Tag Archives: 1920s – 1930s

b. 28 June 1902, Ripley, Ohio, USA, d. 2 Dec 1937. Along with his dad, six brothers along with a cousin all playing trumpet, it really is hardly astonishing that Smith also performed the device. By his past due teenagers, Smith was playing in NY, where he became a huge …

Also called the “Southern Songbird,” Louisiana Lou’s true name was Eva Conn. Although she may have already been from Louisiana, the very first historical track of her was as students at Clarke Memorial University near Jackson, MS, within the ’20s. She started documenting within the middle-’30s and could have no …

The Oklahoma Town Blue Devils, also called Walter Page’s Blue Devils, featured an all-star lineup as you of Kansas City’s premier jazz bands in the later 1920s and early 1930s. The place music group is most beneficial known for breaking within a gifted youthful pianist called William Basie, who afterwards …

Lil Johnson used a very important factor that always markets in music, everytime: sex. She ultimately toned straight down her lyrics relatively, since record firm censorship was starting to plague her in addition to shifting public flavor. Nonetheless, she documented a number of sides between your past due ’20s, when …

A classic feminine blues singer who performed and documented from the first ’20s to the past due ’30s, Viola McCoy was created in either Mississippi or Tennessee (accounts vary), moving to NEW YORK in the first ’20s, where she was energetic in revues and cabarets. Her documenting profession lasted from …

Probably one of the most amazing fiddlers of his period, Uncle Bunt Stephens won contests galore through the ’20s and later on appeared within the Grand Ole Opry because the “Globe Champ Fiddler.” Created John L. Stephens in Bedford, Tennessee in 1879, he was orphaned early in existence and elevated …

Many details in the annals of American country music tend to be more like legends than facts. Uncle Jimmy Thompson, it is stated in tale, was the 1st musician to execute within the Grand Ole Opry, or the group of live radio broadcasts of old-time music that ultimately became known …

Charlie Holmes was among the finest alto-saxophonists from the past due 1920’s/early 30’s period, particularly if he was good presented with Luis Russell’s Orchestra. An early on affiliate of both Harry Carney and Johnny Hodges (both of whom had been boyhood close friends), Holmes was a theoretically skilled instrumentalist in …

Among the finest early trombonists as well as the initial strong jazz soloist within the Fletcher Henderson orchestra (signing up for slightly before Louis Armstrong), Charlie Green played locally in Omaha (1920-1923) before his two stints with Henderson (July 1924-Apr 1926 and later 1928-springtime 1929). An excellent blues participant who …

Joe “Fox” Smith had among the prettiest shades & most lyrical varieties of any jazz soloist within the 1920s, and he was Bessie Smith’s favourite sideman. The majority of Smith’s family members performed trumpet, including his dad, Luke Smith, Sr. (who led a brass music group) and his six brothers; …