Sidney Bechet played in 1929/30 in Berlin. He appearanced with his Band in "Haus Vaterland" - "House Fatherland", a big amusement palace near the Postdamer...
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Gilber M. Erskine
ethbert_the_...
May 3, 2009 6:22 pm
Very interesting, though I don't approve of the way jazz was presented in this film. This, like Bessie Smith's 'St Louis Blues', denigrates both the music and...
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levi.marco@...
marcolevi12
May 3, 2009 6:43 pm
... From : RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com To : RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com Cc : Date : Sun, 3 May 2009 14:21:36 -0400 Subject : Re:...
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veniero molari
veniero_molari
May 11, 2009 7:15 am
The two instruments played in the first short and described as "guitars" are VEGA lutes (see in a famous Five Pennies Vitaphones. Why they are still people...
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Bob Eagle
prof_hi_jinx
May 11, 2009 10:38 am
Sig. Molari, gracie! The reason for the profound silence so far about your post is that it took 9 days to reach the outskirts of the universe, having...
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Albert Haim
alberthaim
May 11, 2009 12:48 pm
I just notified Scott of problems with audio files in the RHJ site. Albert...
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Michael Rader
armstark2000
May 11, 2009 12:50 pm
Well, actually it was waiting for approval. I suspect Patrice wasn't around to clear it and I (who also have moderator rights) didn't look there until this...
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Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ
May 11, 2009 2:58 pm
... From: "Michael Rader" <Rader.Michael@...> To: <RedHotJazz@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [RedHotJazz] instruments ... ...
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philipcakebread
May 11, 2009 4:28 pm
After some months of borrowing tunes for my U3A Jazz study group, suddenly pnm://ra1.technoir.net/technoir/jazz/songs/any tune you care to mention tells me "No...
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Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ
May 11, 2009 4:51 pm
Welcome to the group, Philip. As I explained to you privately shortly before you joined, the RHJ server is a bit cranky, but there's always someone to warn...
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Gerard J. Fitzpatrick
aclassicjazzfan
May 15, 2009 5:09 pm
I learned this morning from Ren Brown of Worldsrecords.com that the long unavailable volume 7 of Sensation Records' Annette Hanshaw series (transfers by John...
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Patrice Champarou
patrice_champ
May 15, 2009 5:18 pm
... From: "Mike Meddings" <mike@...> To: Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 8:09 PM Subject: Jelly Roll Morton website update - 6 items of historical...
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bobby1mcgee1970
May 15, 2009 7:43 pm
... It only shows how erratic the industry has become...
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David W. Littlefield
dwlit@...
May 16, 2009 2:28 pm
IIRC--correct me if I'm wrong-- Sensation label was Jeff Healey, who died some years ago. I assume Hanshaw Vol. 7 is being re-released by Worlds Records. ...
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Bobby McGee
bobby1mcgee1970
May 16, 2009 6:24 pm
Worlds Records is an online music store and not a record label ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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David W. Littlefield
dwlit@...
May 16, 2009 7:19 pm
Worlds Records' label is "Renovation". It issued Vol. 1 & 2 of George Olsen several years ago. --Sheik...
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Bobby McGee
bobby1mcgee1970
May 17, 2009 7:33 am
I stand corrected, thanks! ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Albert Haim
alberthaim
May 19, 2009 8:43 pm
I sent another message to Scott alerting him of the problem with the audio files in the RHJ archive. So far, no response. Albert...
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folke613@...
folke613
May 22, 2009 4:04 am
Here is a fine recording featuring nice trumpet and saxophone work, recorded in Berlin in 1927. The recording company was called Tri Ergon which was an early...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
May 22, 2009 8:35 am
Can anyone tell me, please, in which edition of Mezzrow's Really the Blues did the afterword by Bernard Wolfe, Mezz's ghostwriter, first appear? I have been...
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Tony Standish
standish_au
May 22, 2009 10:31 am
Can't help you there Robert, but your query did prompt me to dig out my ageing Dell paperback of the book (or one of the books, anyway) that changed my life. ...
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Bob Eagle
prof_hi_jinx
May 22, 2009 10:52 am
I've met Tony "Mojohand"; Standish a number of times, although we are now separated by a continent (the smallest one, tho'). Back in the early 1960s he sold...
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Robert Smith
jayaressno
May 22, 2009 11:15 am
I don't know if this is much help, Robert, but I have the English Jazz Book Club edition of RTB published in 1959, and this does not have an afterword by...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
May 22, 2009 12:24 pm
Many thanks, Bob, and thanks to all who have responded so far. This brings me a little nearer, I guess. Wolfe (one-time secretary to the exiled revolutionary...
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Gilber M. Erskine
ethbert_the_...
May 22, 2009 12:29 pm
The Winter 2006 (Vol 39, No.1) of the IAJRC Journal has an absolutely marvelous long account by Ross Russell of the night in 1939 when Mezzrow arrived at...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
May 22, 2009 12:36 pm
Thank you for that, Gilbert. I intend to follow up that very article at the British Library tomorrow. I like to think that in his "lost tribe" speech Mezz...
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Tommer
tommersl
May 22, 2009 10:17 pm
... Last time I read this story I think it was Wild Bill Davison who witnessed this. I think it was either here brought by one of the members or maybe on Jazz...
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Gilber M. Erskine
ethbert_the_...
May 23, 2009 12:32 pm
Tommer--- I have no doubt that Davison had some story on this 1939 session. Bobby Hackett and Rod Cless had left the club after the last set, and the front...
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Robert Greenwood
robertgreenw...
May 27, 2009 2:04 pm
... Since Really the Blues is an autobiography (of sorts...), some discussion of its author is unavoidable. Mezzrow seems still to rouse strong feelings. I...
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Tommer
tommersl
May 27, 2009 3:08 pm
... Review can maybe be regarded as a form of art on it's own right, so reviewers are doing it the way they want. I personally don't like the reviews that are...
