Albert, Thank you for supplying the info about Bix's reading ability. But also please note that I didn't write that Bix couldn't read. Somehow I recall reading...
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Tommer wrote, "I think that if everyone were color blind, Bix wouldn't get so much attention as he gets. In fact, I believe that because there were two schools...
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I am not confused. No matter how much back-pedaling you do, nothing is going to change. Your assertions were crystal clear: "I think that if everyone were...
I guess I'm fortunate in the fact that I had a) a father who was a musician with a pretty decent collection of jazz 78s, and b) an interest in the history of...
Dear All, I am trying to find information on Helen Rowland, vocalist with the Ben Selvin Orch. in the early 30s. Helen had a wonderful voice but by the...
Hi. I'm interested in getting the sheet music for a Sammy Price tune--Harlem Holler (I think that's the title). Any ideas? Thanks. Teresa A. McMahill,...
Pardon the list-owner's reminder, but... Could you please think of editing your posts so as to remove all unnecessary quotes - which in many cases means ALL...
The later Sam Wooding sessions from Barcelona are not certain examples of Ladnier's playing, but he was definitely on the 1925 sides recorded in Berlin. Later...
I would strongly suggest that we close this thread which started with - to put it diplomatically - an easily misundestood assertion on Gunter Schuller's racial...
Thanks for the list Chris and I will check them out. The only reaction I got from the local jazz list is that they think it's just so much a matter of opinion...
... From: silverleafjb <silverleafjb@...> To: RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 2:48:04 AM Subject: [RedHotJazz] Re: Tommy Ladnier...
Having just joined the list, I was intrigued to go to the beginning of this string and read the references to Mezz. By the mid forties when he made the King...
Yes, I'm aware that Orange Kellin was born and spent his early years in Sweden. But, he has spent most of his life in New Orleans playing New Orleans jazz....
... According to the booklet coming with a "Black Bands in Europe" CD on the EMI Jazztime label (unfortunately o.o.p.), Doc Cheatham positively identified...
I always think it better -- more constructive -- to exchange enthusiasms rather than animosities. Bests rather than worsts. I used the term 'the arrogance of...
Dave There was a brief moment when I and a few others thought that Ornette and Don would lead the way out of the impasse between tradition and moving sensibly...
If you have access to google you can very easily discover the information for yourself about Chris Tyle (and others) at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, ...
<<<Can you tell us more about Elmer, and why when you heard him, he was such a disaster?---Robert Greenwood>>> Many Saturday nights 1947-48, Sam and Jackie...
... a big fellow, and there was nothing wrong with his personality. But he had severe embouchure problems, often muffing as many notes as he hit them, and his...
Sorry to interfere again, but this time I think there is some kind of... emergency (yep! unsubscriptions and all...) I am afraid the latest contributions to...
Many thanks again Gilbert for your personal recollections. I have on the 1950 Souchon Georges with Talbert now. An old Storyville -- STCD 6019 -- dubbed from...
Thanks, Dave, for reminding us of the GTJ sides, and the excellent Herbert Otto's Party session which includes tracks by the George Lewis Band with Talbot, and...
This is decidely off-topic, but I thought it might interest you. Our local newspaper has a column where quotes from various sources are given. On the same day...
