Just listening my sole Arnett, a 1978 Magpie LP. This is a collection of blues accompaniments. Only ever two sides under his name. Also on the Jimmy Wades. A...
Here is the New Orleans Quartet playing a hilarious and excellent version of Hiawatha Rag. Great NO drumming by John Petters and bass playing by Annie ...
That's really a plenty of swing, beat, power and energy ! Thank you for sharing such a great stuff. Marco Levi To those of you who wish that there were more...
To those of you who wish that there were more drum solo recordings by Baby Dodds I submit the following YouTube clip from 2009 with the British drummer Colin ...
Ahh, but Johnny did come back for the revival - as Cy Laurie! Never quite recaprured his old magic, though I always thought it was St Cyr talking... Tony ...
I found a 115-page pdf on Jazz in Europe, which includes a substantial section on the Georgians. It's a section of a book, the title of which is not listed on...
Rob, That's a great photo of Ben Pickering and Eddie Bave in the files section. If you notice, the top of the signboard lists Max van Gelder as the director...
Found the link. As I mentioned, the pdf is in Dutch; so, if any Dutch member wants to take the time to translate it, even if it's only a little at a time,...
Following the info on the latest Off The Record/Archeophone, I'd like to draw your attention to three new CDs on the Frog label. They are: Frog Spawn - the...
Rob, I posted a reply to your last message, but it seemed to come through on the site as my orginal Die Weintraubs message. Anyway, here's what I wanted to...
Hi, folks I was listening to the superb internet radio -Weimar Rundfunk - on Live365 and came across this track "die weintraub syncopators - ob du glucklich ...
Absolutely brilliant stuff. I remember hearing about these German groups back in the days of the Weimar Republic, before Hitler took over. My great-uncle was...
Off The Record (distributed by Archeophone Records) has released a new 2 CD set called "Cabaret Echoes: New Orleans Jazzers at Work 1918-1927". Remastered by...
As you might know, a group of us is revisting the Clarence Williams discography. In a batch of additional information on Laurie Wright's "King" Oliver book,...
I've just obtained a copy of Tom Morgan's book Historic Photographs of New Orleans Jazz. It's a largely unremarkable and disappointing book, possibly aimed at...
Gama Gilbert was a New York Times Jazz writer. He had a fine article in 1939 on the New Orleans Jazz and he died in 1940 at the age of 34. I was wondering if a...
Does anyone know what became of singer/ trumpet-player Thomas Jefferson? The latest mention I can find is that he was playing on Bourbon Street in 1978. ...
I was just informed that CJRT-FM will over the next few years broadcast encore presentations of Jeff Healey's "My Kind of Jazz" programmes. He began the show...
I didn't see updates for a long time, it is my favorite site on music I've spent hours reading fascinating articles not to be found elsewhere. Tommer...
I'm looking for solos by the above. I know the one Bessie session. Can any Ellington specialist point me at any solos during his Ellington years 1944-49 ? Or...
Both Katie Crippen sessions for Black Swan (February or March 1921 & June 1921) are listed as by Katie Crippen accompanied by Henderson's Novelty Orchestra. ...
Today, 10 May 2010, there is a report on BBC Breakfast about the death of Lena Horne. Typically, the BBC shows a fragment of this 1940 Fats Waller soundie and...
This is the title of a study of early jazz by a Swiss researcher named Arnold Bopp. It was apparently issued in a series of open reel tapes. Anyone care to...
If anyone is interested in pre-war European Jazz bands, I have posted some photos on my website from the pile of stuff left to me by my uncle Ben Pickering who...
The Friars Society Orchestra (later known as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings) recorded eight sides for Gennett in Richmond on Aug 29 and 30, 1922. Who was the...
"Dancing Blues" by Clifford's Louisville Jug Band was reissued on a Herwin LP with an abrupt change in tempo and sound early in the record, probably due to a...
Having just acquired a sampling of Paul Banks, early jazz pianist of Kansas City, I found some nice details online, including an interview etc. in Jazz Journal...
I recently posted some animations of plates from the book Modern Dancing (1914) by Irene and Vernon Castle which show Europe's Society Orchestra playing in the...
