Many thanks Nick for the definitive discographical overview and history. You put your finger right on the nub -- why -- what source was there for -- the...
This is a disagreement caused merely by failure to define terms. Bailey was unquestionably technically superior in 1940 but does this make him a better jazz...
Right Howard There are indeed a few late examples of Buster playing a good blues but his normal blues mode was rather too glib. However, this style totally...
Not exactly on the topic, but I heard an interview with Buster Bailey on WDET radio. It must have been late 60's. The one thing I particularly remember is that...
Alan If it is Procope on 'Deep Creek' I think the clarinet solo was written out by Morton because it is far more convincing blues than anything else he ever ...
Michael That's very interesting and not anything elsewhere documented as far as I know. That would not however mean that Buster did not consider himself ...
Pleasant surprise for me as an Armstrong buff, enjoyed Chilton's excellent (as I recall) biography of Armstrong /Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story/ (with Max...
*This is Dave -- Robert sent this to me instead of to the group by mistake and, as he is away, has asked me to fwd to the group. I see a view that Russell...
Many thanks Robert for such a substantial and interesting post. I guess our opposite opinions on the stature of Procope are based to a large extent on our...
Ken Mathieson -- veteran drummer and leader of the impressive CJO n Scotland, tells me when he was talking to Harold Dejan a number of years ago Dejan told him...
Hi Robert And excuse late reply -- I've been away. That Procope studied with Tio is extremely interesting and, as far as I can tell, unreported elsewhere. It...
I've got to say that I agree with Dave Green, not Dave Brown regarding Benny Waters' tone on clarinet. I saw him many times from the 70s to the 80s and was...
Hi Marc Quite prepared to believe you and Dave Green but can't find any Waters on clarinet. Quite a lot Youtube but alto. Anybody point at some online or...
Further to the recent Noone and Procope thread, I'm researching the brass band cornetist and singer U.S.G. Patterson, and thanks to Seroff and Abbott's books,...
HI DAVID: You might find Ben Waters on clarinet with King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators especially perhaps TIN ROOF blues. He also played with Clarence Williams...
Hi Robert Benny Waters was something of an anachronism, seemingly playing in a style unaltered from his formative years. I can believe that his clarinet...
'He was an important session musician. He played Bass Clarinet on the sound-tracks of the Hammer horror movies featuring actors Peter Cushing and Christopher...
Dear David, I've also got Ben Waters as sometimes possible, sometimes probable, and almost certain on Clarence Williams with King Oliver recordings in 1928,...
Hi Bob Many thanks for the long list. Reasonable bustling neo-Hawkins tenor solos there are but few clarinet solos and those are very, very unimpressive and on...
Greetings, I am excited to join this discussion group. I'm writing a book that covers Louis Armstrong from 1922 through the early 1930s. It's my third (and...
Welcome to the group, Tom. And once again, I suggest redirecting all questions regarding the Archive website to the "technical" list ( rhj-tech@yahoogroups.com...
Hi all, Today (15th September) is the 85th anniversary of Jelly's Red Hot Peppers recording session in the Webster Hotel in Chicago. After all this time the ...
