The concert, organized by Dan Levinson and Dorothy Kellogg with Judy Kahn as stage manager, will take place according to the following details. Date: Monday,...
I am interested in finding out more about Frankie Newton. The material about him in reference books seems to repeat the same sorts of things-that he didn't...
Hello All, I have just joined the group and am learning a tremendous amount from reading the posts. Thank you for sharing your expertise and enthusiasm. A few...
A few days ago,I found an album on the TOPS label of Jack Teagarden.This album featured his orchestra.The album has a picture of Teagarden well into middle age...
Dear David and Howard, Many thanks for your answers to my query. As promised, your answers have been diligently noted by being copied into my "Green Book". ...
I wanted to be let known that the trumpet solo on "Passionette" has been attributed to Shad Collins in some very reliable sources (namely Hughes...
Hello Roger, I am sorry that this will take 3 e mails, but I wanted to give some data that many may not be familiar with this great musician Recordings...
The Doctor Jazz website has been updated with the following 5 articles of great historical interest: Brian Goggin sends an excellent essay on Benjamin (Reb) F....
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RedHotJazz/photos/album/854336427/pic/list?mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=21&&dir=asc If anyone can give me any information on...
OBITUARY: Rosetta Reitz; champion of women in jazz; 84 http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081124/news_1m24reitz.html By Douglas Martin NEW YORK TIMES...
Hi everyone! I discovered this site about 2 years ago and find the discography fascinating. I have been collecting 78 rpm recordings since I was 15 (1967) when...
I could not believe it. There is 8 new items updated on the Doctor Jazz website, including some pieces on Johnny St. Cyr, Volly DeFaut, Nick Rodriguez, Tony...
On February 18, 1931 King Oliver & His Orchestra recorded three titles, viz.: Where That Ol' Man River Flows Sugar Blues I'm Crazy About My Baby Allen and Rust...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RedHotJazz/photos/album/854336427/pic/list Here is the link. As I have time I'll add more of whats in the scrap book. Currently I...
Hello, My name is Lanny and I'm new to this forum. I've been playing tenor banjo years. I've heard a lot of Irish Tenor Banjo and old-time music, but not much...
A fight to save a bit of musical history is being waged for the buildings of Tin Pan Alley. Tin Pan Alley fans try to save classic American songwriting enclave...
Quote http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/hulsizer.html : "Morton didn't like Clarence Williams, even though Williams was from New Orleans. If he hadn't been a piano...
Came across two air takes of Jelly Roll Morton from 1940. Did not know that there were recordings of radio programs with him. The first one, Winin' Boy is a...
THis may be off topic. My apologies... I have Columbia Records 78 rpm disc C318 (5811 master?) Nearby where I live there are no good Libraries, so I looked for...
Mitchell Parish was a distinguished lyricist who was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. He wrote the lyrics for hundreds of songs, including...
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Hello. There is stated in "Red Hot Jazz Archives" that J.R. Morton plays banjo in "Mr. Jelly Lord", by "J.R. Morton's Incomparables". Is it true or a mistake?...
Although the Red Hot Jazz archive has many sound files for Irving Aaronson's two groups, the Commanders and the Crusaders, it does not appear that these groups...
Until this article, I didn't realize that "Tin Pan Alley" was actually a well-defined block in New York. -Paul Manhattan's historic Tin Pan Alley is up for...
