I just uploaded 2 pictures of Movie Stars connections with jazz bands- One is Buster Keaton playing a saxophone with Abe Lyman's Band and the other is Chico...
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Linda
jazzgrl20s
Jul 4, 2005 6:16 am
In the picture i uploaded of me and Lionel Hampton at his concert at UCLA somebody asked about what the picture was on the table with us- It is a picture...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
Jul 4, 2005 6:17 am
Howard's report on the 1954 Record Changer obit. is indeed sobering and
enlightening. I guess the reputation of ODJB would have been at its lowest
at that...
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sahfen
Jul 4, 2005 6:29 am
Buster Keaton's mother, Myra Keaton, maybe has been the first white woman who played a saxophone professionally in the jazz history. Around the end of 19th...
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sahfen
Jul 4, 2005 6:46 am
As says Mutt Carey page on redhotjazz.com, after Ory departure in 1925, he took over the band and played in Hollywood film studios. Did he appear on silent...
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Linda
jazzgrl20s
Jul 4, 2005 7:05 am
On April 7, 1984 i met with singer Baby Mack at her home and did a tape recorded interview of her recollections of a recording session of Feb. 23, 1926 she...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jul 4, 2005 8:02 am
... Won't Don't Blues from Creath's November session is normally regarded as Lonnie's first recording. No one has ever previously reported a violin on the...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jul 4, 2005 8:14 am
... The statement is particularly strange because there is no sign that Panassié had actually heard (or would have liked if he had though that's beyond proof)...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jul 4, 2005 8:17 am
... Meeker lists Carey for Legion Of the Condemned (William Wellman, 1928), and The Road To Run (Norton Parker, 1928), noted as Mutt Carey's Liberty ...
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ohmrjelly
Jul 4, 2005 8:17 am
This might be my imagination, or it could be that there is a simple explanation. I have long thought that I can hear an organ on the last two choruses of Billy...
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Linda
jazzgrl20s
Jul 4, 2005 8:22 am
When i visited and did a cassette tape recorded interview of singer Baby Mack on April 7, 1984 she told me she was a good friend of "Tin Can" Henry Allen and...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jul 4, 2005 8:29 am
... Sounds fascinating. Have you published this interview anywhere? Howard Rye, 20 Coppermill Lane, London, England, E17 7HB howard@... ...
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sahfen
Jul 4, 2005 9:45 am
Dear Linda, it's a very interesting thing!! I've always tried to find some info about Baby Mack, but I've never found nothing, but that record with Louis. Have...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Jul 4, 2005 9:57 am
Howard wrote: "[T]he contemporary recordings of Wilbur Sweatman…have been more thoroughly suppressed even than the ODJB's recordings ever were, not I guess ...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Jul 4, 2005 10:20 am
... If there was any supression of the ODJB, it can't have been very enduring, since there have been reissues available since I've been collecting (well over...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
Jul 4, 2005 11:59 am
Howard yes, I think Pannassie would have been comparing to a black band of
his imagination but definitely from N.O.
Sweatman is interesting and by no means...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Jul 4, 2005 12:45 pm
If you read carefully, it says the band played in film studios, rather than in films. Most likely in Floyd Levin's "Classic Jazz" I read recently that...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jul 4, 2005 12:54 pm
... I'm sure you're right about this. ... Well Sudhalter would dismiss him wouldn't he? This is hardly evidence of anything, any more than Panassié's view on...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jul 4, 2005 1:02 pm
... Please be clear I took up the suppression idea purely from the posting I was responding to, which in turn was responding to the rather strange lack of ...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Jul 4, 2005 1:40 pm
I'll give the Sweatmans another listen to see if I agree. The question would then be why he or his record company decided to put him in that setting. Why...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
Jul 4, 2005 1:53 pm
Howard, yes I think we agree that the music of pre. ODJB Sweatman is fine,
certainly expressive. What we call it, Jazz or Ragtime is not so
important. I do...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jul 4, 2005 2:04 pm
... I suspect this of being a rhetorical question. It certainly is in practice. I can think of several possible answers. Maybe for the same reason that between...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Jul 4, 2005 2:16 pm
I can also think of several possible answers, but the main question is whether his working band of the time was playing in a similar style to his own. ...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jul 4, 2005 2:26 pm
... There is a detailed study of Sweatman and his music in Tim Brooks, Lost Sounds, Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1890-1919 (University of...
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robertgreenwood_54uk
robertgreenw...
Jul 4, 2005 3:18 pm
Tim Brooks' Lost Sounds, referred to by Howard, sounds like fascinating and, indeed, essential reading, but is prohibitively expensive. According To Amazon UK,...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Jul 4, 2005 3:27 pm
Good news indeed, There are sample pages and the table of contents on Amazon.com and it looks well worth a purchase. Alas, the chapter on Sweatman isn't...
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David Brown
johnhaleysims
Jul 4, 2005 4:39 pm
I am indebted to my good friend Robert Greenwood, who does not have the
source to hand, for pointing out the one total error of judgement that
occurs in 'Lost...
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Linda
jazzgrl20s
Jul 4, 2005 7:22 pm
Hi- I just uploaded a pic of pianist Paul Mertz of the Jean Goldkette band and the Bix and his Rhythm Jugglers recording.I took the pic when my husband...
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chaz_2053@...
chaz_2053
Jul 4, 2005 7:59 pm
Jazz lovers, I just wanted to tell you that I have been listening at the "key hole" for a couple of months, and I cannot believe the knowledge that each of you...
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Linda
jazzgrl20s
Jul 4, 2005 8:12 pm
Years ago a musician at a jazz club loaned me a pic to make a negative of.He also identified all the musicians he knew in the band including Glenn Miller- The...
