Hello all. My name is Yehoshua, I live in Israel, and it's a pleasure to be part of this wonderful group. I'm a beginner in Red Hot Jazz, thanks mostly to the...
Yehoshua, A couple of method books that might help: "Classic Jazz Guitar Styles," Tom Dempsey, Alfred Publishing "All Blues for Jazz Guitar," Jim Ferguson, Mel...
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Oct 1, 2009 7:18 pm
Hi Yehoshua. Welcome to Red Hot Jazz email list. 2 aspects: 1. To learn the style, listen to recordings on http://redhotjazz.com 2. If you have good ears you...
Hello my friends, just a brief query To me the wonderful trumpet on the Oken session by Buddy Christian's Creole Five sounds a lot like Harry Cooper (I usually...
For those who have been kept awake at night worrying over the subject of the Buddy Bolden Band photograph and the conundrum of its correct presentation, i.e....
Hi Yves Big Charlie worms can opens again. The Rippers are on the Big Charlie Thomas Timeless but the Creole 5s are not. Therefore JRT did not think they were...
Dave, everyone ... Herwin LP 107 - New Orleans Sounds in New York 1924-1926 or CD: Hot 'n'Sweet 151222 The Complete Clarence Williams Sessions 1923-1931 Vol....
Hello Yves, In his notes to Collectors Items 006, Chris Hillman also puts forward this proposition: "aural evidence also certainly places him in Buddy...
In 'Clarence Williams', Tom Lord writes: "Charlie Gaines denies his presence (October 28, 1973)." The cornet's approach and character on up-tempo instrumental...
Dave, Yves, everyone ... No, since he claims that the Timeless has all Big Charlie except for alternates (the Joe Sims and the Tom Morrises almost certainly...
There is also a version of "Swanee Butterfly" by the Trocadero Melody Boys on Sunset 1060. Are you interested in that version? Hans Eekhoff...
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David W. Littlefield
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Oct 7, 2009 3:35 am
Hi Hans. Yes! .mp3 would be fine for my purposes. This is a lovely tune. I'm surprised that I haven't found it on any of the many reissues in my collection. I...
David, could you remind me of this on 15 December via email: oriole@... so I can make a transfer and send it to you. I am not with my collection until...
Thanks to Yves for bringing our attention to these sides which I have now heard although not in definitive quality. Indeed wonderful cornet playing if...
Harry Cooper is named on the Columbia file card which is as cast iron as it gets! The other three band members are named also. ... Howard Rye, 20 Coppermill...
David and all - first you are very welcome. I love the Creole Five session - there is so much simpatico on the recordings. I was wondering on the cornet...
Hi Yves Right about Tom Morris being almost two players. Never at his best when required to follow an arrangement -- I doubt he actually read -- he blossoms ...
Hi all: I originally sent this reply three weeks ago, but it appears it wasn't received. On the 12 and 14 January 1981, Ernest Virgo wrote to me to suggest...
Hi David and others: It's members of the Jimmy Wade Orchestra (including Wade himself, c, and Arnett Nelson, cl) with possibly JP Johnson on p, on the 16 Feb...
Hello J.T. Nice to hear. Thanks. Rust (1969) has Aiken firmly in place alongside J.P.J. on the Bradford. How did this ever get running then ? Although I do...
Hello again J.T. Many thanks for your information on the origins of the King 'Flo' theory. The sessions you mention, Taylor & Martin, are pretty wide spread...
An even bigger problem with musiciansı memories than the mere fallibility of memory is the specific problem that the memories may be genuine but have become...
As regards rehearsals vs. recording sessions, a good example, among many, of such uncertainty from authentic memories is in Andy Kirk's book "Twenty Years On...
And I see that I included him in the discography for "Twenty Years On Wheels" but Iım afraid I donıt remember my reasoning. It would be nice to think itıs...
Thanks for starting this thread, Yves... At the risk of over-speculation and attendant projections, I suspect the second cornetist on the Gulf Coast Seven's...
Is Margaret Carter a pseudonym for Margaret Johnson (or vice versa)? Listening to the latter's "When A 'Gator Hollers, Folks Say It's A Sign Of Rain" and...
Hello John Thanks. Several interesting points there. The notes to the 'Big Charlie' have indeed Carter and Johnson as one and the same. I have the N.O. Blue 5...
Charlie Johnson came to Europe with Leon Abbey in 1927, arriving at Southampton on 14 December. According to the passenger list, he was 30. He was not a member...
Hi Dave, The "Big Charlie Thomas" agenda seems something of a red herring... the name itself speculative, a conflation of disparate elements. Attributions of...
