I just received the following news from Mike Meddings -- some great reading and information is here. Marco Romano The website has been updated with the...
I don't know the actual status of the audio files of the RHJ site, but in the past I never had problems because I downloaded the files before listening. There...
Here is a January 1926 recording of Static Strut with Paul Specht's Orchestra. Cannot find any information re this recording on the RHJA or who is playing, and...
Hello, I'm a new member here and I'm wondering what I might be doing wrong. When I click on any of the tunes on the website the Real player says"Could not...
Hello all, I'm pleased to announce the fruition of a project that I've been deeply involved with for about 6 months now. A film restoration company has found...
Sorry for the temporary breakdown of the Red Hot Jazz site. Here is a very interesting version of a different kind of breakdown - St Phillip St Breakdown with...
I have regularly used the tracks in redhotjazz.com as smples for my own jazz band-mostly on King Oliver and Louis Armstrong using Real\Player. A day or so ago...
Certainly the lyrics to "Lily of the Valley" as sung by Joe Watkins with the George Lewis band bear no relation to the words penned by Charles w Fry in 1881. A...
Victor 38596 "Everybody don´t know" with Rev. F.W. McGee was recorded 15 April 1930. According to the liner notes of the Document BDCD-6032 the cornet (or...
I've been enjoying Volume 1 (1922-1928) which seems well and truly "complete";, with all the alternative takes. I've not heard Volume 2 (1929-1934), but I...
Hello, I've got a record of Benny Goodman playing "Old Fashioned Love". It's a small combo and I think it was with Charlie Christan (elec guitar) Teddy Wilson...
Hello. I just checked out Mike Meddings website and it has been updated with the following 5 articles of great historical interest: Howard Rye sends an...
Scott, I am sorry to bring this up. For the last few days, the red hot jazz archive has not functioned correctly. The pages with text can be opened, but the...
That business about the Wooden Joe AMs- me too! Hot, rough and bluesy, the Wooden Joe sound was just as my (then young) mind imagined Bolden would sound like....
Hello Olivier. I knew I had the correct information from Peter Hanley about King Oliver's date of death. King Oliver was found dead in bed in his room at the...
Bunk is shown as aged 29 in the 1910 Census when he and his mother were living with his sister (Margaret Willis) and her family. Margaret was shown as aged...
Dear Olivier King Oliver died of a cerebral haemorrhage on Friday, 8th April, 1938. He was buried 12th April in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York. The...
Hope the films as good as the correspondance!! 'Slow Drag' Pavageau was born in 1888, so perhaps he was as likely to remember what Bolden sounded like as...
As far back as I can rermember, we've wondered what Bolden sounded like - Russell, Smith, Ramsey, Charters, Bull, Hardie, me, Colyer, Holden, Reddihough,. and...
... "Wynton Marsalis Producing Buddy Bolden Film" New Orleans cornetist Charles "Buddy" Bolden will be portrayed by actor Anthony Mackie (She Hate Me, Million...
As this list has discussed Valaida at length in the recent past there may be others here who will like to know that at last a biography worthy of the name has...
