Tag Archives: 1920s – 1930s

William McKinney was a drummer who by 1923 had retired from performing and only conducting and owning a big music group. In 1926 his clothing became referred to as McKinney’s Natural cotton Pickers, and the next year they obtained a significant coup by employing arranger/altoist/vocalist Don Redman from Fletcher Henderson. …

In past due 1926, singers Bing Crosby; Al Rinker; and vocalist/songwriter, arranger, and pianist Harry Barris created a vocal trio known as Rhythm Kids. The group performed because the presented vocalists of the very most popular band from the 1920s, the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, and may be noticed on a …

THE BRAND NEW Orleans Rhythm Kings (NORK) were the best possible jazz group to become on record in 1922, as well as the white band has served as proof that, even that early, African-Americans weren’t the only real ones who could play jazz with individuality and integrity. The main element …

Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (he’s often shown as simply Edward Clayborn, using the surname occasionally spelled Clayburn or Claeburn) billed himself as “your guitar Evangelist,” and even he was, performing some sort of blues gospel not really unlike the task from the better known Blind Willie Johnson. An excellent guitarist …

Manufacturer, engineer, and skill scout Ralph Peer spearheaded the U.S. documenting industry’s shift from traditional and opera to indigenous American root base music, overseeing the landmark 1927 program that released the professions of both Carter Family members and Jimmie Rodgers, while essentially creating the united states and “competition music” marketplaces …

The ’20s and ’30s Mississippi duo of fiddler W.T. Narmour (b. 1889) and guitarist S.W. Smith (b. Nov. 26, 1895) are in charge of a few of the most sublime and important types of early rural string music group recordings. The bluesy mix of Narmour’s sweetly nuanced bowing (indigenous towards …

Pianist Billy Mayerl was created on, may 31, 1902, in London’s Western world End. His skill for the device was instant, and by age seven he was their studies at Trinity University of Music. By his past due teenagers he was gaining decent cash tinkling the ivories at dances and …

Martha Copeland had a prolific saving career through the ’20s like a basic blues vocalist. Although she got plenty of competition, her supervisor, Joe Davis, helped her earn more income than a lot of her rivals, and his heavy involvement using the posting and songwriting business also guaranteed that a …

American lyricist Roy Turk wrote well-known hits through the 1920s and early ’30s, a lot of which were found in Broadway and Hollywood musicals of that time period. Blessed in N.Con.C., in 1892, Turk examined at CCNY and served within the armed service during WWI. After becoming discharged from your …

Considering just how many okay documenting sessions he was on in Chicago within the 1920s (particularly with Johnny Dodds), it really is astonishing how little is well known in regards to the mysterious Jimmy Blythe. He grew up in Kentucky, transferred to Chicago in 1918, and examined with pianist Clarence …