Does anyone know the whereabouts (or another email address) of Scott? Ordinarily, he is fairly prompt in responding and taking action on the problems with the...
Nice stuff, Robert. Mezzrow was clearly what would be termed a "poseur" by younger people than me; his talents lay more in marketing and the schmooze than in...
Terrific! Perceptive, penetrating, and without any of the fashionable 'intellectual' jargon or idelogogy. I especially like the description of the trad scene...
... Thank you so much, Gilbert. The only objection I raise is to being credited as "Bob" Greenwood. You must also acknowledge the excellent Culture Wars site. ...
Well, I'm chuffed that Gilbert enjoyed Robert's description of the Trad scene in England! I'm sure that Ken, Chris, Sandy, Humph, Wally, Lonnie, Cuff, Mick,...
Poor old Mezz, indeed: a man whose vision and aspirations so far exceeded his actual talents as to be ridiculous. We wouldnšt jeer at his theories if he had...
... Robert, such comments about the British trad on a co.uk site! I'd like to read more about some of the subject raised: 1. In the picture that Mezz was the...
... I'm surprised that Tony should lump Ken together with Chris, Lonnie, Monty, and Ottilie. That's a bit like lumping Muggsy, Pee Wee, Jack, and Eddie with...
Dear Robert Alex Welsh, whose 80th we can soon celebrate, kept the best European band in the Chicagoan and later 'mainstream' styles. He himself was arguably...
"His version of 'Davenport Blues', a discussion of which can be found on Albert's Bixography and elsewhere, is one of those very rare things -- a perfect jazz...
Tommer As promised, a reply to your interesting post. This does move into areas beyond the remit of this list. Unavoidably. 1. I don't know if Mezz was the...
I mentioned Johnny Otis in an earlier post because I think Mezzrow wanted to achieve, both musically and socially, what Johnny Otis has successfully achieved....
This does go beyond the remit of this list, but the election of two BNP members to the European Parliament may be fodder for those who like to believe that the...
Smith Ballew Interview http://jazzagemusic.blogspot.com/2009/06/smith-ballew-interview.html#links From a couple of reel to reels my cousin had... Smith Ballew...
Well, Robert, they were all part of the traditional jazz scene Some played N'Awlins, some Chicago, some Dixieland, some mainstream, some moved around from one...
I am very pleased that Robert agrees with me on the quality of 'Davenport Blues'. 'Tangerine' is not perfect but contains fine playing, as ever, from Roy ...
... Hi Robert, there are few points about Marxism amd Mezz/Wiggas Mezz: I am not sure it matters what people think about Mezz but what he did. A caricature,...
Robert --- congratulations. An achievement to construct so substantial an essay on so insubstantial a subject. Also finding the real non-musical pith, for...
Ladies and gents, I sometimes have some trouble understanding what everybody is aiming at - or fighting for - in this discussion, but apart from Robert's...
... Patrice, I am not sure if this is appreciated info here from Hear me Talkin to you book: Leora Henderson:"Many of the musicians would come up to the house...
I havenšt read Really The Bluesš in years but I am surprised to find it described as containing no material of musical value. I remember it as containing...
... Howard, About 15 years ago I did actually find Mezzrow's grave in the Pere Lachaise, although I wasn't looking for it. It isn't, in fact, a grave as such....
Cimetičre du Pčre Lachaise is where the great Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde is buried. Isn't he the poet who penned:- Yet each man kills the thing he...
I wasn't going to get involved in this discussion, mais puisque vous me demandez, Patrice, here it is. Tommer writes, "any white early "Jazz" player is...
Sorry if this postwar query is an off topic one, but I recently acquired the 1954 LP isued under Spencer Williams' name, "Spencer Williams, New Orleans to...
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