And what wonderful music it is! There are times when I wish that Nat didn't have such golden pipes and had stuck with playing jazz piano.Now that's supremely...
My stage name is Rick Jolley. I play "dixieland" banjo (for over 50 years) and I love Trad Jazz. I have been lurking on the list for a while and it's pretty...
In Lee Collins' (auto)biography "Didn't He Ramble" which was mentioned as a source for the information that Arnett Nelson came from near NO and had his first...
As far as I know Lee Collins is the only source for this personnel or for the existence of this musician. Does anyone know better? Lee says "I never heard of...
Trad. Jazz Radio has a brand new playlist for May. A very special one hour programme with clarinet ace Ian Wheeler is featured and has some very music...
Preston Jackson refers to him simply as Balls ('Trombone Man' p 193), at the start of a list of clarinettists specifically *not* from New Orleans. I seem to...
It's interesting that Jackson should remember him at all, since the Kings of Jazz sides have Roy Palmer rather than Jackson on trombone. Apparently a musician...
... Quite a lot, but it doesn't seem to add up to biography. Details of several associations are noted in the Document issues covering his work. On DOCD5590,...
A quick note on Jelly Roll:some of the 78 albums I was given at a garage sale just down the road from where I live,were on Bluebird from the late '30s.I know...
I guess it is for me to announce that my favorite musician I ever played with has died, Franz Jackson lived to the ripe age of 95. It was incredible to still...
Marybeth Hamilton, of Birkbeck College, and author of In Search of the Blues is to deliver a lecture on the Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress recordings at...
I too am reading this new book by Charters's. I am confused by page 88 and the reference to Emile Barnes, the sentence is ungrammatical and or just plain...
I am new to this and not sure of what the proctocol is I'm not a muscian but have been a jazz fan since the long ago days of high school. I grew up in Oakland...
... From: "Hec Hancock" <uop1943@...> To: <RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [RedHotJazz] Let me introduce...
Nat Cole's Trio also made excellent jazz sides with Lionel Hampton in 1940, especially Victor 26724 ("Jivin' With Jarvis" / "Blue") as The Hampton Rhythm...
Here's a bit more about Horace George, from Tom Lord's 'Clarence Williams': With his Jazz Band at the Grand Theatre, May 7, 1921 (Chicago Defender) An advert...
I had a 1946 RCA 78 set of the "Esquire All American Award Winners."Jivin' with Jarvis" was one of the 78s in that set.The set also had Ellington's "Rock-a-Bye...
Hec's words conjured up a memory or two - I spent many rewarding nights at the Club Hangover, in 1955 and 1957. I was always made very welcome by the owner,...
Don't know whether the Hangover (that Hangover, anyway . . .) still exists, but Lionel Reason has been based at Baton Rouge in recent years. Has anyone ever...
This obscure band recorded some Victors and at least four sides on the rare west coast Liberty label. Two of the Liberty couplings were "Moanin' Low" and "It's...
Just back from the jazz and news starved shores of Bouvet to find Humph dead. Bestrode the British scene like a colossus. He was always there. As musician,...
Tony. As I read, you got to N.O. in 1957 then ? Many moons and I expect you published but a drop before my time. Any chance of a glimpse at the treasure you...
'Old Gods almost dead, malign, Starving for unpaid dues' -- to quote Tony and Graves. Just found a wonderful Standish evocation of old N.O. in 'Just Jazz -3'...
Stacks of photos and jottings have accumulated, apart from the Jazz Journal stuff (1959-1963). Am busily collating and printing and wondering what to do with...
Hello all, I received notification of the following items, which includes details and adverts for several previously unknown Jelly Roll Morton engagements....
