Thanks to Gilbert for bringing this rather obscure N.O. player, born 1890, to our attention. I have found only some early Abe Lyman sides which are stiff and...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Feb 6, 2009 9:20 am
... wrote: "First for the 'St Louis Blues' overview and do you hear these as copies of the Shields or a previously existent traditional blues 'solo' ?~ I don't...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Feb 6, 2009 9:45 am
I don't know either but my informed opinion is that they were copying the Shields solo. How this so entered the public domain I have no idea. Possibly one...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Feb 6, 2009 1:26 pm
There used to be a wealth of information on Nunez on the web, still accessible via the wayback machine:...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Feb 6, 2009 2:42 pm
"Alcide Nuņez: Back Home In New Orleans" is at <http://web.archive.org/web/20011220161948/www.geocities.com/infrogmation/Nu NOHome.html> This is accessible...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
Feb 6, 2009 4:55 pm
... <http://web.archive.org/web/20011220161948/www.geocities.com/infrogmation/Nu ... Yes it is indeed. I tried clicking on various links this afternoon and ...
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yves francois
aprestitine
Feb 6, 2009 5:33 pm
Just a brief note: The NOLA clarinet style is based on a multitude of ethnic influences. We site Nunez as "white" and Tio as "black" or at most "creole",...
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Dan Van Landingham
danvanlandin...
Feb 7, 2009 4:35 am
Just what is "Uptown" clarinette style?I've never heard the term before.When I think of the likes of Nunez,Shields,Tio and the rest,I only know of "Louisiana...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Feb 9, 2009 9:56 am
I have taken the liberty of dragging the various N.O. clarinet threads together. Nunez & Tio may both have been of Hispanic descent but surely they represent ...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Feb 9, 2009 10:38 am
This is a strange business. Earlier sources just give Barnes on alto sax and Pierson on tenor sax without mentioning there is a clarinettist (with Carriere...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Feb 9, 2009 10:59 am
Of course the trombonist is Eddie Pierson, so forget about this please! ... Howard Rye, 20 Coppermill Lane, London, England, E17 7HB ...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Feb 9, 2009 2:18 pm
I've near been able to hear Paul Barnes on the Celestins, at least playing clarinet, unless his playing was drastically different in 1927 from what it became...
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Gilber M. Erskine
ethbert_the_...
Feb 9, 2009 2:29 pm
I would have to add Pete Fountain to your list of revival clarinet players. As commercial as he later became, in the late 40s, early 50s, he was truly...
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Mordechai Litzman
folke613
Feb 9, 2009 3:58 pm
Just wanted to bring attention to an excellent 1929 recording of Tony Parenti from 1929 - Old Man Rhytm. Another good clarinet player that I am not sure has...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Feb 9, 2009 4:12 pm
Only alto and clarinet doubling alto on the 1926 Celestins. The alto solos must be Polo so the clarinet is not him. It is possible -- just -- to hear three...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Feb 9, 2009 4:39 pm
... What would it prove whether he did or he didn't? Might he not have answered just to please The Man or, more likely, just to shut him up? I'm always amazed...
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Bob Mates
bluesbob@...
Feb 9, 2009 5:37 pm
This message puts me in mind of an interview which John A. Lomax did with the great blues singer, Blind Willie McTell, for the Library of Congress. During...
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velostigmat
Feb 10, 2009 12:52 am
The clarinetist on the Vicksburg Blowers sessions of 1927, found on "Rare Hot Chicago Jazz" audibly employs cycle breathing,holding one note for maybe 20...
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lindazorakgold
Feb 10, 2009 6:29 am
Thought the group would want to know that MSNBC is reporting that Blossom Dearie has died of natural causes in her Manhattan home at age 82. Linda Gold...
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yves francois
aprestitine
Feb 10, 2009 6:40 am
David, nice to read this, some clarification on the Celestin records and reed sections, and other observations ... RE: Celestin sessions 1926/8 reedmen...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Feb 10, 2009 8:27 am
Notwithstanding Brothers, from whom we have still not heard on Uptown clarinet style, genius is very thin on the ground and cannot be passed on. What is passed...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Feb 10, 2009 9:07 am
Thanks Yves I don't hear Pierson on 'Ta Ta Daddy'. The player is weaker. Jazz Directory 1955 merely reinstates the personnel of over a year previously ---...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Feb 10, 2009 9:57 am
This academicism reminds me somewhat of the Gene Deitch cartoon from The Record Changer of December 1945 where the eager collector/critic asks the...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Feb 10, 2009 10:08 am
Therešs really no doubt at all that the clarinettist on the Vicksburg Blowers session is Vance Dixon, since this was really a Black Patti session and the...
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yves francois
aprestitine
Feb 10, 2009 12:37 pm
Andrew Morgan recorded rather prolifically from the very late 40's onwards. A live recording with Herb Morand in 1949 (Happy Landings?, it's issued at the end...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
Feb 10, 2009 12:50 pm
The session you remember as being on Circle was reissued on Center, but it originally came out on La Croix and was recorded in 1967 by "Lord" Richard Ekins. It...
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don thornton
dthow
Feb 10, 2009 5:26 pm
hello all here is the new york times obituary which is free to read, but one must first register with the newspaper to read it online ...
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Bob Eagle
prof_hi_jinx
Feb 10, 2009 8:27 pm
Howard, I suggest that Vance S. Dixon will be the white Autombile Mechanic (of that spelling) who was at Jacksonville FL for the 1930 census. Your proposed...
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fraser mccombe
fraser540021
Feb 10, 2009 8:44 pm
David Brown asked about Andrew Morgan's later recordings.there are quite a few. In 1949 he recorded with Herb Morand, AMCD-9 then in 1958 with the Young Tuxedo...
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Bob Eagle
prof_hi_jinx
Feb 10, 2009 9:02 pm
To move onto serious matters, Dixon was from Parkersburg, *West* Virginia, born about 1901, a son of Harrison and Clara Belle Dixon. The 1920 census...
