Tag Archives: 1920s – 1930s

Oscar Dealmeida wrote the lyrics from the big strike from the Carnival of 1916, the valse “Pierrô e Colombina” (music by Eduardo das Neves). In 1919, Dealmeida composed the march “A Queda Da Rosa” with Bonfiglio de Oliveira for the rancho (Carnival group) Ameno Resedá. In the 10 years of …

Smith’s Sacred Performers were an beginner “shape-note” performing group led by J. Frank Smith, a Methodist instructor located in Braselton, GA. Fairly little is well known concerning this group, which endured many workers adjustments in its decade-long documenting profession, with Smith portion as the primary continuous. At their initial recording …

Grime and various funk getting counted as a secured asset in blues and jazz, it just is practical that performers from the name of Charlie Grimes would come across coveted spots in a variety of hot bands. An early on presence concerning this name was an alto and tenor saxophonist …

Among American culture’s good kept secrets, Memphis clarinetist Douglas Williams made several dozen information for the Victor label through the years 1928-1930 and promptly disappeared from your collective radar of jazz for 70 years. In 2000, Jazz Oracle spilled the coffee beans by exposing his existence towards the world having …

For an interval in the past due 1920’s, George E. Lee’s Orchestra was a close rival of Bennie Moten’s in Kansas Town. The older sibling of singer-pianist Julia Lee, George E. Lee used an Army music group in 1917, sang having a vocal quartet and in 1920 created a combo. …

Vocal/instrumental group shaped in Recife, Pernambuco, in 1926 by Augusto Calheiros (vocals), João Frazão (musical director/guitar), the blind Manoel de Lima (guitar), and brothers João Miranda (guitar) and Romualdo Miranda (violão), the Turunas da Mauricéia extensively influenced the metropolitan music of Rio de Janeiro using their ostensive Northeastern culture. This …

The old-timey folksinger Richard Burnett hailed from Monticello, Kentucky. Created in 1883, he was blinded inside a robbery attempt in 1907, and became a specialist vocalist and banjo participant quickly afterward. His ballad entitled “Farewell Music” was later on adapted in to the folk regular “A GUY of Regular Sorrow.” …

Kitty Dark brown purred her way to small glory within the traditional blues scene with some sides trim in 1923 and 1924, and briefly reappeared in the next decade like a vocalist using the Les Dark brown big band. She actually is sometimes recognised incorrectly as some type of jazz …

It really is understood, certainly, that his first name was Bob, and his partner’s first name was Jim. Collectively, it had been Jim & Bob, better referred to as the Genial Hawaiians, a duo that documented some edges in the ’20s and ’30s which were regarded as masterpieces of acoustic …

When this ensemble slice the recordings “The Knocknagon” and “Fowling Piece” in 1931, it had been something similar to a cannon heading off with regards to the effect it could have about traditional Irish music internationally. Though it had not been the 1st documenting of Irish music ever released — …