Michael Interesting. Toad precludes much serious thought at the moment. N.O.music was functional. Dances, funerals, parades. Musicians played for the...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Jun 29, 2005 10:12 am
Dave is absolutely right. When Bunk and the band first played at the Stuyvesant Casino in New York in 1945 they thought that no-one liked them because no-one...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jun 29, 2005 10:16 am
... Eight titles recorded for Decca 3 July 1936 (two trumpets, trombone, clarinet, alto sax, piano, guitar accompanying Hull's gospel vocals) Only four issued...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Jun 29, 2005 10:46 am
I have just phoned Red Lick and that particular Document CD is now out of the catalogue. Thanks, anyway, Howard. On the subject of swing influences on NO...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jun 29, 2005 11:29 am
on 29/6/05 11:45, robertgreenwood_54uk at robertgreenwood_54uk@... ... Pity. I dare say they will reinstate it eventually, not least because one of the...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Jun 29, 2005 12:10 pm
Well, what I asked was: Is ANYBODY familiar with this superb session? It's a sort of roundabout way of drawing attention to it. Thanks for giving out the CD...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Jun 29, 2005 12:51 pm
It is still listed on Document's web site at the (bargain) price of 8 pounds. If there's a run and they do sell out, they owe Howard a commission. The...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Jun 29, 2005 2:32 pm
I have just this minute got off the telephone to Document up in Newton Stewart. Apart from the one I have just ordered from them, they still have about a dozen...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
Jun 29, 2005 3:37 pm
Well done Michael.
The Barnes Bocage is relevant and extremely interesting because although
1954 it maybe allows a glimpse of pre-revival N.O. or even the...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Jun 29, 2005 4:05 pm
I don't know about Homer Eugene's trombone playing being "unastounding and derivative." He certainly plays some very nice trombone on the recordings by Pete...
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sahfen
Jun 29, 2005 5:09 pm
Does anyone has some precise biographical information about Robert Crowder (ts) and Oliver Bibbs (ds)? Nicola...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
Jun 29, 2005 5:57 pm
Rob
Two threads emerge I think. The first, N.O. revival trombone style. I have
listened again to Homer on both the Riverside and the Mono. Although it is...
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Mordechai Litzman
folke613
Jun 29, 2005 6:06 pm
I feel flattered that an old mouldy fig could stir up a hornet's nest with my question on the style of the Bunk-Lewis American Music recordings. After reading...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jun 29, 2005 6:54 pm
... Robert Henry Crowder is in Who's Who of jazz, Grove (based on WWJ) and Evensmo's History of Jazz Tenor Saxophone, but no one seems to know more than born...
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sjhbix1
Jun 29, 2005 7:45 pm
I'd like to thank everyone for the information on the Quinn/Wiggs record. I had forgotten about the Fat Cat lp issue. Steve Hester...
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sahfen
Jun 29, 2005 8:09 pm
The Robert Crowder I mean is a tenor saxophonist that was active in Chicago during the 30s and the 40s. About him I've only found that he played with Punch...
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Prof_Hi_Jinx
prof_hi_jinx@...
Jun 30, 2005 12:43 am
I would have thought his main claim to fame is as co-composer (with Eckstine and Hines) of Stormy Monday Blues, popularized by T-Bone Walker and many others,...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
Jun 30, 2005 2:18 am
Mordechai
Right. 'Nobody had a more beautiful tone than Bunk'. Not only tone. He was
an extremely inventive and often surprising musician and his phrasing and...
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Prof_Hi_Jinx
prof_hi_jinx@...
Jun 30, 2005 5:01 am
I have a note (which I think came from a Bob Koester release, maybe when he recorded Crowder with someone - Rush, Sykes or Lockwood?) that Crowder was born...
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Stephen J Hester
sjhbix1
Jun 30, 2005 6:08 am
Thank you everyone for the info on this session. Steve Hester ... From: Howard Rye To: RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:17 PM ...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jun 30, 2005 7:33 am
... In Milwaukee early 30s. with François Mosely's Lousianians in 1932 and again after playing with Miller. with Horace Henderson, July 1937 recorded with...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jun 30, 2005 7:58 am
... The session with Rush is the Blues Today project for Vanguard. Sam Charters's notes have nothing to say about Crowder. Nor is there anything in the notes...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Jun 30, 2005 9:23 am
Well, neither Nelson nor Eugene (Homer, that is) were tailgate players exactly, but, other than that, I hear little similarity in their playing. They both had...
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sahfen
Jun 30, 2005 10:14 am
I'd like to thank everybody who helped me for the Robert Crowder's information. This confirm that this is a great forum, an important and international source...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
Jun 30, 2005 12:11 pm
Rob
We agree on the existence of a non-tailgate N.O.trb. style post-revival and
are still left with it's origins. I suggest it was the response of
trombonists...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jun 30, 2005 3:03 pm
... Oliver Bibbs is a disaster area. I don't even feel confident that Bibbs is his name and not a discographical error. He is quoted thus for his only issued...
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Gerard J. Fitzpatrick
aclassicjazzfan
Jun 30, 2005 5:06 pm
updated as of 6/28/05 Gerard...
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Prof_Hi_Jinx
prof_hi_jinx@...
Jul 1, 2005 12:06 am
The Tennessee SSN makes sense if he was on tour there (for bizarre, how about Henry Stuckey's SSN being issued in Nebraska?).
There is some credence to a...
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Prof_Hi_Jinx
prof_hi_jinx@...
Jul 1, 2005 3:12 am
If Bibbs is his name, then perhaps he was the "Common Laborer" who was renting at 547 34th Street, Chicago in 1930, aged 26, born in Mississippi.
As for...
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sahfen
Jul 1, 2005 6:05 am
This is what I've found about Sir Oliver Bibbs in these days. As says Howard in February 1930 he accompanied Billie & Mary Mack in the travelling show...
