Hi-My name is Linda- i am new to the group and i just uploaded 3 pictures to the "photos" section of me and the "chicagoans" to share with the group--One...
One of the greatest New Orleans trumpet players was bluesman Chris Kelly- He is one of the rarest jazzmen too because he made no recordings and no one has even...
Welcome Linda
Yes I see Bill behind you, leg across knee as ever. I also see you on his
knee. What date would that have been ? He looks pretty old by then. A...
Checking out Clarence Willams' Jug Band I came across this, to my ears, little era. As composers of "Sitting On Top Of The World" Henderson/Young/Lewis are...
The trumpeter Chris Kelly, of course, never recorded but both Kid Howard and Dede Pierce recorded versions of Careless Love where they give us some idea of how...
... ears, little era. ... are credited. But to my ears Clarence Willams' Jug Band is playing that famous Armenter Chatmon / Walter Jacobs Vinson composition...
You're right regarding the melody, but where are Henderson,Young and Lewis credited? On the label of the Clarence Williams recording? Best regards, Michael...
What did clarinetist Ernest Elliott out of the studios? I know these events: -born as Ernest Smith on March 1893 (where?) -1919 begins playing in Detroit with...
... The correct title of the Henderson tune is "I'm sitting on top of the world"; Young and Lewis are the lyricists. So 2 different tunes... --Sheik...
David W. Littlefield
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Jul 1, 2005 1:22 pm
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... Boonville, MO, 23 February 1893 according to SSDI. (Most sources have Booneville but Grove is right that it is Boonville.) ... Grove says died New York...
A search at http://www.redhotjazz.com/search/ for 'Sitting On Top Of The World' by Lewis & Young resulted with a few 1925 recordings. I think it predates any...
Michael Rader wrote: You're right regarding the melody, but where are Henderson,Young and Lewis credited? On the label of the Clarence Williams recording? See...
... The composer credits for matrix 404435 on OKeh 8826 are to Jacobs-Carter, so this is all a fuss about nothing. All that has happened is that some copyright...
Howard, I've changed the composer's credit on http://www.redhotjazz.com/cwjugband.html Thanks, Scott Alexander The Red Hot Jazz Archive www.redhotjazz.com...
... on his ... A great ... any Bill ... different.The ... to be ... The pic of me singing with the Monrovia Jazz band with Wild Bill and the picture of me on...
I know the picture was taken in Los Angeles in the 1920's because Witzel was an LA photographer- I think this is an unpublished pic of Larry Shields because i...
Dave John RT was credited with absolute pitch, but if you want to know his secret, then go to: http://www.jazzoracle.com/team/index.asp and scroll half way...
Thanks Howard for the correct info and thanks to Scott for the correction. I don't think "Classics" will reprint their linernotes (grin). Cheers Wouter M....
Michael
Yes, I thought you'd know. Thanks. JRT covers pitch on www.jazzrescue.com
under FAQs.
What this reveals is that it is not an exact science and this...
Hi Linda
Thanks again for the pics. What have you and Hamp been reading on the table
before you ?
The Shields is fascinating, because, I can find no ref....
... Richard Sudhalter in his Grove entry on Shields says he was a non-reader, which answers both questions. Howard Rye, 20 Coppermill Lane, London, England,...
Thanks Howard. Do you have any info. on his tenor because I can find no
refs. to it at all ? Also do you have any idea with what sort of bands he
would have...
... Sudhalter's article makes no mention of him playing anything other than clarinet, and fudges what his actual musical activities on the Coast were. ...
... Three more film appearances are listed in The Fabulous Fives, 1936 shorts called "It's On the Record" and "Jazz and Sand" (in which the ODJB plays Clarinet...
I've just finished checking H.O. Bruun's "The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band" (publ. 1961), and nowhere does it mention that Larry Shields played...
As long as we are speculating - Shields would have only played clarinet on the ODJB big band sides. The ODJB was a sort of band-within-a-band - similar to...
I just uploaded a picture of Larry Shields tombstone from a cemetery in New Orleans where i took the picture when i was on a vacation there- Shields died in...
I'm curious about when Lonnie Johnson first appeared on someones record either as a leader or sideman. I Woke Up Cold In Hand / Charles Creath's Jazz O Maniacs...
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