Landingham
danvanlandin...
Aug 22, 2007 7:00 pm
Thank you for all the information.Lonnie Donegan I do remember because back in the early sixties,he had a hit with a record called "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose...
4594
tc
tnrc75
Aug 23, 2007 7:29 am
I do happen to remember in Marty Scorsese's series on jazz four or five years ago that one of the ten (?) episodes was on skiffle, I believe, certainly on some...
4595
tc
tnrc75
Aug 23, 2007 7:29 am
Wow, this is a question I think about so often when I attempt to categorize my music by style on iTunes. Generally, I say that Bessie Smith was blues; it...
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judy ross
oshalomire
Aug 23, 2007 7:32 am
Wow! I am going to keep a copy of your post with my 78's so I can make notes about them. I do not buy anything, however, that is advertised as antique or...
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Marilyn Bueckert
desertdreamerca
Aug 23, 2007 3:15 pm
Judy, I am so glad you mention thrift shops for finding old records. I work in one and we often let our records go for 25 cents each. I even remember seeing...
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Midgie
glasser0000
Aug 23, 2007 8:23 pm
To me it is ultra simple....lol The moaning, groaning whining divas of the twenties (Bessie Smith to Victoria Spivey to Rosa Henderson)) and their male...
4599
tommersl
Aug 24, 2007 4:12 pm
... is a ... really much ... can be ... improvisations of ... Which Blind Willie? tommersl...
4600
jaykay_4444
Aug 24, 2007 6:24 pm
Categories aside (at least for the moment), I wonder how many of you, like myself, favor Bessie Smith singing what any purist would have to term "non-blues"...
4601
tommersl
Aug 24, 2007 7:11 pm
... Musically, one blues is much like ... Every Blues performed is very different from the other. I think the Romantic ear that is looking for drama, chord...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Aug 25, 2007 9:05 am
In this morning's edition of The London Times there is an obituary for the clarinettist Alan Cooper, who has died aged 76. Cooper was, in my opinion, the...
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Dan Van Landingham
danvanlandin...
Aug 26, 2007 4:23 am
judy ross <judyegr@...> wrote: Wow! I am going to keep a copy of your post with my 78's so I can make notes about them. I do not buy...
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Dan Van Landingham
danvanlandin...
Aug 26, 2007 7:15 am
I wish that I could get 78s for 25 cents.I haven't seen 78s that cheap since the early 1970s.There was this one secondhand store located in Coos Bay,Oregon-H&H...
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Mordechai Litzman
folke613
Aug 26, 2007 10:44 pm
... From: Mordechai Litzman <folke613@...> To: RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:31:03 AM Subject: Unable to access RHJA Dear...
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Albert Haim
alberthaim
Aug 28, 2007 4:20 pm
On Oct 18, 1929, the Paul Whiteman Orchestra recorded the classic tune by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton "After You've Gone". The arrangement was by William...
4607
Dave Weiner
djwein
Aug 28, 2007 4:38 pm
The truncated version on the Epic LP/CD set, THE BING CROSBY STORY, VOLUME 1 1928-32 (there never was a Volume 2), was first issued in 1968. I think it first...
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Albert Haim
alberthaim
Aug 28, 2007 11:51 pm
Thank you, Dave. I am surprised that there wasn't an earlier LP with Whiteman's "After You've Gone," a popular tune, a strong performance by the band. Your...
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Luis
Contijoch
Aug 29, 2007 2:00 pm
On "The Chronological Bing Crosby, Vol. 7 1929-1930, a Jonzo CD, this track is complete (3'09) Luis <On Oct 18, 1929, the Paul Whiteman Orchestra recorded the...
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malikfarrah
Aug 31, 2007 6:48 am
Hello! Wanted to let everyone know of a great event taking place in Chicago on September 16 and 17! The Chicago Sinfonietta, the nation's most diverse symphony...
