... I will send the poster to the group’s “photos” section in a few minutes, link will follow. Thanks Patrice [Non-text portions of this message have...
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,...
Hi there, and thank you for reading this. I'm a tuba player and general music nerd from Atlanta ... and I'm doing some research on the tuba/bass player Henry...
Although jazz should be listened to, I find that the best way to identify different takes, if and when there are fine nuances suspected, is to use the free...
Hi gang, I've gotten really interested in the song "I'm Goin' Away Just to Wear You Off My Mind" lately. It was co-composed by the Smith brothers (Lloyd and...
Here is a version of Swanee River played by the New Orleans Quartet featuring a superb extended string bass solo by Annie Hawkins. If you like this recording,...
I've just been listening to the New Orleans Wanderers, and this prompts me to pop a question about 'Too Tight'. Johnny St. Cyr says: "Weave it, Johnny Boy,...
I saw the Paragon Brass Ensemble play some nice arrangements of ragtime, souza march jazz-age music yesterday for the 4th-of-July celebrations at Bayou Bend in...
I read somewhere that Ma Rainey made in excess of 100 recordings. The Red Hot Jazz Archive contains 94 recordings. Does anyone know if these 94 recordings were...
The daughter iof tenor saxophonist and clarinettist Franz Jackson is trying to raise funds through the KickStarter scheme to issue a double CD of her late...
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 jazzgroup 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...
Your report that Bernie Young and his wife were George Filhé's lodgers in January 1920 is most interesting, Howard. If, as stated, Filhé was 46 in Jan 1920,...
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...
