Tag Archives: 1910s – 1930s

A founding person in the initial Dixieland Jazz Music group, and an excellent rhythmic participant and force for the reason that group’s success. Edwards started playing violin at 10, after that used trombone at 15. He performed in regional New Orleans brass rings as an adolescent, included in this Stein’s …

Throughout their partnership Laurel (b. Arthur Stanley Jefferson, 16 June 1890, Ulverston, Lancashire (afterwards Cumbria), Britain, d. 23 Feb 1965, Santa Monica, California, USA) and Hardy (b. Oliver Norvell Hardy, 18 January 1892, Harlem, Georgia, USA, d. 7 August 1957, North Hollywood, California, USA) produced silent and speaking movies. In …

Likeable nation artist Curley Fletcher wouldn’t find very much distinction in his nickname, as nation and bluegrass music appears to be full of players named Curly, almost like strands of hair on to the floor of the barbershop. However in composing the traditional cowboy ballad “The Strawberry Roan” — in …

A colorful and rambunctious clarinetist, Larry Shields infused the initial Dixieland Jazz Music group with spirit along with a little bit of hilarity. Not just a main improviser (he tended to do it again his phrases a good deal), Shields’ extroverted and carefree audio symbolized jazz to numerous listeners from …

Bennie Moten is today best-remembered because the leader of the music group that partly became the nucleus of the initial Count number Basie Orchestra, but Moten deserves better. He was an excellent ragtime-oriented pianist who led the very best territory music group from the 1920s, an orchestra that basically set …

American composer and song writer. Her most well-known tune was “I REALLY LIKE You Truly”. Others included “AN IDEAL Time” and “Simply a-Wearyin’ FOR YOU PERSONALLY”.

Joe “Ruler” Oliver was among the fun new Orleans legends, an early on large whose legacy is partly on information. In 1923, he led among the traditional New Orleans jazz rings, the final significant group to emphasize collective improvisation over solos, but ironically his second cornetist (Louis Armstrong) would shortly …

Tin Skillet Alley lyricist Ballard MacDonald was created Oct 15, 1882, in Portland, OR, and later on moved to NY to get a songwriting profession. Doing work for the J. Fred Helf posting company, MacDonald published lyrics for any song known as “Play That Barber-Shop Chord” in 1910, which became …

He didn’t write a whole lot of tracks, at least set alongside the most prolific of lyricists; still, what Richard McPherson developed beneath the name of Cecil Mack provides shown to be a dish many performers desire a flavor of. A clerk tibia-deep in posting data speculated that there surely …

Jazz pianist and composer Spencer Williams was created in New Orleans on Oct 14, 1889, their studies at the neighborhood St. Charles University or college before relocating to Chicago in 1907. Ten years later on he was in NEW YORK, teaming with Fat Waller to pencil a small number of …