For Yves, Dave and the others of you in quest of the clarinet soloist on the Eva Taylor "Red Hot Flo from Kokomo", A while back, Chris Hillman interestingly...
James P. Johnson, the father of stride piano, the composer of "The Charleston" and "Carolina Shout," and one of the founders of modern jazz piano lies,...
Michael and everyone else I will have to purchase this CD ASAP, sounds like i will finally hear the Bailey sessions in good sound quality (considering...
Seeing that the matter was discussed on this list, I'd like to congratulate Robert Greenwood on the masterly way he has handled the poisoned chalice of ...
On a trip this afternoon to a local record shop, I picked up (among others) a record called "Let's Charleston" by a group billed as "Lou Arbuckle and the...
To my friends here at RedHotJazz I have spoken to Koester this week on a couple of different issues, one was regarding Boyd Atkins. Koester feels that...
Reese DuPree's four other Okeh sides are on Document 5482, "Male Blues of the Twenties Vol.1", but does anyone know if this coupling has ever been reissued?: ...
Of course, dear Yves, I know of your connection with Bob Koester. I did after all review a CD of yours on his label. Another amusing thing was the appearance...
   Hello everyone I have received(from an Amazon purchase) an excellent CD recorded in 1991 (and issued on Storyville) of swing trumpet star Bill Dillard....
I remember I wrote to the late Charles Fox after he'd said on BBC Jazz Record Requests that the alto solo on Louis' CHICAGO BREAKDOWN was probably the only...
Have not seen a video of Bent Persson on YouTube newer than 1986. Here he surfaces with a wonderful jazz trio that sounds like Louis Armstrong 1926, Johnny St...
Hans Lonnie Simmons was in the 1938 band Franz Jackson and Al Washington I do not know what years, I pretty much know not 1941 by the data provided here, but...
What appears to be an original label scan shows the author of "The Mess" as "T. Morris" (I don't know how long this link will last; scroll down to view the...
In researching Slick Jones, a question has arisen about how often Fats' group, His Rhythm, would accompany him on tour. Obviously Fats sometimes was booked...
I do not know if Mr.Scott Alexander,to whom every real jazz lover should be grateful,enjoys the hatreous postings of people understanding (?) only the post...
Hi again. I am not 100% positive if there are any Sidney Bechet recordings in which he primarily plays clarinet - it seems he switched to soprano saxophone so...
Hi, I keep reading two different versions on who played the slide whistle on songs like Sobbin' Blues - most say it was Louis Armstrong, others say it was Baby...
In reply to scottlededoo ... Could you quote an example where King in fact does solo in a similar style? The starting point of the "Flo" debate was his...
This is just another reminder to edit quoted posts when posting replies. The reason is not to torment anyone, but simply because: 1. it takes time to find the...
Blind Willie McTell gets credited with high intelligence, and why not. When he was interviewed for the Library of Congress in 1940 he spoke of the time when...
In all this discussion on whether Handy indeed heard the real blues in Mississippi in 1903, here is an excerpt from Ted Gioia's DELTA BLUES (W.W.Norton...
A while back in the thread on "Blues Roots," someone seemed to imply that the thought of the banjo being used in country blues, specifically John Lee Hooker's...
