CDBaby.com has quite a few new jug band recordings: http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=jug&submit=search There are regional festivals all over the US (also a...
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David W. Littlefield
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Oct 7, 2007 10:47 pm
There's an article in a recent Smithsonian Magazine I haven't had a chance to read. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/object-washboard.html Washboards...
On the Isle of Arran, in Scotland, you can hear an informal jug band amalgam each Tuesday in the Catacol Bay Hotel. From this loose group a tight band is...
I agree with you that many contemporary recordings featuring a washboard are very gimmicky. However, going back to the classic recordings from the 20's, two...
I forgot to mention the Yazoo Records series - the film clip comes from a DVD "Things Ain't Like They Used To Be" and they also have a lot of other early jug...
Hi, Anyone know if the following have been made available, other than the reissues noted below? Joe Venuti's Orchestra, "The Girlfriend Of The Whirling...
I had a Capitol 78 set of Freddie Slack and his Eight Beats By Four and those sides were on the album.My late friend Al Hendrickson once told me about working...
I never met Artie Shaw,but I did meet his guitarist Al Henderickson who,sadly,passed away on 19 July of this year.Al was on all of those "Gramercy Five" which...
The Excerpt from here http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/locspeech1.html : "Did they used to call you sissy? Er, well, no, they didn't . . . they didn't call me...
F 2541 Who's Sorry Now / Jealous F 2543 At the Jazz Band Ball / If I Had You The above are UK Parlophone catalogue numbers. 'Tommy Rogers Ballroom Dance ...
A goos point, but... Clarence Williams lived in N..O. from age 12. Fess Manetta, Alton Purnell, Lester Santiago, Fats Domino, Champion Jack Dupree, Lionel...
They were issued in about 1954/5. There are two more couplings: F2546 Yes, Sir, That's My Baby/Carolina In The Morning F2550 Sentimental Journey/Any Old Rag ...
... Jack ... Roy ... of the ... Desdume!! ... when ... decided ... New ... ones. ... Henderson, ... Cow ... Fats Domino and Champion Jack? What about Prof....
I believe it's pronounced "Ree Ser".Here in the pacific northwest there is a food retailer whose catch phrase is "yes sir,reser".I believe they are based in...
Many thanks as ever Howard. Did I really doubt that even such fringe esoterica was beyond your power ? Actually, the two sides I have heard 'Jazz Band Ball'...
Hi Dave, if the question was how to pronounce Harry Reser the answer is easy. Since he was of german origin the pronounciation would be : rayser. I hope that ...
Clarrie Henley's article on Gold in Grove doesn't have any bibliography that might clarify this. I assume therefore that he is not the subject of one of Tony...
Hello everybody, I'm not able to listen to these files on the section of Paul Whiteman's radio recordings: Intro to the program (GM-Buick Division) (feb 12,...
Hello everybody I wish to know who are the jazz musicians playing drum, clarient and trombone in the Hellzapopin Movie. (1941) Thanks OD Hello everybody, I'm...
Olivier, If you are referring to the Slim and Slam clip available in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlQ-CxoxQnM then the musicians are Slim Gaillard - piano,...
My thanks to Nick for the following matrix nos. Who's Sorry Now - CE 15118-3A Jealous - CE 15119-3A At The Jazz Band Ball - CE 15120-1A If I Had You - CE...
I believe there are plenty in off-topic areas of jazz - Anthony Braxton and them cats. It was once widely believed (well by Brian Rust anyway) that Johnny...
Earlier than we thought then. Precise dates would need the files of course but these date out to somewhere around August 1954. There's a gap in Humphrey...
Here, we see James Carter playing jazz on the sopranino sax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MklLQdBb6PU Cheers, Andrew Homzy, Montréal [Non-text portions of...
Thanks Howard. Oh yes, the enigmatic clarinet on the 'Zulu's Ball' session which never will be solved. Thanks Andrew, there are a couple more sopranino samples...
Hello all! This is my first post on the RHJ group, though I've been a silent observer for about a year now. My question pertains to the sides mentioned in the ...
