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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
... Since Really the Blues is an autobiography (of sorts...), some discussion of its author is unavoidable. Mezzrow seems still to rouse strong feelings. I...
... 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...
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