Less is more when searching! If you search Joe “King” Oliver you will not see any results for King Oliver without the quotation marks. If you search Joe Oliver you will not see any results for King Oliver where the first name was never used. For best results search by last name alone.
Wingy Manone had an appealing image of a happy intuitive musician, a primitive who one day woke up and started playing the trumpet for the
The 1930s Jeff Barnhart: Hal, last month we explored the tune “Copenhagen” from the first recording by Bix in 1924 to versions essayed through 1929.
Minnesota based pianist and clarinetist Butch Thompson passed away on August 14th, he was 78. He was most widely known as the house pianist and
Arnett Nelson has a reasonably distinctive tone with a rather fine and fast vibrato and a rich chalumeau (low register) tone. In the 1920s, he
If there’s one thing my Sherrie Tucker-inspired scribblings—to which I collectively refer as “my forgotten ladies”—have revealed, it’s that behind many of history’s greatest jazzmen
In his career, Bing Crosby showed that he could sing practically everything other than opera. Whether it was classic American pop tunes, traditional Irish songs,
It may have been the traditional jazz equivalent of a happy accident. The New Orleans jazz band Tuba Skinny couldn’t make its date for Switzerland’s
In 1966, while visiting a friend in San Diego, our conversation turned to my obsession with traditional jazz. My friend said, “I think my dad
Stretched out with my eyes closed, atop a lounger in my backyard—on a day which could only be described as alarmingly barmy, for Britain in
Starting the summer back in Arizona, the May meeting of the Arizona Classic Jazz Society in Chandler, Arizona, featured Cheryl Thurston’s annual birthday party celebration
Andy Senior: In my column last month (“Genre Fluid”), I reflected on the purported offensiveness of the word “jazz,” and cited, without commentary, some rather
While any article about music should have the music as its primary focus, the attempt herein is, in addition, to provide a background and cultural
Ed Metz Jr. has had a multitude of varied experiences since he was given a set of drum sticks by the drummer in his father’s
Swing singer Maxine Sullivan and stride pianist Cliff Jackson may not have been the most logical matchup, but it was a marriage that worked. Both
The Secret Six is the latest hot jazz band to establish itself in New Orleans, joining in the top tier an exciting roster of groups
Every once in a while, I hear an album that makes me fall in love with the piano all over again. Usually it’s a classic
This superb two-disc set honors drummer Arthur J. Singleton, known throughout the jazz world by the nickname “Zutty.” (Trevor Richards says in his liner notes,
Don’t call vocalist Tamar Korn a songbird or, heaven forbid, a singer; those terms are far too reductive. More accurately she’s a free flying “animal-spirit”;
Graham Washington Jackson Sr. was an African American musician best known as the favorite musician of President Franklin Roosevelt. Jackson performed for six presidents and
Boogie-woogie, which has been said to have originated in Texas in the 1870s, started out as a piano music characterized by an “eight-to-the-bar” left-hand pattern
When I was about to set off for New Orleans on the first ever venture by the Ken Colyer Trust in the early nineties, one
They were one of the most popular Dixieland bands of the 1950s and ’60s, performing and recording their enthusiastic brand of trad jazz for a
My contemporaries and I at Chiswick County Grammar School for Boys heard our first jazz records in one of a row of four World War
Just occasionally, a piece of music makes you go, “Wait, what?” This was my reaction on first spinning Egyptian Ella by Les Bleu Pelouse. The
