Here is an amusing Vitaphone short clip from 1929 with a band that I have never heard of - Tal Henry and his North Carolinians Orchestra. At 5:01 there is a...
A couple of months back I asked for and received lots of useful advice as to how to follow up my relatively new interest in vintage jazz. Following on from...
I'm hoping to hear some of these sessions, I'd have thought them mostly not terribly obscure, but none of them are on the RHJA. I'm happy to purchase them...
Hi, everybody! I wonder if anybody out there would have the article mentioned in the title in an electronic format, and would share it with me? It was...
Off The Record, the label that brought you the stunning King Oliver compilation a few years back, is proud to announce its forthcoming "The Complete...
Dear list Someone in another jazz group posted this suggestion/question: <<<I recently took a chance and spent five bucks on a 78 by the "Superior Jazz...
Dear Friends, my name is Livio Laurenti from Trieste, Italy and ,as many of you out there, I also had joned the group because of the misterious 404 error...
I've been having great fun reading the Filhe correspondence. All I can make out on the basis of my professional experience as editor and translator is that...
To confuse matters further, I just ran across this: http://www.hancockcountyhistoricalsociety.com/reference/recordchurch_b.htm?id=OB-4915 It's the baptism of:...
Found this gem of a 19 yeard old Andy Schumm playing Bix style cornet with two others (truet?). Nominated for hottest trumpet/cornet playing this year! The...
Can anybody come up with any information -- beyond Hillman notes on the Frog issue -- on this trumpeter/cornettist active in Chicago in the 20s. He was ...
I wonder if the French name 'Filhe' has been anglicized to 'filly' meaning (colloquially) 'a lively young girl'? Cheers Bob Smith [Non-text portions of this...
Published personnels for the Dixie Syncopators came originally from Luis Russell and Omer Simeon. On some sessions at least Ory identified himself (and Jimmy...
to play on the title of an LP -- Bill was definitely an original, wherever he came from, and to judge from some reports also a man prey to the furies. From...
When I try to open any of the songs on this website, I get the following: Server Error 404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for...
Can anyone point me to recordings, apart from the session with Sidney Bechet, for which the participation of trumpeter Gus Aiken is in some way verfified? He...
The three audio-files uploaded and deleted yesterday were "Tiger Rag" (New Orleans Rhythm Kings, 1923); "Ory's Creole Trombone" (7 Pods of Pepper, 1922); and...
Hi, everyone! Would anybody know whether or not Kid Ory's 1921 recording of "Ory's Creole Trombone" is available as an MP3? I have seen other versions of the...
All three of these uploads to the Links section have the advantage of the late Verne Buland's digital remastering. They're in the .OGG format, which most...
My most recent experience of a band not sounding like itself goes back a long way, though only to John Dankworth, and a Scottish television chat show. There...
I went to "The Red Hot Jazz Archive" today to see if any more of Annette Hanshaw's songs had been posted. I found that none of the song files could be opened....
Is there any background info on why Oliver sent to New Orleans for Armstrong? Was his technique already failing at that early date? I don't think second...
It would be better if offers of mp3s were communicated off-list, especially as the intended recipient if receiving one batch daily -- as I do -- might not get...
THE JOINT IS JUMPIN' at the New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp for Adults PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information: Nita Hemeter 504-865-9792 ...
I'm a new member, been listening to traditional jazz since I discovered the Hot Fives in 1955 at age 14. I was a little out of place as a teenager raving to...
... I am the biographer of James P. Johnson (A Case Of Mistaken Identity- The life and Music of James P. Johnson, Scarecrow press and Rutgers Inst. Of Jazz...
