Of course British jazz didn't start with Elizalde it started with the ODJB! In the 1920s and onwards, the British dance band/jazz scene tended to follow ...
Harris also states:"... there is something about the sound of a clarinet parping away while a trumpet hyperactively does much the same that will always seem so...
Howard, does Josephine know you are being as explicit about this as you are? (The habits of a lifetime die hard.) Josephine, if you are reading this, please...
No idea what the regulations for record production in the U.K. in wartime were. I am sure the output was restricted. Did you perhaps have to hand in a record...
Howard Many thanks. Were there coupons for records ? Received wisdom is that shellac had some vital military use which accounts for the shoddy wartime ...
But the guess is wrong. HMV B9131 was issued about September 1940. I could no doubt recover the exact release date but itıs not worth the trouble. So itıs...
Hello Robert I guess this shows, as did your JJ quote, that mostly out there now are those having the arrogance to pontificate upon jazz from a position of ...
... From: Andrew Taylor Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:34 PM To: redhotjazz@yahoogroups.com Subject: [RedHotJazz] Georeferencing the Red Hot Jazz Archive ... ...
This Saturday's edition of the Guardian newspaper includes yet another long article prompted by All What Jazz, Philip Larkin's collection of record reviews,...
This is a copy of an email I tried to write Scott Alexander, but his email didn't work. Hopefully Scott participates here, and regardless I'm sure many of...
Part One of an article on the post-Bix Jean Goldkette recordings (specifically those with arrangements by Don Redman), written by myself and Albert Haim, was...
Was there not a series of Swing to Spiritualism concerts ????? Bolden's appearances a great disappointment because of the echoey acoustic echoey acoustic.... ...
I guess what is meant is that the PHJB was playing along with the Buddy Bolden cylinder, but next month they will correct that howler and clarify that in fact...
Here is a recent recording of the Preservation Hall Jazz band outplaying the Cincinatti Pops Symphonic Orchestra on Bourbon Street Parade. Cannot figure out ...
It must be a rumour, spread by the ghost of Grahame Boatfield - or is young McRae being mischievous! Nice to hear that the old mag has hit the ground running! ...
According to the latest Jazz Journal " The Preservation Hall Jazz Band has toured for almost 50 years sometimes playing alongside such jazz pioneers as Buddy...
That's it! It's production music. It's called "In the Swing" by Alan Moorhouse. http://www1.playmusiconline.com/pages/viewcd/viewcd.cfm?view=1836 Thanks so...
Greetings from FixitLand! ... Welcome to the Group! I don't think that tune is anything "real" -- sounds very much like a generic Big-Band-Sound riff piece...
Theme music for big bands at Disneyland? this must be one of the hardest blindfold items possible, no soloist and a could be almost anybody but Ellington...
I'm new to this group and need some help. I'm trying to help a friend identify the background music in this promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEzTrhEMo0U...
I think you may have some problems - especially if you are looking at a band from New Orleans - there were so many "Creole" and light skinned Black musicians...
Not necessarily, although I am indeed the U.S., and the photo that I seek to contextualize is also an American scene with a jazz/dance band orientation. But...
