It's a little late to add this, but the collection Swing That Music! has After You've Gone clocking in at 3:04. Michael Ullman Michael Ullman 136 Woodward St. ...
Hi Gang. How did key pop tunes come into the standard Dixieland repertoire? Who introduced 'em, or made 'em popular enough so that dixielanders adopted 'em? ...
David W. Littlefield
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on 5/9/07 20:31, David W. Littlefield at dwlit@... wrote: It's a reasonable assumption that "Memories of you", for example, came in via the Benny...
Hi Howard. That's the kind of thing I want to determine for as many tunes as I can. I assume it depends on what musicians were listening to, what grabbed 'em,...
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Hello, I am quite new to the Red Hot Jazz Forum, but I think it is a great resource. I was hoping that someone out there might be able to turn me on to some...
The music surely always drew on a fairly wide repertoire? The 1942 Bunk Johnson Jazz Information session has him playing some, by then, quite archaic songs...
The very earliest jazz recordings included many songs from the popular repertoire - one need only think of the ODJB's "Indiana" and "Darktown Strutters' Ball",...
Hello- I am interested in hot dance/jazz of the 1920s. I produce a radio show called "Jimmiejazz" on Thursdays, 1-3 Eastern Time, www.wool.fm . Some of my...
Django and QHCF were totally unique but not exactly 'hot' and, despite some desultory attempts to imitate, there is nothing like them in the canon of our...
And all the combos issued forme the Duke Ellington band (lead by C. Williams, B. BIgard, J. Hodges, or R. Stewart) The must. OD le 6/09/07 18:12, David Brown...
If you like swing violin playing, there were recordings by Eddie South and Stuff Smith. A nice review of the former's early career is to be found on the...
... Bill Thieme ... popular repertoire - one need only think of the ODJB's "Indiana" and "Darktown Strutters' Ball", long thought to have been the first jazz...
Hello folks according to you who played on the cornet in the ida Cox's "Coffin blues" recording ? thanks, best regards to all of you` OD ... Michael Rader...
There aren't many places where the trumpet player breaks through, but based on the times this happens, I'd put my money on him being Tommy Ladnier. However,...
Hi...since I switched to a Mac a few months ago I can't get RHJA's Real Audio to play...it says some necessary components are needed (but doesn't say which)...
I switched about a week ago from a Powermac G4 to a Mac Pro. RealAudio from RedHotJazz worked fine before, but I get the same error messages, even though I am...
Bob I have just heard 'Coffin Blues' on RHJ with the limitations that source suggests. I do not own this side nor its sessionmate 'Rambling Blues'. Maybe ...
The term 'Swing' is usually reserved for music of the 'Swing Era', not possible to define exactly but certainly post 1930. 'Hot' is usually used in discussion...
... It is included in the non-Oliver section of Laurie Wright's book, probably because the claim had been repeated on a then recent LP sleeve. His comments,...
on 10/9/07 10:39, Patrice Champarou at patrice.champarou@... wrote: My brother often insists that there was no jazz tradition among the Gypsy community...
... I do not remember the tune, but I didn't say Django invented everything from scratch either, there was definitely something in the air in popular bands of...
Did it really need reviving? I used to trade records with a (then) elderly North American collector who was interested in Django style music and was amazed to...
Speaking of Bob Shoffner: By chance I was reading "The Essential Jazz Records Vol.1" by Max Harrison, Charles Fox and Eric Thacker yesterday. The entry for a...
... Benford, who be it noted was not there, made this claim to Laurie Wright in about 1982 [Storyville 100, p.125]. "At the mention of Dolly Jones we asked...
No doubt the whole of our original enquirer's time is now taken up with acquiring and listening to CDs of all of the small band swing recommended to him in the...