Tin Skillet Alley tunesmith Billy Heagney had a work of good luck with music about Hawaii from the first ’30s. In some instances the quantity of credit getting poured on him like pineapple juice ought to be doubled, as the brands of his co-writing companions tend to end up being …

This Mississippi banjo player is recognized as among the members from the Leake County Revelers, probably one of the most popular old-time string bands in Mississippi in the late ’20s, aswell as among among the earliest groups to create records for the reason that state. Like a lot of the …

The senior person in the swinging Gaines family was a trumpeter, occasionally dabbling on trombone, who played a component in lots of high points from the ’20s and ’30s music scene such as for example recordings with Fatty acids Waller and touring using the illustrious Hot Chocolates revue. The approach …

Although Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan are categorized within the acoustic blues revival period, similar to Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, they inject fun themes to their repertoire, be it “No Money, Zero Honey,” “Your Sneakers Don’t Fit,” “Poultry a la Blues,” “YOUR BRAIN Is within the Gutter,” or “My …

Like the majority of neo-swing rings who gained a larger measure of business reputation in the past due 1990s, Big Rude Jake and his music group have already been living the life span a long time before “Swingers” as well as the Gap advertisements. Many of these rings, just like …

A supporter and propagandist for New Orleans jazz and ragtime, Rudi Blesh produced an impact around the globe of trad jazz. He went to Dartmouth College and worked like a jazz critic for the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Chronicle in the first ’40s as well as for the brand new …

A co-employee professor of piano as well as the director of piano pedagogy studies at Eastman College of Music in Rochester, NY, Tony Caramia is constantly on the explore the entire spectral range of the ragtime tradition. His debut recording, Nimble Fingered Gentleman, released in 1996, paid homage towards the …

J. Bodewalt Lampe was the sheet music moniker of Danish-born composer and arranger “Wayne” or Jens Bodewalt Lampe. Created in Ribe, Lampe found its way to America along with his family members in 1873 and resolved in St. Paul, MN, where Lampe’s dad, Christian Lampe, was involved to lead the …

Alan Seidler initial attracted widespread interest in 1975 along with his Blue Goose LP The Duke of Ook. On its cover, an unflattering caricature by R. Crumb gave the impression that Seidler was a frowsy nut-ball, and his “Oozing Cyst Blues” appeared to keep out that assumption. Years afterwards, the …

b. 20 March 1914, New Castle, Pa, USA. In his past due teens, Caiazza caused territory rings in the Midwest before becoming a member of Joe Haymes’ well-known dance music group in 1936. He used several swing period big rings including Woody Herman’s, but created his best function of the …